David Sides
Musical talent is relative.
If you can read sheet music but play in a Jazz improv band, reading music is irrelevant.
If you are a Jazz improvisationalist who can't read sheet music, yet play in a symphony, sucking will come naturally.
If you're Trent Reznor, but have no computers, you're probably not going to be recording or selling any albums.
If you're in an 80's band and can't afford a drum machine, everyone will think you're really just an unpopular 70's band.
Qualifying as a musician means only this: You can generate a series of sounds that someone else hears and likes enough to identify it as music. That's all. It requires someone else's opinion. If they like it, who cares what inherent or learned skills you have.
Someone calling themselves a musician is like making an art out of being an art critic; when really, they're just an artist. You can't be both the lead role and the audience at the same time.
If you can read sheet music but play in a Jazz improv band, reading music is irrelevant.
If you are a Jazz improvisationalist who can't read sheet music, yet play in a symphony, sucking will come naturally.
If you're Trent Reznor, but have no computers, you're probably not going to be recording or selling any albums.
If you're in an 80's band and can't afford a drum machine, everyone will think you're really just an unpopular 70's band.
Qualifying as a musician means only this: You can generate a series of sounds that someone else hears and likes enough to identify it as music. That's all. It requires someone else's opinion. If they like it, who cares what inherent or learned skills you have.
Someone calling themselves a musician is like making an art out of being an art critic; when really, they're just an artist. You can't be both the lead role and the audience at the same time.


