10-23-2009, 06:29 PM
Thudz Wrote:There is more to music than Math, there is also Soul. One example is, there have been many very capable and talented guitarist since Hendrix that have attempted to duplicate his sound and although the notes may have been played perfectly it's just not the same.
In my opinion there are big differences between artists and performers. Artists create with heart and soul and what is produced is unmistakably non-reproducible. Performers play notes from paper leaving no distinguishable difference from one performer to the next.
I agree with you that people like Hendrix should be commended for doing something original.
Soul and music however is a myth. You can duplicate everything he did musically and if you weren't watching the performance no one would know the difference. While every musician has his/her unique properties, they can all be copied if that is really what you are looking to do.
The one thing to keep in mind with recorded music that can't be duplicated is sloppyness. Great guitarist like Satriani can't duplicate Hendrix because he is light years ahead of him in talent and doesn't make a ton of mistakes. These mistakes that were put on vinyl people listen to and get use to hearing them. This gives the impression that Hendrix is doing something Satriani can't. Actually it is the other way around. Ironically not even Hendrix could recreate it because most of the time you can only create mistakes once when you are a sloppy musician.
The only exception to the rules are the very elite.
Anyone on this board can learn to play 80% of the "popular" music played in the last 50 years with in a year of picking up a guitar, keyboard or drums. With in 3 years be able to master 99% of it.
However there is some music that no matter how much you practice on the very few can play it. Step outside of the popular styles to Jazz (Not inpromto) or classical and only very best of the best can actually pull it off. Your Hendrix example is not one of those that qualify.
Listen to this.
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The amount of pianist that could actually play this that live in the world today could probably counted on two hands. Most people could practice 8 hours a day the rest of there life and still would not be able to copy this.
Vllad