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Originally Posted by polak
The fact that you claim that it's just simple looping and "clicking to add a cymbal here and whatever there" tells me that you don't in fact have very much experience with electronic music production. Yes, you might not actually be hitting a cymbal or strumming a chord but a computer does not write a melody, or a chord progression or a beat. When you open up a new project file, guess what? It's blank. You put in every single note and sound and effect that is played. Yeah people use loops on occasion, but that is a skill that compliments the rest of the art. Not very many people get any where by just ripping off loops (it does happen on occasion though, and they are subsequently torn a part by the EDM world)
On top of writing every single aspect of a song - something most "musicians" couldn't dream of doing - Successful EDM producers need to also have expert level knowledge of mixing and mastering, sound design, synth design, FX design and placement and the technical knowledge that their software of choice requires. Again, these are things that most "musicians" don't have a clue about (hence the hired producers that even the biggest, most legendary bands work with).
To say that most EDM productions are "clicking this" and "looping that" is a slap in the face to all the people who use it as their art. I've been playing guitar for 6 years now and guess what, I find EDM production to be on a whole other planet in terms of musicianship.
But hey, playing a guitar is just putting your finger on a fret and strumming a string.
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you're right though, it does take talent to produce edm music.
just as it takes talent to play nhl14 at a high level.
that's why we all come to this forum right?
it's not to discuss boring old "analog" hockey is it?
also the fact that you put the word musicians in quotations is very telling for me,
seems like you have an adversarial approach to "musicians"
music is not a product either, it's an art form,
we shouldn't be thinking of it in terms of being a consumable, something to be pumped out, or produced.
"The manner in which Americans "consume" music has a lot to do with leaving
it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles,
like the score of a movie -- it's consumed that way without any regard for
how and why it was made." - Frank Zappa