I'll be more blunt. I don't think remixing requires a person to be artistically skilled. They are merely copying and pasting things other people have done until something sounds ok. I think any average person has the ability to do a remix if they have the desire.
If you look at famous composers who changed music as we know it, almost all were technical masters in addition to their creativity. You can't write a symphony if you don't have the technical chops to do it. You can't write a piano sonata if you can't actually play piano- if you attempt it, it will either sound like crap or not make sense to the hands- probably both.
I could open Garage Band on my Mac and pull together a pretty nice sounding song with the selection of loops. I'm not going to kid myself into thinking it took some kind of creative genius to do it. If you look at any remixing contest on the web, there will be a million entries and all of them sound pretty good.
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