swizzlenuts said:
Load,re-load were not bad for what they were. St.Anger on the other hand just plain out blows.
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Load,re-load were not bad for what they were. St.Anger on the other hand just plain out blows.
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Dodens Grav said:
what i'm saying is, i could pretty much come up with at least a handful of acts i enjoy from any given genre. i enjoy at least one power metal band (blind guardian), but i find most similar bands to be sub-par artistically. it's not the "sound" i dislike, it's the general lack of orginality/creativity in it's practitioners. but if i heard a really amazing power band i wouldn't deny them on the basis of their chosen style. talent is talent no matter how it is expressed.
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saying "i dont like this kind of music" is stupid. there is no exuse for not enjoying a band that is good.
and "good" is not an opinion, it's a measurement of ability.
and so on.
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1. and that's stupid.
2. in my experience, ability will always produce quality, and quality cannot exist without ability.
2. in my experience, ability will always produce quality, and quality cannot exist without ability.
Teh Grimace
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oh, i see were aren't talking about exactly the same thing.
though proficiency at one's instrument is usually pretty key to defining ability, i would consider extensive knowledge of music or being an experienced performer to also equate to it (ability).
though proficiency at one's instrument is usually pretty key to defining ability, i would consider extensive knowledge of music or being an experienced performer to also equate to it (ability).
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Not if you take into account that "theory" can and often will include a healthy appreciation of what is "unique" and what is, um, "not".
The reason most bands sound the same and are also crap is because they aren't trying to create anything, they're just immitating what they have heard before.
Theory knowledge allows someone writing a song to know how to keep the general "feel" of the style they are attempting, while augmenting it in some original way.
The reason most bands sound the same and are also crap is because they aren't trying to create anything, they're just immitating what they have heard before.
Theory knowledge allows someone writing a song to know how to keep the general "feel" of the style they are attempting, while augmenting it in some original way.
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Theory doesn't allow someone to do anything. It gives them the capacity to do so if they can apply it. Which is why application is more important. You can, theoretically, have the ability to create the most unique and amazing album created, but that doesn't mean you can harness the proper theoretical elements into a single body of work through application.
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Teh Grimarse said:
The most innovate and unique bands ever did not try to be that way, they just became like that. Sometimes they became like that by trying to play like their influences did, others by taking drugs etc etc.."musical theory" is overrated, it is the first thing that might put boundaries and rules and won't let the musician to present an expanded vision of what his inspiration dictates him. The thing is, if you have inspiration you rule, if you don't, you suck, that's it, no theories no special techniques etc.
By the way music is all about externalization of emotions, if you are successfull in that, you rock and your music will be loved by many.
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Listen to "Simian Hybrid Prototype" by Bodies In The Gears Of The Apparatus.
It's fucking awesome.
Come to the dark side.
It's fucking awesome.
Come to the dark side.
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