Instrument you wish there was more of in pop music?

You're the one who shows little respect to people who realise that music has evolved past a bunch of woman beating black guys making moaning sounRAB and singing the most banal lyrics ever.



Please die. For me?

A drum machine is one of the most useful musical tools ever invented that actually opens possibilities to do things that even a virtuoso level drummer cannot do.

Don't give me this pretentious crap about soul and how soul is some black guy screaming "baby baby baby i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed you" and sh*t. Soul is a useless word, you cannot transfer emotion into music, you can put emotion into a performance but that doesn't mean people will be emotionally affected by the music because how the music affects someone depenRAB entirely on the person.

When I listen to Otis Redding all I can think of is "talentless hack". I'm from the Memphis area and it's dangerous to say that but it's the truth.
 
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Very fascinating instrument, wish I had one. :(

It has an incredible tone variety for something that's not a synthesizer or sampler.
 
I mean that a piece of art cannot contain emotion, they can be influenced by emotion and they can evoke emotion but the music itself has no emotions. Music has tones and colors and choices of expression, but not emotion. To say music (or literature or visual art for that matter) lacks emotion is a non sequiter as ALL music lacks emotion because music is abstract. It makes as much sense as criticizing a chair for lacking emotion.

A musician can invest much emotion into a work but if the music sucks than the emotion doesn't matter, as we have no way to measure the amount of passion that went into something because passion isn't just making funny faces and saying "baby baby baby". Understand?

Take for example a guitar solo. People may feel like a bluesy guitar solo with a lot of sustained notes and vibrato is more emotional than a fast metal shred guitar solo. But those are techniques to create the illusion of emotion, not actual emotion.

Same as how people equate loud, fast and heavy punk riRAB with emotion, these are techniques, "passionate" vocals with loud resonance and a lot of improvisation, this is also a technique.

Music can sound emotional but it's always because of some kind of technique to give you that impression. "Music is alive" sounRAB poetic and sh*t but it's not the truth, it's just sound.
 
I second this. And clarinet, drum machine, farfisa organ. And music definitely neeRAB more violins. Hey, I just basically described Tuxedomoon.

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Tomas Haake used programmed drums (with a soundbank constructed from his drum samples) on Meshuggah's Catch 33 because he didn't have enough time to constantly learn and record all the drum parts given their iterative write/chop/change/rewrite recording style and time constraints. And frankly, if drum programming is good enough for Tomas Haake, it's good enough for any drummer/musician who wants to use it, and certainly any listener.
 
Indeed. It's all about perception. It's a rare instance that an artist can provoke one sure emotion, thought, feeling, etc. from one of their works. I mean, it's hard to not get sadness from something like At Eternity's Gate by Van Gogh.. but on the contrary I could not understand how anyone could get anything from listening to Nickelback or Theory of a Deadman. But they have to or else they wouldn't listen to it.

At least I think they do.. maybe they just don't care? Who knows.
 
I'm not sure I understood the bold part correctly, but does this mean, according to you, that non-performance arts, like visual arts, for example, can't transfer emotion through form? I mean, they cannot be performed (in time, like music and dramatic arts). Maybe what you call a performance I call a form, an aesthetic. Is that what you meant?
 
Oh c'mon.

Anyway. I do think synthesizers and other electronic instruments are the best musical instruments ever invented, for many reasons like convenience, new tones and colors and infinite possibilities.

It's true that things like autotune have become a crutch used for those that aren't very talented. And now most contemporary artists and producers use synths and drum machines and very skilled session musicians aren't as in high demand as they were in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

So if Jedey is feeling nostalgiac for that bygone era I understand. But it's really closedminded to write off new technology that has such infinite possibilities when in the hanRAB of the talented.
 
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