I teach bass and piano at a school of rock type place and i have young kids mostly. Its great. But, nothing like when 7 out of 10 of my friends when i was a kid played an instrument though.
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My Band was Auditioned and ...
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A lot of people have no idea who different it is to play music/sing in your bedroom/basement/etc-even with friends watching and playing live before an audience.
I have seen people with great chops fall apart playing live in a band & people with adequate skills shine in the same setting.
Didn't read the whole thread, but what I did read made me think that.
And I'm someone who doesn't gig.
I plain a rotation at church--mostly bass & some guitar
And that is different than playing on your own.
I play with musicians in their teens & older than me-into their 60s/70s
If you listen to the others & play for the song & the group it will go better
When I taught we had opportunities for the students to perform solo/duets and bands before audiences when we had the chance (& some were iffy, like the watermark with lots of distraction for the teenaged male students as well as high humidity)
But it helped them develop & improve.
I wish I had more chances to play with others.
I have seen people with great chops fall apart playing live in a band & people with adequate skills shine in the same setting.
Didn't read the whole thread, but what I did read made me think that.
And I'm someone who doesn't gig.
I plain a rotation at church--mostly bass & some guitar
And that is different than playing on your own.
I play with musicians in their teens & older than me-into their 60s/70s
If you listen to the others & play for the song & the group it will go better
When I taught we had opportunities for the students to perform solo/duets and bands before audiences when we had the chance (& some were iffy, like the watermark with lots of distraction for the teenaged male students as well as high humidity)
But it helped them develop & improve.
I wish I had more chances to play with others.
I like these guys, older backing band and younger vocalists, they even have a sense of humor in their name. I bet they do great in corporate gigs.
I stand corrected, I thought she'd been discovered in a talent competition (not on TV).
From her Wikipedia article:
"In early 1988, she recorded an impromptu cover of Anita Baker's "Caught Up in the Rapture" at a recording booth in the Galleria Mall in White Plains, New York. Her mother's boyfriend at the time later played the cassette for Jeff Redd, a recording artist and A&R runner for Uptown Records. Redd sent it to the president and CEO of the label, Andre Harrell. Harrell met with Blige and in 1989 she was signed to the label as a backup vocalist for artists such as Father MC, becoming the company's youngest and first female artist."
Then, I had to refresh my memory on which song was "Caught Up in the Rapture", and the bass on it is nice!
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Well this is a completely ignorant comment. Go ahead make a trap beat in garage band mumble over it and become a success. We will wait.
Nice try at a cheap shot, but no, that was already going on before boomers had any serious say in the matter.
It’s as if people think funding was that great to begin with. Aside from specialized schools, any other place with good music funding usually was and is funded by the booster club.
I am all for more funding. I’m against blaming folks for something that’s not their fault.
Yet another session of the endless Blame-A-Boomer drinking game? I don't think I've got enough tequila in the house for that - only two bottles.
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I read an essay a few months back on salon.com that essentially blamed baby-boomers for the invention of slavery, for Jim Crow, and for World War II.
BTW, there was almost zero funding for any arts program in schools when and where I grew up. Football - yes!! Music - not much.
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This is basically true. Much pop music now is all programmed and has been for a long time. I met a young kid a couple of years ago and when I told him I was a musician he looked at me and said “oh so you make beats?” I said no I play an instrument and I’m in a band. He literally had no idea what I was talking about. That’s the majority of music to the younger generation. The majority of youth want to be rappers or DJ’s or be on The Voice. Learning an instrument is like not even a thought to them. Trust me it’s a bitter pill to swallow realizing your just an old dinosaur to them. Just my observations being around a lot of young people .
Yes, "Indie Girl Voice"! Someone names it! I'm definitely going to be using that when I describe vocal-stylings-I-hate from now on!
I've just been calling it "Can't someone give that girl a cup of strong coffee?" but that's not nearly concise enough. One does occasionally wish for a singer in the mold of Ethel Merman or even Cass Elliott, but all we get is Indie Girl Voice. I know that this, too, shall pass, but that knowledge fills me more with dread than with eager anticipation.
You know that "Boomers" isn't a political party right? Because saying "Boomers" cut funding for music education in schools doesn't make any sense.
I went to school in the early 70's. If you had one music class offered to the entire school you were fortunate. The arts have always been underfunded, long before there were boomers. Facts are your friends!
It really seems to have depended on where you grew up. We had pretty strong music curricula in our schools in the 70's, music classes daily throughout grades 1-6 and supported band programs in the upper grades. I didn't participate much in the extracurricular programs but learned a fair bit when I was in the lower grades, before it became optional.
Looks like the OP jumped ship once the thread took a turn, that I'm guessing, he didn't anticipate.I would just really like to know how this played out, and if the band still has the gig.
