Future of music

Pursuingchange · 10-17-2012, 02:39 AM

Hello everyone, this is my first post here.

I just want to know what everyone thinks will be the future of popular music. I have lots of abstract ideas as to what could happen. I play hard rock music (guitar) and have been thinking lately that the electric guitar (as revolutionary as it was it its day of creation) is kind of used up and is not as exciting and intriguing as it used to be. It also seems like music has stagnated, and not intentionally. I think its because We have basically reached an end to possibilities. Seems like everything has already been done (or at least everything that is worth doing) and there's not much more room for growth. I think the electric guitar has kind of reached its creative end. Given just how vast and overwhelming the spectrum of ways the guitar is being played today, I just don't see how there is much left to do with the instrument. And it kind of seems that way with most all other genres. I believe that there either needs to be a new instrument come along and change the way we listen to music (much in the same way the electric guitar did), or another form of artistic entertainment needs to replace music.

Just to set the record early on, I'm NOT what I would call an expert. I only know what I know, but I AM a musician and a pretty creative thinker. I could be totally misled and wrong with my perceptions of music, which is what I'm looking to change here. So tell me what you think.

Thanks!

Norg · 10-17-2012, 02:51 AM

the future of music is obvs new advance inturments

like a guitar that can play both guitar and bass or both mixed with a flick of the finger

instead of pedals it turns into a electronic pad

electronic drums will only get better due to the amount of sounds they can cover and tunings

and already there are alot more music toys and gadgets that do various things

thats just the physical tools part

Pursuingchange · 10-17-2012, 02:57 AM

I'll just say something else too, I DON'T consider electronic music a true form of music. Sure, it has it place today, but when I first heard Ace Frehley or Eddie Van Halen as a kid, it didn't inspire me to play a computer. That's just my take on that. I don't believe the guitar should be digitized either. But maye there are new tricks or gadgets to add on to the guitar that will create new techniques of playing.

Norg · 10-17-2012, 03:01 AM

0_o heeee to me its alwasy been about the """sound""" it does not matter what makes that sound to me rather it be a drum stick hitting a wooden box or a DJ mixer compressing Bass sounds its all the same 2 me

Pursuingchange · 10-17-2012, 03:08 AM

I can understand what you mean. The sound is the sound nomatter how it was made. But for me, the thing that really moved me was the fact that the sounds were being made by a real person in real time, the instrument was a tool for their expression. It wasn't just about the sound, but how the person was producing the sound. Getting to know the player and how they use their instrument. There's a very intimate connection between the player and the instrument that is just as important as the music itself. So it DOES matter to me where the sound is coming from and who the player is and how they're doing it. That makes it real and intriguing.

10-17-2012, 02:39 AM	#1 (permalink)
Pursuingchange Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 139	Future of music Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I just want to know what everyone thinks will be the future of popular music. I have lots of abstract ideas as to what could happen. I play hard rock music (guitar) and have been thinking lately that the electric guitar (as revolutionary as it was it its day of creation) is kind of used up and is not as exciting and intriguing as it used to be. It also seems like music has stagnated, and not intentionally. I think its because We have basically reached an end to possibilities. Seems like everything has already been done (or at least everything that is worth doing) and there's not much more room for growth. I think the electric guitar has kind of reached its creative end. Given just how vast and overwhelming the spectrum of ways the guitar is being played today, I just don't see how there is much left to do with the instrument. And it kind of seems that way with most all other genres. I believe that there either needs to be a new instrument come along and change the way we listen to music (much in the same way the electric guitar did), or another form of artistic entertainment needs to replace music. Just to set the record early on, I'm NOT what I would call an expert. I only know what I know, but I AM a musician and a pretty creative thinker. I could be totally misled and wrong with my perceptions of music, which is what I'm looking to change here. So tell me what you think. Thanks! Last edited by Pursuingchange; 10-17-2012 at 02:51 AM.

10-17-2012, 02:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
Norg Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,358	the future of music is obvs new advance inturments like a guitar that can play both guitar and bass or both mixed with a flick of the finger instead of pedals it turns into a electronic pad electronic drums will only get better due to the amount of sounds they can cover and tunings and already there are alot more music toys and gadgets that do various things thats just the physical tools part

10-17-2012, 02:57 AM	#3 (permalink)
Pursuingchange Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 139	I'll just say something else too, I DON'T consider electronic music a true form of music. Sure, it has it place today, but when I first heard Ace Frehley or Eddie Van Halen as a kid, it didn't inspire me to play a computer. That's just my take on that. I don't believe the guitar should be digitized either. But maye there are new tricks or gadgets to add on to the guitar that will create new techniques of playing.

10-17-2012, 03:01 AM	#4 (permalink)
Norg Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,358	0_o heeee to me its alwasy been about the """sound""" it does not matter what makes that sound to me rather it be a drum stick hitting a wooden box or a DJ mixer compressing Bass sounds its all the same 2 me

10-17-2012, 03:08 AM	#5 (permalink)
Pursuingchange Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 139	I can understand what you mean. The sound is the sound nomatter how it was made. But for me, the thing that really moved me was the fact that the sounds were being made by a real person in real time, the instrument was a tool for their expression. It wasn't just about the sound, but how the person was producing the sound. Getting to know the player and how they use their instrument. There's a very intimate connection between the player and the instrument that is just as important as the music itself. So it DOES matter to me where the sound is coming from and who the player is and how they're doing it. That makes it real and intriguing.