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Topic subjectRE: But Rock is a genre that's 'stripped down'
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2742248, RE: But Rock is a genre that's 'stripped down'
Posted by jshua, Thu Sep-20-12 10:50 AM
>That's my problem with this post...all genre's aren't jazz.
>
>You are going to be hard pressed to find a 'technical' song
>with great songwriting outside of specific rock genres. Why?
>Because things like melody, grove, etc aren't technical.
>
>Jazz needs to be technical because it's shit songwriting* to
>be honest, we appreciate it because of the chops and how the
>masters are able to wrest out melody and song ideas out of
>pretty much vaguely controlled notes.
>
>Most of the great songs in the world are technically shit,
>lol.
>
>
>>start, when they had their first guitarist - not Andy.
>

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