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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.




I work in a machine shop. When CNC machines came on the scene the old school tool makers despised them. AFter all, CNC didn't require most of the fundamental skills required by a toolmaker. Indeed, it seemed like a CNC process was so "easy" that you didn't need skilled people anymore.. you just needed button pushers at the machine.

Ah, but there is still a skill set required, but it has taken a new form.

observation #5
in any given art or craft, skills and technique reflect common use.
If the only way to record a series of sounds so they can be repeated later is by black notes on paper, then that's the skill that will be learned and passed on by people who want to make musical sounds.

New technology changes the procedures that get passed down. Old passes away and new takes its place

200 years ago, blacksmiths kept your ride on the road... today its the Auto mechanic Tomorrow it may be something else.

And 200 years from now, black notes on paper may not be the technique that musicians teach their students as the best way to replicate the sounds that are currently used.


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