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jamieevren1210
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15 Apr 2012, 8:30 am

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Unemotional acting is a large issue for me as well jamieevren1210, But I don't do acting so it's not a big issue for me.

Also I have another one to add: guitar. Recently picked up guitar again and found my rhythm skills are very good. Lead parts not as much, but only some like lead guitar playing I imagine.

$9,000 dollars for a good quality instrument is insane to me, well crafted or not. The most expensive thing I'm looking at is a $1,900 6 string Musicman bass, buit that's absolutely top quality and plays everything perfectly. I imagine a superb set of 3 octave bells would be ungodly expensive...guess that's why you always have a few people, so that the costs are split :lol:



Oh, I mean except when I'm acting, I am a bit of a machine. :D


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17 Apr 2012, 9:29 am

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Same here. I started playing chess, and within a year I was playing at the level of people who had been playing for 5 years. And this is only one example, it happens with just about everything that doesn't involve socializing.


that was my experience, though (as much as i love music) i've had to accept the fact that i don't have the talent for making sounds people want to listen to...tuneless, arrhythmic, harsh; i imagine a culture that valued being able to make things as unlike what was made before, as possible. but that's not what music is--or art either--really.


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17 Apr 2012, 2:40 pm

graywyvern wrote:
i've had to accept the fact that i don't have the talent for making sounds people want to listen to...tuneless, arrhythmic, harsh; i imagine a culture that valued being able to make things as unlike what was made before, as possible. but that's not what music is--or art either--really.

That's an interesting perspective to me. I'm not exactly sure what you mean--do you mean that the sounds you make are tuneless, arrhythmic, and harsh, or did you mean that those are the kinds of sounds people want to listen to? I tend to think that people generally prefer a gentle melodic contour and regular, steady rhythms. People often say of classical music that it "doesn't have a beat." Well, it DOES have a beat. But composers never limited themselves by making all of their music adhere to a consistent tempo. There is a certain freedom of tempi within reasonable aesthetic boundaries. Contemporary pop styles, even recent developments in rock music, tend to stick to a predetermined tempo with an almost mechanical feel. With more rock and metal acts using click tracks and overdubbed guitars, loops, and vocal tracks in live performance, it's increasingly rare to experience much variance in tempo except towards the end of a song. Art music and probably most non-commercial music will tend to be more rhythmically fluid.

I'm attracted to things that have those qualities--arhythmic, tuneless, and harsh. It doesn't mean that I CAN'T write rhythmically, that I can't write melodies, or that I can't write for warmer acoustic instrument kinds of sounds. I just prefer bright and even metallic sounds. I don't feel that I have to write everything in 4/4 meter. I like the freedom to express myself how I like in a wide variety of ways, and that often means the end result isn't what most people would consider "beautiful." Life is full of horror and dread side-by-side with beauty and anticipation. Individual expression should reflect what the individual sees, for better or for worse.