Anyone here play a musical instrument?

RogerWilco said:
Sure, free jazz and 20th century composers played a key role in this. But musicians always improvised, although with much tighter rules. Beethoven is said to have been able to improvise whole sonatas.
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I'm just messing with you, I enjoy free improvisation to a degree. Personally, I get more out of listening to someone find their way through a set of changes, in time, because it provides a little more context, but I dig this kind of thing as well.

You are right about composers being able to improvise though, it's not as if writing all of that music was really a laborious task for say, Bach.
 


Actually Bach was, let's say, a genius article writer with mad spinning skills. He wrote his ass off, he had to as this was his main (only?) income source. And he reused many elements of his music, this wasn't regarded as blatantly copying back then.

I also like structured music, free improvisation is just so liberating and you never know where it's going to take you, especially when playing with others.
 
RogerWilco said:
Actually Bach was, let's say, a genius article writer with mad spinning skills. He wrote his ass off, he had to as this was his main (only?) income source. And he reused many elements of his music, this wasn't regarded as blatantly copying back then.

I also like structured music, free improvisation is just so liberating and you never know where it's going to take you, especially when playing with others.
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I think you might be devaluing J.S. a little bit there, his grasp of harmony and counterpoint in particular was unmatched by any of his contemporaries and continues to inform the idiom to this day. Personally, I think he was the single most significant musician ever to walk the planet, followed closely by Charlie Parker.
 
Oh no, don't get me wrong, Bach was a genius. In fact he was so much of a genius that he could sell his music, make a living and support his family. How many classical composers do you know that were able to do this in their time, most of them were rich (albeit very talented) cocksuckers. All I'm saying is that this was his regular job, he might have been an even greater musician, if he had financial freedom (if that is even possible).
 
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Been playing Keys for years, some drums, tons of studio gear, even make my own VST's :)

Here's a lil' dubstep tune I made recently using my own shite: Actually if any producers are here that want these VST's hit me up I'll comp you.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKFwd9fVMwQ]DUBturbo VST Launch & Producer Contest $5000 - YouTube[/ame]
 
guitar/bass/drums/piano

wrote this song/created this vid:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAzrZCD65c&context=C4eeb0d1ADvjVQa1PpcFNKT02txnWKOvt142cYunTuF-Gi6iDM18E=&noredirect=1]The Dangers of NDAA & SOPA - YouTube[/ame]

also this
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wl0KnlWjac&feature=channel]Symphonic Drift - Uncertain Mind - YouTube[/ame]
 
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