riseagainstrocks

How am I trying to be cool? I'm pointing out that you simply don't have to background to discuss things on this level. You can find Cynic boring if you want. I really don't understand how. Nor does the vast majority of those with a musical education.

and jackhammer I don't see how I went on a tangent. You said that modern music is built off the blues. I agree. However since the origin of this whole discussion was my assertion that emotion in music can only truly carry the weight it was meant to for the writer only, I felt compelled to give my reasoning and then state how your logic did not apply to what I was talking about.

I'll relate this to another medium of art; painting. If a painter painted exactly with emotion, odds are you'd end up with something Pollack-ish. However, if time went into the planning, composition, study, and technique of the painting, you'd end up with some Rembrandt-ish.

Emotion in music is a fine starting place, but with out real ability, it's worthless

and just to clarify, when I use the term technical, I'm not talking about mile a minute sweeps. That Cynic video is a prime example. Odd chord shapes coupled with counterpoint vocal melody create a layered effect that appeals to me in the pure aesthetic sense as well as the mathematical one.

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