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Blah. Just wanted to express something that I find hard to analyze, and takes part in almost every moment of my life: I find myself thinking too much about music careers; specially about the fact of not having finished a music career in the past. Most of the times, I end up rambling around the idea that a music career would have been much more precise in vocational matters than my actual profession as a designer.
Does anyone here have "perfect pitch, aka "absolute pitch"? I discovered I had this special ability to recognize tones and to remember chords in specific tones quite some time after learning to play instruments by ear. I remember learning some beatles and creedence songs in guitar with 6 years old, without having a clue that the "correct" method was learning by sheet, and obviously ignoring there was something like "the perfect pitch".
In fact, my ability to learn by ear was a double-edged blade, simply because it ended up giving me a very hard time learning music theory and studying music the "traditional" way. It wasn't until I turned 13 that a teacher found out I had a special musical ear, and in fact could remember tones.
I begun with guitar solfa, then with drums, and finally with trombone when I turned 18. Never finished any, was simply too boring for me. I "felt" the music so intensely as not to give a fuck to theory, chords, music history, methods and all that shit.
A clear sign that this is an unresolved issue, is the fact that I do not have ANY instrument at home. My drums are in a friend's house, and I do not even have a toy guitar. Every time I play a guitar, an incontrollable feeling of "you suck, and you could've been sssoooo much better" invades me and I choose to pass it over.
- easy to get fixated on not being as good a player as the next... it takes all sorts to make good music. a good ear, taste and tact are more valuable traits.kingsteven
- the most motivated folks i work with don't even know what chords they're playing. and while perfect pitch is party trick territory. being able to identify whatskingsteven
- out in an arrangement and knowing how to fix it quickly (within your abilities as a player or directing others) in a better direction. that's the good shit!kingsteven
- i've had offers to play for established bands with good pay but side-musician never seemed like a career path. often think about going full time as producerkingsteven
- but know it would involve working on music i don't like + selling out as a designer is far easier on the soul!kingsteven
- Buy a drum machineautoflavour
- And ableton. Make mindless techno and be happy with the process and not productautoflavour
- These are really, really cool suggestions, thank you very much kingsteven & automaquito
- Dont make music if its not fun to do so.microkorg
- Seriously tho, get ableton and just start messing around. Drum machines are great if u got budgetautoflavour
- Or a nice sampler .. elektron digitakt are hella funautoflavour