I just went through and cleaned out all the /me/ and /b/ threads. From now on expect to be banned for them.

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>>1748
Can't we have a little fun without you showing up and ruining it.

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3. Piano, Guitar, Bass, Uke, Accordion, Theremin, Live Electronics, mandolin
4. Pursuing Bachelors of Music in Composition... highest theory course I have taken is a graduate course called "Advanced Post 1960s Analysis With a Focus On Postmodern Borrowing Practices" or something like that. Currently taking a less advanced set theory class. then again I do not believe in the existence of music theory ala Frederick Rzewksi.

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I started learning piano formally in fourth grade, but I was improvising with a Casio my aunt gave me in first grade. In fifth grade I started learning saxophone in band.

I have already mastered the piano.

I am pursuing a doctorate in composition, so more than you.

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Trumpet, 5th grade (10, i think)
Guitar
I know all my scales, and two years of music theory from my band conductor

>>2058
You did not look at the other half of the list; in that case.

Also a "black and white" distinction is warranted when the vast majority possesses a uniform fallacy.

>>2077
yes I did ya dingus.

>Deathclock- satirical made for TV death metal band
>Megadeth- heavy metal
>Black Murda (actually black merda)- afrocentric hard rock band from 70s

I enjoy arguing for the redemption of a genre I really dont' like at all though. I disagree with the second part of what you said... I see every band as making a specific statement that is articulated via a syntax of generic aggregation. That is... no band is purely a black metal band (periodization is the result of people writing ABOUT music). Instead, a bands language may be most indebted to something like black metal... but the nursery rhymes they heard as children, the rhythm of their favorite speakers voice, the music from their favorite computer game, a concert their dad took them to, the ring tone on their cell phone, all have unavoidable subconscious influence on their music. Not to mention other more obvious and outwardly stated generically transcendent influences. Honestly... I feel that there is no uniformity in a generic distinction like black metal... and in general black and white distinctions based on a system of easy organization created by critics and writers is really silly. I think most critics and writers agree with me... and take periodization with a grain of salt.

>>2082
>perhaps should I utilise a manner of linguistic contortion possessing superfluously extrapolated terminologies, the debating opponent will become henceforth intimidated; consequently relieving oneself of subsequent obligations to refute argumentative points as one has been doing for the chronological expanse so elapsed.

You really don't develop it. Decent relative pitch comes to everyone naturally after a couple of years of practice. The term perfect pitch is thrown around a lot, but there usually isn't a single person in a whole professional concert orchestra who actually has it to any useful extent. Also, the people who say they have it generally don't.

Perfect pitch is better. It's the same as relative pitch, just more precise. It might be considered more useful simply because it's something most people actually have a chance of developing, but I suppose it might make you feel more 'set' in certain keys...

I knew a vocal major who simply sang middle C then went up/down step by step until she found the note she had heard. That's how she passed her pitch recognition whatsits. She said it wasn't worth the effort.

Perfect pitch is a gimmick. Relative is all you need

Relative pitch it is then. I've heard it is more useful, but I thought it was better to ask. Funnily enough though, I know a lot of people with perfect pitch. You can play like 5-9 notes and they can say all of them.

It's kinda scary.

Thanks for all your help. Other than the website given, anybody else got anything?

Sadly, nothing plays in Peoria.

I live in Tulsa, so yes.

Dustin Pittsley Band
Leon Russel
Unwed Sailor
Tom Skinner Science Project


All sorts of stuff.

Youtube - Toggle Video

  Saw these guys when they first formed up.

It was only a matter of time before people capable of understanding music on a level higher than the superficial were called elitists.

I hate rap. I don't know why, I really shouldn't.

I listen to a lot of folk (hurhur particularly Bob Dylan) and Punk (not mainstream punk, that's not really my thing) and a lot of the time, it's a really basic background and them just speaking or whatever on top.

Okay, maybe not punk, but Tombstone Blues by Bob Dylan really comes to mind, where he's more or less saying the words rather than singing them. And I like that song.

So I imagine there can be/is good rap out there, I just haven't heard it yet.
M.I.A. sounds okay I guess though, but still.

Also oldschool hip hop is fun too.

What does it matter? Call a bucket a shit by any other name and it still smells like shit.

Melt-Banana, eh?

Can't say I'm a fan of Noise Rock, but I've heard Cell-Scape and thought some bits were pretty cool. What are your favourite kinds of music?

Maybe you're getting sick of it because it's not actually music that you like. Try expanding your horizons maybe?

Repetitive, leads nowhere, simplistic form, zero progression, feels like a partita performed on multiple instruments.

Knowledge of music theory isn't necessary to realize the lackings in that piece. Just music knowledge.

>>1935

It's true and you know it.

Extremely boring.

It made me imagine really fucking badly written Deathcore. You know, the sort that just goes, "CHUG-CHUG-CHUG-CHUG" for 3 minutes.

Yep, that's the Classical equivalent.