From jackoverfull@gmail.com Fri Nov 16 08:03:06 2012
Subject:Re: Too cute


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Il giorno 16/nov/2012, alle ore 15.04, "ccmacdon"
ha scritto:

> Bobby, thanks for posting that was fantastic!!!
>
> Yes it's likely that these young tykes will blow by all of is in a
> few short years!!! When I think back to my skill level at that age,
> it's like night and day..

Agreed…I wonder how would I play today if I had got up playing at
that age.
>
> However, when I was 12 (45 years ago) we didn't have the internet to
> turn to for chord charts,

Never used those. Not after realizing they are often wrong.

> and youtube videos demonstrating how to play virtually every song
> and lick that has ever been recorded.

Same as before.
> We didn't have the amazing slow-downer,

Actually my mother used to slow down tapes (and LPs? Not too sure
about those) to learn solos… of course she also had to transpose them
back in the original tonality afterwards!
> and neither did we have the ability to loop difficult passages with
> a click of a mouse (we were reaching for the record player and
> moving the needle over and over again).
>
> Makes me kind of wonder how good a player I might be today if I had
> these tools to help learn when I was younger (then again I also
> wonder how good I might have been if I had actually taken real music
> lessons, paid attention, and knew how to read music).
>
> It's both a wonderful time to be a musician, and the worst of times
> to be a musician.. There is so much available to budding musicians
> these days, so many tools to learn and experiment with, and so much
> sonic-potential that one person has with a computer and a midi
> keyboard! But at the same time, there's only select few artists (and
> not necessarily the most talented) that can actually make a living
> at it!!!
>
> It's wonderful that these kids have SO much available to them as
> they pursue their musical interests.. and SO sad that based on the
> music business today, chances are pretty slim that they'll ever be
> able to make a living at it.

The tools are neither bad or good IMHO, it's the way you use them that
makes the difference. Agreed on today's music industry: pure crap.