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Originally Posted by boo boo
Not to say a musician can't pour their emotion into the music, but whats the criteria for feeling? How do you rate it and measure it accurately? How do sense it?
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I don't think it's something to be measured. It's inexplicable. Different people will feel different music. It isn't something to be rated. It's not something to be broken down and analyzed. Why pick at a song for having an extremely simple, unchanging bassline for three minutes straight? It doesn't matter what each individual band member is doing. What matters is the sound that they formulate together. And you either feel that formulation, or you don't.
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I can tell the difference between someone who has gone out & experienced life and someone who has spent all his time sitting in his bedroom practicing how fast he can play the guitar & reading too much Tolkien.
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Who's to say that every Tolkien-influenced, fast song had no emotion put into it? Who's to say that every Gilmour-esque guitar solo wasn't written by an individual that sat in his or her room and practiced scales for years? It's impossible to tell, really. All you know is whether or not
you feel the music. It'd be pretty arrogant to think otherwise.