Gibson,

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I say BIAB is now a musical instrument and as with all instruments you need to learn how to play it.



Oh my goodness! ……………Seriously? I mean really, …… are you serious??????

I thought I’d found a place where musicians could use technology to enhance what they can actually PLAY. Notice I said enhance WHAT THEY CAN PLAY!

So if anyone who can double click on a BIAB icon and type in a chord progression is a musician, …… then what’s next? Let’s see. If you can recite the alphabet from A to G or count from 1 to 7, are you a musician?

In the process of defending BIAB against the “naysayers”, you are actually building their case against it!

Maybe some of you guys don’t put any stock into the hours, days, weeks, months and years you’ve put into learning to play your instrument, … … but I do! Saying that anyone who can use BIAB is a musician is OFFENSIVE to anyone who can actually play an instrument! No wonder some folks look down their nose at it. I would too if I hadn’t used it for years, and I based my opinion on statements like this!

Maybe I am in the wrong place. If the accepted definition of a “musician” is anyone who can use BIAB, …… then I definitely am in the wrong place. I hope not, but maybe so.

I find that kind of statement unbelievable!

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EDIT: Maybe we should add a new term to the music biz. “Music Programmer”. That would cover the “loop” users and folks who can only use BIAB or another program to create music.

That still doesn’t make you a “musician”. You have to earn that title by actually learning to play an instrument. It shouldn’t be “granted” to someone who hasn’t learned to play.

Last edited by bobcflatpicker; 09/10/11 02:33 AM.
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