The thread for those of us who've never composed a single bar of music in our lives

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'Bar' *is* a term for a certain measure of music, right? Anyway.

Admit it and then maybe elaborate on how you feel about it.

― Aaron A., Friday, 5 March 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE

I don't mind coz I love me the sounds I hear. I sometimes talk about that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool. I'll look for your posts in the future, Mr. Raggett!

― Aaron A., Friday, 5 March 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i have banged and rattled and stuff. composed probably not. does singing my own lyrics over the my sharona riff count?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 5 March 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

was there an audience to suffer this banging and rattling?

― Aaron A., Friday, 5 March 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

o yes. but not for the my sharona thing.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 5 March 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I've played a little, but the only time I think about bars is when I get thirsty.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 5 March 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't compose. I decompose. Oh wait.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 5 March 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I could never stop at a single bar ...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I found out what a 'chord' was last year. This has not added anything to my enjoyment of the music I listen to.
Do people who understand music technically, and can play enjoy music more/have better judgment as to what's good or bad? I would argue they don't, and often have very conservative tastes.
I think my lack of 'chops' does affect my ability to articulate exactly what I like/don't like about a song, however

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Friday, 5 March 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind coz I love me the sounds I hear. I sometimes talk about that.
Somehow, I imagine that being said by Algeria Touchshriek...

I've never really played anything, apart from that one time at school (10 yrs old) when I blew everyone away when a girl in my class held a lecture about (her) cello and let 3 kids play the instrument at the end of her presentation. Let's say I attacked rather than played it. Certainly no Arthur Russell stuff. :)

Once I find the time I'm going to have a go at Garageband...

― willem (willem), Friday, 5 March 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I twatted about mixing stuff together very roughly in SoundForge last year, but it was shit so I gave up. If I could play music I probably wouldn't enjoy it so much because it wouldn't sound so impressive.

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 5 March 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I DJed for 6 or 7 years (house music, beatmixing, keymixing and all!), which was fine, but also convinced me that (since I'm really not musical) the talents of DJs are way overstated.
I agree with Nick H: if I found out that those chord changes that always leave me breathless are a standard musical technique, well, i don't want to know...

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes I have dreams (you know, while I'm sleeping) that a song is coming to me, and that it's not at all based on something I've heard and then I wake up and realize that I can't play an instrument or read music or know anything. Stupid subconscious.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah! i've written the most amazing things in my dreams! but when i say written, well, i don't even mean remember, or know how to play, let alone *written*.
and maybe it's just paul mccartney's yesterday or something, with a note changed.

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I also love hookers but I never made one.

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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