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Old 08-04-2023, 02:24 PM   #93
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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale View Post
Are you 12? Is this what they teach in public school music class now?
No, just an adult with significant experience in the music industry.

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You're comparing the guy playing Zep covers in a bar in Calgary to "someone who can create music that people love." How many people are we talking about?
Just based on my own personal experience, probably the most technically proficient guitar player I know is a metalhead who doesn't even really play publicly anymore. And probably the best drummer I know plays in a crappy cover band. They both have pretty suspect taste in music and can't write good songs, so they never really went anywhere. Or my cousin who is a phenomenal classical musician who teaches high school band.

Whereas I know a bunch of people who are lesser musicians technically but who have been able to carve out successful multi-decade music careers playing original music. They're not household names or anything, but within their genres (mostly indie and folk music) they've been relatively successful (play to 2-3K people a night around the world, 1M+ monthly listeners on Spotify, etc.).
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