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Also the piano keyboard with its sequential step-increase in pitch left to right makes it far quicker to grasp concepts like intervals, and the difference between major and minor chords, as well as the more exotic variants of same, is as plain as day.

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Anyone remember these?

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They caused a huge furor when they first became adopted by bands like the Moody Blues, as real string players with their Luddite attitudes feared they'd be replaced by them.

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You'd think the venerable Akai S1000 would've made them shit their pants, then:

Not really what happened though. It's true that sampled/"virtual" instruments as of 2k17 can sound very realistic; you can record say a great drummer with thousands of dollars worth of equipment doing hundreds of different hits, record MIDI tracks of them playing riffs and fills, splice the samples and the MIDI together in various combinations and it's pretty uncanny but would probably never be mistaken for a real drummer's live recording to a discerning listener. Same for strings, brass, and woodwinds.

Electric rock guitar is very difficult to emulate, I don't know of any software that you can bang in the MIDI notes for a Hendrix tune and it will come out sounding like Hendrix. There's some software that makes attempts like for say rhythm guitar but they're usually quite limited.

Probably the result was just expansion of the number of songs recorded that contained a "string section." A bedroom musician recording at home can easily drop some strings in their song now so hey why not. Low budget films and movies probably have most of their score written on computer nowadays too, along with video games. Big budget productions will do the rough cut with the computer instruments before sending it to the orchestra.

It may have put _mediocre_ recording musicians out of work which is either a good or bad thing depending on whom you ask. There'll always be a market for live music though cuz very few people even here in the future will pay to see a computer play.

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How about IN the campfire? :)

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Michael A Terrell

Not bad. It has a jazzy vibe to it. These two YouTube players entertain me (YMMV):

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They're players in the sense of actors. Steve Vai plays guitar, of course, but if you pay close attention to the video you can hear Vai's guitar play itself after Vai's fingers come to a stop. Macchio also shreds his guitar while wearing a slide. There's a debonair black guy in the video who sits in the first row. He's wears an immaculately trimmed goatee, he doesn't wear glasses, and his suit has a purple tinge to it. That's Old Scratch at the crossroads.

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Its all about faking it :-)

I try to do phrasing, making up little tunes, rather than continuous shredding, principally, because its easier...

Yeah, just watched the full film last night, it so happens. Small world.

All movies generally record all the music in a studio and have the players mime it. It's too difficult to avoid mistakes in a live cut.

Its a really good solo by Via. Sort of inspired me to search out a midi file for it, to wit, Paganini Capriccio 5

Got the 1st few bars done.... Ahmmm...

Have a listen of this 10 year old:

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The reality is, things have really moved on in the last 50 years. Yngwie Malmsteen really started the neo/Paganini shit, Ritchie, Blackmore notwithstanding, which has been followed by 10000s

Only a few of the original guitarists like Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin Pat Metheny had formal music training. Like, the Stones were just a bar band that struck it lucky....

Today it is 10,000s coming out with Bachelors Degrees in guitar every year.

Like, have a listen to this tad older girl as well

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Ok, she is really, really good, but the deal is, there are huge numbers of other really good players on YouTube as well. From a world population of 7 Billion, it don't take much of a % to be swamped with 16 hour a day practisers all trying for their 15 mins of fame.

Glad I stuck to analog design. Its way, less competition, and way easier to be the best in the world, Jim Thomson not notwithstanding :-)

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Might as well take it up a notch:

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;-)

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;-)

I prefer the other maidens...something about the lack of a hairy chest...

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That works, too :-)

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Den onsdag den 6. december 2017 kl. 20.43.18 UTC+1 skrev Kevin Aylward:

how about some pretty maids ;)

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