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Originally Posted by smopo24
or, it could just result in people becoming djs instead and making more bad techno! in theory i agree, but how many songs (classic or modern) came from theft; obvious or not. i gather that you mean for people to try to create music free from influence possibly? that's impossible unless you have lived in a bubble your whole life. sure, too many people try to play like eddie van halen, the beatles, pavement; but some people just want to play their songs and not compose....for them, there's tab. i can't read music, and neither can a lot of people, so it helps.
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Originally Posted by smopo24
or, it could just result in people becoming djs instead and making more bad techno! in theory i agree, but how many songs (classic or modern) came from theft; obvious or not. i gather that you mean for people to try to create music free from influence possibly? that's impossible unless you have lived in a bubble your whole life. sure, too many people try to play like eddie van halen, the beatles, pavement; but some people just want to play their songs and not compose....for them, there's tab. i can't read music, and neither can a lot of people, so it helps.
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Free from influence: Putting it in guitar/bass terms...
Probably everyone here knows that feeling when you "come up" with a riff that you like, a riff that carries your idiosyncracies, something that you can call your own. And when you can mate that riff with the other riff or two of yours that forms a song, that excitement just builds. (I bet that feeling is the central reason so many people cling to the process of making original music when the activity can be so costly. I know it's why I do, anyway.)
Now, I can produce all kinds of viable songs if I surgically looted bars from songs and strung them together. But that feeling won't be there. And for better or for worse, that feeling is all I care about, really.
I don't claim to be free from influence. I grant that a progression or pedal point or tied note or whatever may have come from any part of the thousands and thousands of hours of music I have abosrbed. Indeed I have noticed sometimes years later that I briefly quoted Debussy or the Who. But the important point is: I didn't do it on purpose. I'm not free of influence, but I am free of dishonorable intent. After all, the creation of the material - even if later it turns out to be in part re-creation - is just about the only completely satisfying aspect of music to me.
I have never even considered being in a band whose job was to cover material, nor have I ever seriously thought using samples of records was a good idea. For me, that's a waste of time and waste of self -- which is why it's a good thing I never considered making music as a career.
Tabs have been helpful if I wanted to cobble together the occasional cover version of something. Short of that, if Olga were killed off, it wouldn't affect me personally very much, even though I hope they stick around because tabs have their uses as research tools.
-r