¤asy, don’t get upset about anything… I’m not rude just because I expressed my opinion without offending you, or at least I hope so, while you, on the other hand, completely lack respect towards me. You can think whatever you want, of course, no one denies you that right, but remember that if I base myself on 50 years of rock history, then you, in your theory of music without technical and theoretical quality, are dismissing THE HISTORY OF MUSIC, from Haydn, Mozart to the present day with contemporary music, which, through innovations in rock like The Cure, Yo La Tengo, etc... doesn’t really mean much. Do you understand?
If you write a song, you cannot call yourself a composer, do you understand? The composition defined in the classical sense is the creation of something following very precise harmonic rules… that you write songs, even beautiful ones, no one denies it and no one forbids you from doing it… I say that anyway, those who define themselves as composers of their own music are the rude ones, but thinking it I don’t say it because anyway we come from two different worlds, and it doesn’t mean that one is right (yours) and one is ignorant (my point of view)… I come from classical studies and a bit of jazz, so I focus my attention on aspects of music that have nothing to do with innovation or anything else, the important thing is that they follow the rules that I study and learn… you appreciate a way of music that is not wrong, but more immediate and still more based on sounds, on emotions, etc… so… please: before saying left and right that everyone is ignorant, please understand that everyone comes from different musical and cultural experiences and therefore should be appreciated and not denigrated and defined as “bullshit.”
To make my statements, I have a study, whether you believe it or not, that goes hand in hand with what I say… okay? Go to any music book and judge THEM as ignorant… if you come to talk to me about rock (therefore a genre that started as simple and direct, like the Beatles…) then my argument, as you rightly say, falls… because rock is based on a simple musical structure, not complex but also not as researched as Jazz or classical music can be. My discourse anyway was not so much about music, since anything I say right or wrong deemed by you is considered bullshit (in a very rude way… but anyway… I understand that I make you angry... and out of courtesy, I won't insult you in return)… my discourse was focused on your saying: “I compose my own music”.. which I find a somewhat reckless statement, given that, as I see it, COMPOSITION is something else.
Anyway… those who would need to study are not me… since I have done so abundantly… I live off music both studied and played… whether you believe it or not… ah… critics, or at least the serious ones… study.
