NinjaGeek
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I think he's a bit of an elitist. I know some people who are extremely passionate about music and are lyric based listeners, and I don't think I'd call them lazy.
But he does have some nice insights, I'm an extremely music based listener, rather than lyrics based listener, and I noticed that if someone only listens to lyrics, we have 0 musical common ground, but if they listen to the music I can almost always find at least 1 band (and probably many more) that we both like.
However, I don't agree with his opinion that you can tell how good a song is by simply playing it on the piano. This is sort of a theory elitist perspective, that timbre has no importance, and it's a simple minded one. It's also especially true when it comes to percussion, even though drums are tuned to a specific note, their overtone system is completely different from other instruments. And because our 12 tone scale isn't built with percussion in mind, percussion will sound differently.
If you take a piece of music for the xylophone and play it on the piano, they will sound very different, because the xylophone has a different set of overtones, so the consonance and dissonance will be different. Probably especially noticeable with chords involved.
But he does have some nice insights, I'm an extremely music based listener, rather than lyrics based listener, and I noticed that if someone only listens to lyrics, we have 0 musical common ground, but if they listen to the music I can almost always find at least 1 band (and probably many more) that we both like.
However, I don't agree with his opinion that you can tell how good a song is by simply playing it on the piano. This is sort of a theory elitist perspective, that timbre has no importance, and it's a simple minded one. It's also especially true when it comes to percussion, even though drums are tuned to a specific note, their overtone system is completely different from other instruments. And because our 12 tone scale isn't built with percussion in mind, percussion will sound differently.
If you take a piece of music for the xylophone and play it on the piano, they will sound very different, because the xylophone has a different set of overtones, so the consonance and dissonance will be different. Probably especially noticeable with chords involved.
