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Originally Posted by Chronic Apathy
But why should they try to do their own thing when being one step behind secular music is working for them?
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If by working you mean being successful within a subculture while being ridiculed by the mainstream then I agree with you.
When I think successful I think being taken as serious musicians and not as copy cats of successful secular musicians from yesteryear.
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Don't get me wrong, I think it's stupid that almost all of the mainstream christian bands available can be easily comparable to other secular bands that, more often than not, write better stuff. I feel like Christians who listen exclusively to christian music are, as I mentioned earlier, being willfully ignorant. I know a small handful of people who are musicians in some kind of "rock instrument" who also refuse to listen to anything but christian music, and I think it's absolutely hilarious that they think they'll accomplish much of anything. I've yet to encounter any christian band that has a lot of technical skill on any instrument. Occasionally something will come up where a particular instrument will impress me, but it's never anything close to Peart or Hendrix, and I simply don't understand how someone can be super motivated to play an instrument without those legends as motivators.
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What I would suggest you do is just download an instrumental of a really good song by a talented secular band and show it to them.
Hopefully they will learn from it instead of either brushing it off or plagiarizing it.