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Thankfully, it's slow enough that we get to enjoy some new gems. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axdNAyeLpcE
It's not as if there haven't been many forms of the "Rock Is Dead" rant for decades now. For instance, see producer ( cough "engineer" cough ) Steve Albini's diatribe on the subject from back in the early '90s, "The Problem With Music": http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17 Rock music has become more niche as the recording industry has moved away from the old model of AOR and LPs, where there would be a few goo…
When I started playing guitar, and took it seriously, my teachers always insisted to buy up and used, instead of something you can afford new. Now, with the salary of a software engineer, I still do it today.
When no one will buy a new car they have blowout sales on the lot. Perhaps that's what we're trying to force, here :) Sadly it doesn't work that way.
I think a large part of this might be the outlets that are available to the major introverts because of tech. All of the best guitarists I knew as a kid were major introverts who would lock themselves away and practice for large parts of the day. Kids that are like that have so many more options now.
Norman's Rare Guitars is a fantastic YT channel for us who still enjoy guitars [0]. Thanks $deity not all new generation is into electronic. I have great hope when listening bands like Greta Van Fleet (ages between 18-21 years old) [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/NormansRareGuitars/videos [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJg4OJxp-co
The article mentions Guitar Center's $1.6 billion debt, but doesn't say why it has so much. The instrument market is flat, and online is taking a bite, but all of that debt is from a leveraged buyout by Bain Capital.
I clicked because I was curious what number of strings guitars were all secretly switching to. Why include such a superfluous detail in that headline? The cynic in me thinks this just clickbait getting harder to identify.
When I was teaching guitar, the overarching trend I saw again and again, from the South the Midwest (so not a complete profile, but one large enough) was an interest in playing guitar but no real influences to latch onto. My first question to a prospective student was "who are some of your favorite bands?". With enough blank stares I changed it to "what is some of your favorite music" with equal stares. Kids (and adu…
Well for one, Bieber is doing quite a bit of guitar stuff these days. I've actually been surprised by the amount of very obvious guitar sounds in pop in the last ~12-18 months or so. Try your local top 40 station with fresh ears, it's really quite prevalent. You can argue about whether it's influential of course. Guitar isn't really being used in these songs in a way that carries the entire production, so tough to pl…
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I partly disagree. Access to endless information is great, on balance, but other things are equally important: hands-on tuition, peer feedback, competition. I think about folks like Lorde; she was writing fully formed, mature, and extremely competent, music at a ridiculously young age. I doubt it could have happened without tech. Kate Bush was 19 when she released Wuthering Heights (and had been writing for years bef…
"Kate Bush was 19 when she released Wuthering Heights (and had been writing for years before that)." I've been comparing Lorde to Kate Bush for ages now, so I agree with you on that comparison (and I'm a huge Stevie Wonder fan, including his childhood songs..."Up Tight", recorded when he was 15, is among my favorites to holler along with while cooking dinner). But...there's gonna be a lot more of those kids. I'd bet…
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Could it be that you're uneducated (which is fine, there's so much music produced nowadays that's hard to be educated in all niches) and listening to shitty electronic music that the mainstream industry is advertising endlessly to recycle the same formula again and again for cheap gains? Similar to shitty music like "The Archies - Sugar Sugar" or anything from The Ramones. There's an endless stream of shit music from…
How many people in the electronic genre could play Bach ? I mind no medium, no genre, nothing at all. If you give me something musical, even tapping on bamboo, or an old DX7 (see this demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3rrjQtQe5A , the pianos samples are dense, and the harmonies aren't dull) synth, I'd welcome it. The link you gave are not bad, but they lack soul, feel, weight. It's a common thing in electronic mu…
You should know that the first record of electronic music to be a hit record, was a record full of Bach music... by musician Walter Carlos (now Wendy Carlos).
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Really what you want to look at is sales of guitar strings as an indicator of how much guitar is being played.
Long-lasting alloys/coatings/technology will skew your results. Especially considering all they had back in the heydey was Nickel (soft). But that's a great idea!