T. Successful musicians who can't play an instrument
do you mean artistically successful? I'm pretty sure if you mean commercially successful that would include every major pop artist for the last 3 decades. It would be rather tedious to mention them all.
Synthesizer is an instrument :)
>Rich
>Artistically successful
Choose one
youtube.com
Isn’t Avril 14th played on a real piano?
yeah but it was following some music sheet generated on a computer or some shit
why has this entire board suddenly just turned on aphex twin?
Ozzy
Playing one slow undemanding song =/= able to confidently play the instrument.
musician? more like an autistic babbler
That's it. I'm throwing out my Aphex Twin collection.
ear training and theory.
>synths aren't instruments
Holy pleb
Gaysex Twink
Rap as a whole (some exceptions, such as Lil Wayne, Mac Miller, and Andre 3000)
I thought he was French. Why did I think he was French? Is this one of them mandela effects?
Woah, Satanic trips of truth.
Just because you play an instrument doesn't make you a musician. Stop saying that.
Michael Jackson
Elvis
based
Why not?
So what's a better version of him ?
I must marry this woman.
>Elvis
He played guitar
based Based BASED
>I COMPOSED OVER 30.000 EXPERIMENTAL IDM TRACKS AND STILL NOBODY LIKES ME ON THE INTERNET, BUT THATS OK FOR ME
>I DON'T NEED FANS. HATE IS OK FOR ME
skrillex
Plaid or Squarepusher. I hear Autechre is good but I never got around to listening to much of his music.
Still it is an instrument and the question was about artists who don't play instruments and not whether we should call someone an artist.
sadly any and all pop artists
hint: they cant write music either
Do you mean all popular music or just top 40 pop?
i mean the genera of pop music for example britany spears
Well The Beatles played their own instruments and wrote their won songs
I like Autechre Squarepusher and Aphex Twin, wouldn't quite understand why Aphex Twin is under them
the beatles where rock not pop
you're a fucking braindead imbecile if you take that as a sample to prove his discography is somehow bad.
Also, he played a custom violin on some of his tracks, to sample chords probably. He probably plays a lot of chords by hand as well. He's more of a programmer than a performer. That's why I like him, he's like me I suppose. Not that I'm claiming to be anywhere near his genius though.
I think he used a Disklavier, sending midi notes.
So a song like "Penny Lane" or "Yesterday" is rock?
he can play the piano
vocals are an instrument
elvis played the guitar but he was even better at playing the piano
>Logan Rock Witch again
What have I started
OMG custom violin
Not even a bad track desu really
It's not, I just posted it once in a söyphex thread and I've been seeing it showing up consistently ever since
yes all pop is shit
>basedthex thread
full of shit
Why is it shit?
I am 21 and a friend of mine who's my age went to his brooklyn concert. He literally said that it was only about 35 to 40 years old basedboys. Dunno what happened but it would seem odd that the rave kids turned into this.
its generic meaningless garbage
S O Y BOYS fuck the filters
>its generic meaningless garbage
How so? Both songs have a meaning and there's not much that sounded like ti at the time.
Martin Garrix
Squarepusher is an excellent bassist. When you're a bassist you have more theoretical sense (even just ingrained) than anyone except a pianist. In general things like voice leading in chord progressions are better on Plaid tracks than Aphex Twin ones.
i said both of those songs where rock did you lose the plot that badly?
Eh. They were a pop band with some rock ideas thrown in.
>Squarepusher is an excellent bassist
You mean the reason why his newer records went to shit?
>voice leading in chord progression are better on Plaid
>yfw
Meaning doesn’t have that much value in art.
>implying you know fuck all about theory
christ, I know this is bait but the more the pseuds on this board hate richard the more I love him. also theory =/= musicality
based
Post an example then user, I'm ready to have a good laugh
The bridge in this is nonsense crap keyboard mashing. I keep posting Logan Rock Witch for a reason. It sucks, even in terms of production.
That's not example user, but go on I'm sure an idm expert such as yourself that hasn't even listened to autechre sure has an important opinion
You said they were shit
Just call me a general music expert please. My classical training applies to all musical disciplines.
No, I know exactly why he made those tracks. There's a lot more behind those sounds than you might experience.
Theres always some kind of abstract sentiment, experience, idea or emotion. Intricate rhythms, sounds playing off eachother etc.
You need a better set of ears, thats all
no YOU need a better set of ears. I'm about as interested in the autistic, aurally meaningless ideas that guide Richard D James music making as I am with the equally inept processes of John Cage.
You're just making shit up, aren't you?
Shut up
>music expert
>hasn't listened to autechre
Lady Gaga is a comercially successful pop artist, and she knows how to play the piano, the guitar and I'm pretty sure I have seen a video or two of her paying drums
>John Cage
>Inept
Climb out of this hole you dug, user
Yeah I was worried about this response. But at any rate those abilities definitely have nothing to do with her success.
Climb out of John Cage's gaping asshole, you gullible queer.
Fuck you John Cage is based!
Yep that's what an npc would say.
>John Cage revolutionized music by making us question the very meaning of music. This was important for some reason
>No I don't have any John Cage in my playlist, what does that have to do with anything?
>having a playlist
Ur way too conservative about music.
Taylor Swift has done some 'unplugged' performances. But she isn't known for her instrumentalist skills.
Why would I actually go out of my way to listen to some shitty music just because some Jews told me to do it?
k
you're thinking of Daft Cunts
Yeah, exactly.
Lol, you just had to have the last reply didn't you?
Yes. Now stop (you)ing me and let me have this.
>I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The Youth, which is electronic music, and a young boy’s voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with the nigger music, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.
Was he fair to Richard?
based and rp
>Stockhausen dropping N-bombs
He was based this whole time
>nigger music
lol
Richards respond: Mental! I’ve heard that track before, I like it. I didn’t agree with him. I thought he should listen to couple of tracks of mine: Didgeridoo, then he’d stop making abstract, random patterns you can’t dance to. Do you reckon he can dance? You could dance to Song Of The Youth, but it hasn’t got a groove in it, there’s no bassline. I know it was probably made in the 50s, but I’ve got plenty of wicked percussion records made in the 50s that are awesome to dance to. And they’ve got basslines. I could remix it. I don’t know about making it better; I wouldn’t want to make it into a dance version, but I could probably make it a bit more anally technical. But I’m sure he could these days, because tape is really slow. I used to do things like that with tape, but it does take forever, and I’d never do anything like that again with tape. Once you’ve got your computer sorted out, it pisses all over stuff like that, you can do stuff so fast. It has a different sound, but a bit more anal.
I haven’t heard anything new by him; the last thing was a vocal record, Stimmung, and I didn’t really like that. Would I take his comments to heart? The ideal thing would be to meet him in a room and have a wicked discussion. For all I know, he could be taking the piss. It’s a bit hard to have a discussion with someone via other people.
I don’t think I care about what he thinks. It is interesting, but it’s disappointing because you’d imagine he’d say that anyway. It wasn’t anything surprising. I don’t know anything about the guy, but I expected him to have that sort of attitude. Loops are good to dance to…
He should hang out with me any my mates: that would be a laugh. I’d be quite into having him round.
>muh dancing
Nigger talk
>music theory
Adorno would want you shot for using that photo of him next to such disgusting language.
Brian Wilson can't play instruments so well anymore because all the psych meds Eugene Landy injected him with gave him tardive dyskinesia.
stockhausen should have probably listened to drukqs
mac milar
"music theory"....loool
anyone got this image without the watermark?
>vocals are an instrument
Literally anyone can sing