General Music Chat

If I hear one more of these tunes that pass for R&B with some tone deaf little puke singing through one of these robot sounding boxes I'm gonna use the 38 caliber "Elvis remote control" on the radio. AARRGGHHH!!

it certainly does kill that whole separation of the cream of the crop.

If I had my way, garage band would also be victim of your remote control...

Very true. Not only do you not have to be able to write your own music or play an instrument, you don't even have to know how to sing anymore. It's stupid.

Hell guys it's nothing new. There is prolly not one top 40 pop tart not "singing" through a computer program.

As my dear ol Father is fond of saying.
Top right hand button son. (turn the crap off)

A musician friend of mine had an audition for a lead guitarist and some dude showed up without a guitar and amp. He told them he didn't need a guitar since he had been playing Guitar Hero on his computer! I'm not kidding. This guy was serious! Maybe eventually computerized music will do away with real musicinas.

Itsa Depressing/ My stepson wanted to get guitar hero for me at xmas/depressing.

You want to hear something interesting F.B.. I work at a major university here in Houston in the engineering department I work with professors all day and one I met with today in Electrical Engineering is developing a guitar with a microprocessor in the body and electrodes in the neck so that when you place your fingers over the neck and strum where the strings would be it makes that tone and Viola! you are playing a guitar with no strings.

hmm, doesnt sound like a musical instrument to me..
can you get harmonics on it?

guitar hero. well, you dont have to learn how to play, but there's also no real adrenaline rush when you finish a tight set and have 'that' feeling..
-or maybe they do- it's just simulated..like taking lortab for a "false sense of well-being" (from the warning on the bottle).. who knows, who cares.. its a nother fckin video-game..

back to Dajax's topic- which song pissed U off? gotta link so we can hear?
I agree with your topic it needs to die.
Maybe the music of the future is all gonna be played by robots..

Frankly, what REALLY pisses me off the most about guitar hero and rock band is that when I go to look up a music video on youtube to learn a song or just listen.. I get 10,000 results of people who videotaped themselves playing that song on one of those video games...

It's the lamest thing I've ever seen. Who cares what song some kid clicked 15,000 buttons to win a false reward? Really.

Gaming, especially party gaming, has gone mainstream now. It's not uncommon, and I think it's safe to say that it's here to stay. While it is impressive to play through those hard Guitar Hero songs on Expert level, it is a completely useless talent that won't likely get them anything save a few pats on the back.

Regardless, anyone remember the saying "Drum machines have no soul"? I don't think robots are going replace us as musicians until we figure out how to endow a soul upon non-sentient things. Something tells me we're a bit off from that. What we need to combat the growing garbage pile is more music education. Preventing more people from falling into that trap will hopefully give them a tendency toward music more "real."

As my dear ol Father is fond of saying.
Top right hand button son. (turn the crap off)

LMFAO

you tell em Pop!

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a young hip hop/R&B artist contacted me and asked me to critique his work. I told him that he was very talented and real in his approach to his music, but if he really wanted to stand out he would have to go deeper that the usual thug life lyrics of gansta rap that has been burned out for a good 5 years now....

The fact is, I was probably completely wrong about that!
the industry seems to be willing to ride their horses till they drop.
If someone comes out with something fresh that demands the attention of the industry and listeners, they'll sign and support every act that copies them untill the very end and, push other talented artist's to the side until they're forced to look for another mule!

Sadly we may be hearing C3PO R&B for a few years!

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http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/6039/
http://bandmix.com/hayden-king/
hayden_king2000 on yahoo messenger

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"oh for the days when originality was appreciated"

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Guitar Hero is to guitarist wannabes what Karaoke is to singing wannabes, only less. At least the karaoke idjits really ARE singing, whereas the vid game players are doing very little in relation to what a guitarist or drummer or bassist actually does.

I've found that ppl who come from the vid game background tend to think that guitar is pretty easy to play, until they start to develop the callous' prerequisite blisters. Then they usually quit. That's pretty funny when I think about how I gave up vid games cuz they gave me blisters & hand cramps without having that sense of accomplishment I get from actually playing an instrument.

Haha, I've been a gamer longer than I've been playing music. I started when I was two lol

Yet still, I've never had a problem with someone like Bob's friend did. Of course, I include "some knowledge in music theory" in audition postings.