| The World According to Givemethebeat (abridged)
with Cliff Notes provided by Matt Smith
I have a degree in musicology so I think I am accredited to give a critic.
According to my own family members who teach people hoping to recieve degrees in musicology, musicians with this distinction and who are not in receipt of an academic appointment are aimless wanderers of the profession. Now if you had said you had 2 or 3 degrees in musicology, I could possibly believe there was hope of a university professorship. But since you are posting retorts to a kid drummer just before 10:00 am on a Monday morning, unemployed is my guess. BTW, high school study hall is my excuse.
And good luck with that healing process that will most likely accelerate the moment the coast is clear.
BTW, it's critique. If you are going to engage in an avocation at least learn to spell it.
If you were to have read my follow up the comment. the comment was intended to be sarcastic.
It failed.
In what way? Like I said, the solo had not a lot of variation or something like that. I could have been frank and said it was boring...
I would have had no problem whatsoever with your personal opinion. The foolish technical explanation and personal suppositions are why this is happening to you right now.
Bu they are very similar to a 7a right? Read what you like into that comment. if you have an insecurity about lighter sticks as a form of cheating thats you issue, I did not say nor imply it.
I am not reading into a comment. I am correctly reading into the isolated out of the blue mention. It's a silly point and a common trait associated with pseudo intellectual behavior. Therefore the reply was never in personal defense, but was in fact an obviously effective means of pointing out your own suspicious qualifications for critique. Oh I'm sorry critic.
I believe you were presenting a drum solo?
Did you actually read the description at youtube? It was a small part of a video library extracted from a recording session. But yes it can be presented as a solo, and I'm fine with that.
I though you were playing a guitar, sorry.....
Judging by what I have already read from you, your sarcasm isn't a given. You may well believe its any number of things. But since you are obviously not that good with the sarcasm, I would best drop it. It obviously brings you nothing to what is already an empty table.
I like Morello.
Good, I'll pass along your regards.
Yes accents for momento are nice. My point was balance and the emphasis on the sticks as opposed to lack of emphasis on the kick. I think you if did you the same thing again and focus on including the kick as part of the solo, you might be surprised at the result.
Actually, I am of the belief that the kick is far too overused today. I see you are a Donati guy, and that's fine. These are opinions, and if you discern closely, this type of dialogue does not invoke negative response. However, when you invoke an isolated comment that is framed to denote weakness for using too much hand to play a drum, that in of itself reads foolish and silly.
Nahh its cool man , your actually a good guy.
The road to recovery begins.
I have endured far more slack from other people in my life without them putting up a decent argument.
This I can believe. A little self examination may be in order. In fact I would consider being intellectually dismantled by a kid on a drum forum a kind of epiphany.
I thought I would ignore this comment but I just can't resist.
Try harder next time. Doing so here would have spared you my closing statement.
If it tell you who I am it will not be fair to everyone.
But then again I haven't got a clue who your are either...
This is the oldest scam used in musician forums on the Internet...the secret poster, posing as the everyman, before revealing his true identity to those mean people who misunderstood him. Interestingly enough, that payoff never actually happens. Besides I wouldn't care if you were Shelly Manne incarnate. The points you made were still wrong, and I would most certainly share this with Shelly too. As for who I am or am not, I'm not the issue at present...
...Or maybe you still don't get that?
I'm done here. Mods I ask you keep this exchange up for a while before deleting it. I would assume that others have had to deal with this poseur before in similar situations. Hopefully this exchange will suggest to them that personal tolerance of foolish insult based on peripheral understanding is not always necessary.  |