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'63-Strat":2jdwa1c1 said:First off, Scott Henderson is rad and if anyone deserves to get paid for his shit it may as well be him. I think that stealing a less commercial artist's stuff is actually worse than stealing a mainstream pop act's stuff given how many other revenue streams the latter have but w/e. I'm typing this while I listen to Stern's upside downside record that I did buy off itunes a ways back btw, EdStealing is stealing and its only due to cognitive dissonance that people even try to rationalize this. Enough said. Gotta chug enough coffee to wake up for my last level of ear training final ever this morning, ugh.
Ear-training huh? I wasn't going to bother with the thread but this changed my mind.
First off, I Henderson is a fusion genius to me and I own some of his CDs.
BUT...jazz just isn't as marketable as it used to be (especially in the U.S.) and neither are "guitar hero" albums. As stated previously, he's in a fringe genre. I have the privilege of knowing some well-respected jazz musicians/composers with unbelievable resumes who still have to teach lessons or at a university just to make ends meet.
Back to the ear-training.
I am back in school completing the classical composition music degree I never finished. I have about 5 classes left after this semester. I am so burned out because the music you're forced to write may be contemporary and artful but what they don't understand is that NOBODY GIVES A CRAP ABOUT IT!!! Seriously, if people can figure out what key you're in it's wrong, you can't have anything repeat (eliminating any sense of beat or groove), etc. The music that makes the educators happy is completely unmarketable. Also, people complain constantly about people not showing up to performances if they can ever get anyone to perform it in the first place since audiences would rather hear the classics.
It's too late to change schools now so I am just to stick it out and get out of there.