"Play C-Major"

[Symphon]

This isn't the thread for that, guys.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

^ that. Can we not talk about 'who works hardest' or 'who doesn't share their knowledge as much as we'd like'?

[Gray Ham]

Just the usual "wind > percussion" or "trumpet > violin/flute/saxophone".

[FLAOFEI]

Well sadly I dont have many people with any real knowlege of music to argue with :/ So I get these moments more than I want to.

Im in a sort of a small school band, where I as the drummer am the only one who has any extensive experience. I have played drumms since 5 years old, and have been takeing it seriously at least the last 2 or 3 years - I know what im doing. Our piano player is pretty good, he can play (a few songs on) the piano very well. Our bassplayer couldnt play until he joined the band. And our singer thinks he can sing bohemian rapsody good... Not a very serious band... but it is a school band thing... so...

So we where practiceing a song when suddenly... Singer stops and says the piano is on the wrong chord in the progresion. They argue over it, both blameing the other one. The singer asks me what I think. I didnt hear who did wrong! Drumms are fucking loud! I say we go again and I'll listen what I think. I say the singer did wrong and skipped 2 beats of paus. He dosnt agree. We try again. He dose it right. It sounds good. He complains that it sounds bad. The rest of the band, includeing me dissagree. He insists hes way is better because thats what was in the "original". We try to explain we dont care what the original was if our version was better. His stubbornnes costs us probably about 3 h total of practice (not to mantion the fun we could have had in that time).

Another time he got the idea of transposeing a bass guitar instead of learning to play a song in the corect key! IT WAS A SCHOOL BASS!!!

Another time he said I was better at drumming than an other person caus I could drumm faster. Then I told him that how good you are cant be judged on how fast you can play only, perhaps if you take timeing, precision and ability to improvise in to concideration, but not souley on speed. Then he changed his mind and said I wasnt that good. Oh THE NERV!!! To get him to understand how much fucking better I am than him I let him try... My eardrumms regretted that. He uses a tom instead of the kick, the kick instead of the hat, and allthough thats creative enough, he dose it bad and thinks hes good. I dont have the heart to tell him he sucks even for a beginer.

Another time another group was better because they played a different genre.

Its sad hes the only person I know who listens to speedcore :'( He likes it caus its fast... And sure thats fun from time to time... But just for the speed... Sad.

Another time he implied that people play speedcore, as in sit down at a drumkit and play the kick at 1000 BPM... He said I could play [insert speedcore tune here] if I could play at ___ BPM. Now sure, I have had the idea of seting up a digital drumkit with speedcorekicks and play marching band style on it, but NO! One dose not PLAY SPEEDCORE D:<

He allso thinks faster music is harder, with no reguard to complexity of the melody or anything...

I could keep on going... but I dont have time.
Ill probably add more about him later
(I hope he finds this, I dont have the heart to tell him upfront how anoying he can be)

[Symphon]

Hahahahahahahano

You'd think she'd get the point, but she's extremely stubborn and hot-headed. I tried to explain to her music theory, and she said, and I quote, "You don't know anything about music. Go back to making your stupid techno." :I

[Symphon]

I used to play in a stupid little rock band with some friends of mine and, as one could expect, our lead singer was a narcissistic schlong-gobbler.

He absolutely refused to learn music theory no matter how much I tried to teach him. He played guitar, but was barely talented enough to play the chords (those of which I had to teach him, while simultaneously having to write all the songs because he didn't even know tableture...)


XD i'm glad i'm not in that band anymore, but in spite of the fact that he didn't know any of this stuff he still thought he was a "better musician"... whatever that means. He was also a terrible singer and he had sausage fingers... so he wasn't very good at the guitar anyways.[/quote]

It always does seem like the ones that refuse to learn anything new about what they're doing find themselves superior to most other people in that field. Kinda sad, really. That exactly lack of wanting to absorb more knowledge is exactly what makes them inferior, to be completely honest.

[Acrylia]

Probably about Skrillex honestly, whether it's "real dubstep" or whatever, or my opinions on him or what he does and all that junk. And in that regard, here is my stance:

While I don't believe that he deserves all the fame he's gotten, as his production values are mediocre at best, I will give him a few things: he brought electronic music into the mainstream once again, and I'll be damned if some of his songs aren't catchy. Freaking Bangarang is stuck in my head forever. In regard to genre; while I don't think of him as "real" dubstep, I acknowledge that genres evolve over time, unlike some "dubstep purists" who believe that the only real dubstep came from the early 2000s in what is considered grime and such. Dubstep has evolved into something very different than it was when it began like pretty much every other genre of music has gone through that people have been upset with: rock, metal, house, even folk and classical. I mean, classical went through so many changes in composition and theme that they needed different periods to classify them.

Okay, sorry for long and poorly thought out post.

[Nine Volt]

Probably about Skrillex honestly, whether it's "real dubstep" or whatever, or my opinions on him or what he does and all that junk. And in that regard, here is my stance:

While I don't believe that he deserves all the fame he's gotten, as his production values are mediocre at best, I will give him a few things: he brought electronic music into the mainstream once again, and I'll be damned if some of his songs aren't catchy. Freaking Bangarang is stuck in my head forever. In regard to genre; while I don't think of him as "real" dubstep, I acknowledge that genres evolve over time, unlike some "dubstep purists" who believe that the only real dubstep came from the early 2000s in what is considered grime and such. Dubstep has evolved into something very different than it was when it began like pretty much every other genre of music has gone through that people have been upset with: rock, metal, house, even folk and classical. I mean, classical went through so many changes in composition and theme that they needed different periods to classify them.

Okay, sorry for long and poorly thought out post.

Technically dubstep originated in the late 1990s.

But I will have to respectfully disagree with your opinion on Skrillex, although it is true that people have differing opinions.

[topitmunkeydog]

I don't know about "real dubstep" or not but I can say that I don't like Skrillex just because I don't find his music pleasant to listen to. And although EDM is not my favorite genre of music, I do enjoy a good dubstep song once in a while. Skrillex lacks the agressive attitude that is essentially the sole reason I would choose to listen to a dubstep track. And because of the popularity he has, he essentially composes what the masses want to hear.
And, he has the worst haircut I have ever seen! D:

[Pewter Robot]

Genres. Not on youtube though, in real life. I don't really talk about music much in real life though, despite how much time I spend on it.

I don't talk about music in real life much either because quite honestly, everyone elses music preferences differ from mine (I have not met one person who likes Drum & Bass, or even knows what it is).

This is why I want to move to Europe.

There's one guy I know who likes breakbeat, IDM, tech death, grindcore, noise, etc.

I love actually knowing other hipsters IRL.

[Watashig]

It always does seem like the ones that refuse to learn anything new about what they're doing find themselves superior to most other people in that field. Kinda sad, really. That exactly lack of wanting to absorb more knowledge is exactly what makes them inferior, to be completely honest.

Read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect! It describes exactly what that's like! I had my fair share of people like this back when I played WoW, yeah. It's really interesting!

[ghelded_kultz]

It always does seem like the ones that refuse to learn anything new about what they're doing find themselves superior to most other people in that field. Kinda sad, really. That exactly lack of wanting to absorb more knowledge is exactly what makes them inferior, to be completely honest.

Read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect! It describes exactly what that's like! I had my fair share of people like this back when I played WoW, yeah. It's really interesting!

Hmmm, sort of sounds like me. Nah...

I love actually knowing other hipsters IRL.

You must know more interesting hipsters than me.