Mokey

I dunno? I mean it doesnt have to be jazz, just some sort of improvised music as the foundation for learning.

You wouldnt be the same person you are now if you grew up in later stage socialism

I think if youre doing music in a vacuum of a class or private tutoring youre doing it wrong, if you still dont like it after that you should be able to opt out.

I think in a socialist world your taste would be different, not that you wouldnt like punk but i think wed all just have very different tastes.

My ideal music world described by what I don't like already.

I believe what music would look like and how we perceive it is drastically different from what we have now. If you look at Black Church, rich white kid grade school and Venezuela El Sistema and the kind of musicians they produce, in a late stage socialist world, we could have the entire world operated like that. Understanding what those three things are paramount to understanding what I'm talking about below.

Musical Literacy: In my opinion, music is a language and the fact that most of us don't speak or read it is because our society wastes our time serving our bourgeoisie rulers. I don't think music is actually that hard- but stripped of community and common-sense education it becomes hard. In my ideal world, children learn music young and start in musical groups early as to understand why theyre playing music, what theyre doing when playing music and give feedback as to provide understanding. Everyone is provided an hour lesson a week or some sort of group lesson is provided.

Money in Music: Mankind has superceded the need for money, no one is chasing money anymore and the power imbalances that money causes in music is severed. There are no longer a legion of rich white kids who play black music, everyone plays it. Jazz becomes a fundamental building block to learning and understanding music. The lack of money in the industry doesnt chase off people who would otherwise stick around forever. Having excess money no longer means you crowd out other people since the facilities, time and resources you have at your disposal is now shared by everyone else.

Gigging: No one makes money from music because the world is later stages of socialism. No one cares if you're exceptionally good anymore since there would be so many people who are good at music. There will always be people who are at the top of the field, but the cultural inportance would shift to everyone participating opposed to who has the most chops and has the best gigs.

Practicing: I love practicing, what I don't like is that I feel like my practice is catch up for something I should already have. In my ideal world, we are all proficient musicians around early teenage years from sheer immersion and utilizing the sponginess of our young brains. This would free up our time in our later years to be diversified in other instruments, other styles of music, composing and also just real life. Maybe I just play guitar, compose and my sidejob is assisting the clean up of the excesses of capitalism. Maybe I spend more time socializing and communing with music. Maybe I spend more time with my family.

Hero Worship: While again there will always be outliers regarding skill, I think gulf between them and the rest of us becomes dramatically smaller. We as a society understand that people are products of their material circumstances and don't place as much value on the vainglorious and narcisisstic musician we enshrine today. The value is instead placed on community and making sure everyone is involved. No one would really care if you could play amazingly because most people would be at a high level anyway.

Taste: Since we are all playing music, taste would dramatically shift. I never hated an orchestral peice that I participated and played in. However, I've been massively bored listening to a symphony for the first time with no personal context. I think if we're all playing this kind of music and literacy is more promoted, what people generally like would change drastically and things that arent as appreciated would be more appreciated. Especially cross culturally.

There's more but this is off the top of my head. Too bad I live in hell.

i cant exist anywhere else

when they put the hat on me the hat was like "lmao" and they sent me home

Went to a jam session last night.

It was a college kid jam, very hip place. Everyone was early 20s. I felt old.

The wunderkid was hosting the session, he's really good but I realized his technique isn't amazing like I thought it was. The house set was pretty good, he was too loud at times but whatever. I like him, he's a nice kid and he sounds great.

I played two songs, Alone Together and Skylark. I don't know Skylark, the pianist didn't know Skylark, the bass player was reading a lead sheet. No one knew Skylark and we played Skylark. lol

Comparatively to the house drummer kid, he's more expressive, he has more knowledge about the music and has more vocabulary. I'm more consistent, i play more for the musicians i'm with and I have more technical control. I think he's better than me for sure but maybe one day I'll get better than him.

I'm about to finish up my technical studies, i've been plugging away for a few years now. I can play a 32nd note grid single stroke roll at 140+ bpm. I studied rebound with some amazing classical musicians. I'm fluent in all of the grip styles. I can do whatever I want on the bass drum and my left foot is almost caught up with my right. I am solid when it comes to technique.

I want to move on to learning songs, transcribing, studying timekeeping at different tempos/time signatures/feels and making music. I feel like I didn't want to have the problem of encountering music that was too hard to play because of technical limitations, now that that's not really an issue anymore. I think the next few years are going to be really interesting growth-wise.

get a visa gift card and go find one of those exam dump sites. dont use ur real card itll just try to steal your money

so much shonen is absolute garbage i dont understand why people like it

It can actually be tankies all the time

I blocked it too, if you dont like it you dont like it