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    Quote Originally Posted by lammie200
    Yeah, I watched it. You should see the one where he analyzes Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” if you haven’t already. He isolates the vocals and the word impressive doesn’t even come close, IMHO.
    I think I've watched most of the WMTSG videos, if not all. They are always worth watching even if I'm not a fan of the song or band. It's a similar format to 'Classic Albums' albeit without the artist commentary which I always enjoyed (maybe Rick will get more commentary from the original artists like he did in the last video). I tend to find Rick's commentary to be quite good on the whole, but the main appeal is hearing those isolated tracks.

    There's a little bit too much emphasis on (classic, prog and alternative) rock for my tastes, but that's another issue, and he's probably catering to his audience. I'd like to hear more breakdowns of a wider diversity of genres.

    (It should actually be called What Makes this Track Great?, but that's another discussion)

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    "If a performance needs to be pitch corrected, then how can we assume the singer has such a control on nuances, what should be the essence of the music, and her/his style and message." Gabor

    "Also Coltrane has many recordings with painfully out of pitch notes." Gabor

    Hi, G,
    Great quotes! I often reminisce in these discussions how not only the music but the musicians have changed over the years. When I think of artists like Ella, Sarah, Billie, Johnny Hartman, Arthur Prysock, Joe Williams, and the talent they brought to the genre and compare them to the "jazz/pop" parakeets of today, the difference is glaring in that modern vocalists, for the most part, lack the voice, personality, and creativity of their predecessors. Perhaps, the exception is Lady Gaga ,who does have some chops, but she is hardly representative of a generation(s). "Nuance," as G says above is the "essence of music."
    In regards to Coltrane, as a former saxophonist, I ate, drank, and slept his music for years. His early music represents the more lyrical/melodic side of him before the sheets of sound/quasi-atonalism became his later trademark. And, it was during this period that Coltrane began experimenting with sound-- especially expanding the range of the instrument with bending notes, distortions of tone/pitch, and use of subtones/altissimo notes in his bag of goodies that became his, later, trademark. These elements gave his music the personality that said: "This is Coltrane."
    So, much is said about generational differences in music and most of the negative is true. My one criticism of most younger players is that they lack "soul"(as we said in my generation). They are great technicians, well-schooled, know the repertoire, but lack a personal voice that is especially evident when I hear them play ballads. And, IMO, this is partially the result of the lack of steady LIVE performance opportunities where they can develop their ideas, sound, and personality and partially the result of artistic development which does not mean playing 8 hours a day in a cubicle . . . but that's another discussion we've already visited. Here's Coltrane in one of the greatest albums ever produced. Notice at 1:39 and 2:17 (approx) his playing with pitch.
    If ya don't play live . . . you're not Jive . . .
    Play live . . . Marinero

    P.S. How's that for generational????

    ?


    And, here's Chad Lefkowitz's(current generation) take of the same tune:
    Notice him exactly copying Trane's licks at 2:14 and 2:34 when he is playing in ballad tempo. Then, being a bopper and being uncomfortable without his comfort zone, he can't finish a ballad without bopping: 4:22 to 6:16 and the 6:54 to end. He does this because he's uncomfortable and it's damn difficult to write good poetry and stay within the ballad context. This is my point. Anyone can play fast. But your soul is revealed when you play a ballad. M

    P.S. And, for the record, I believe Chad is an accomplished musician and I featured him in one of my previous posts for talented young players. However, his road is long if he wants to walk in the shadow of Coltrane and he needs to become a total player M


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lobomov
    I've been thinking a good bit about this and end of day and refrained from commenting until I made up my mind.

    I've decided that it's just "boomer" talk designed to pander to his "boomer" audience. And by "Boomer" I don't mean to the boomer generation, but I use it as a phrase for people stuck in the past trying pretend that the esthetic of their generation is the only right one.


    He makes some vague hints at producers helping bad singers sound good with autotune, but honestly so what?

    Back in the day you'd just fix bad notes by rerecording wee bits and pieces here and there. Remember that .. just start singing/playing along and tap in the one phrase that was butchered ... done in a split second .. nobody was rerecording the entire take from scratch in order to prove that the singer could sing.

    Then you had stuff like Milli Vanilli .. lol


    I don't really know what he is trying to say. It's not like no one knows how to sing these days ... auto tune or not the leading singer of today still totally slay. People today are in general technically much stronger than ever before

    In general it's funny how "Boomers" constantly swing from "this is too technically perfect and has no soul" to "People today have to cheat" .. Can you make up your mind?


    And mixed with vague accusations of cheating he gives example, but they are just silly. Are you really trying to tell me that Lenny Kravitz couldn't have done those backing vocals without autotune? .. Off course not, so then it's just a choice .. Be it artistic or just practical.


    So end of day Beato has stooped ultimate boomer level, where things are being judged as shitty cause they don't fit your boomer esthetic

    Sitting in 2021 and saying that a 1998 recording with Autotune sounds shitty is like staying that The Beano album from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers is just boring generic blues. Fly Away sounded fresh back in 1998


    End of day Fly Away was an international hit and much better selling single than Beato's own flagship "Carolina". So there is that too

    Fly Away (Lenny Kravitz song) - Wikipedia
    Carolina (Parmalee song) - Wikipedia
    Boomers had their bands. Rick is Gen X to me.
    I don't get into the 'what makes this song great' with him. I like how he attempts to explain things like Messiaen, Wes or Joe Pass chords to the layman. He tries to be efficient.

    I'm a boomer. I hate my generation.
    That was a punk song from the early 80's. I Hate my Generation.

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    Mystified by all this boomer & gen xyz BS. Guitarists currently inspiring me (eg Nir Felder, Gilad Hekselman, Julian Lage, Matthew Stevens) are probably in their 30s. Scott Henderson is actually older than me (I checked), but likely thinks he's still 25. More power to him. Wonder what he'd do with auto-tune. LOL.

    Gotta boomer coming on? Consume more turmeric?

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    Rick Beato doesn't explain WHY modern music is dying by auto-tune. He plays some examples of it and explains the history, but doesn't get to the title of the video. I think modern music is dying because it is plain bad. If you auto-tuned older pop songs they would persist. But there isn't anything interesting or exciting about today's pop music. It will be forgotten. And I'm not a boomer.

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    I remember thinking Sade plays with pitch, sometimes slightly flat, and I'm pretty sure it's on purpose and is part of her sound. Auto-tune would mess up her sound. I'm sure that a smart producer wouldn't use auto-tune for her. It's just a tool to use or not use, it doesn't kill anything.


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    As long as it sells a lot of widgets technology and it's advances to put real musicians out of work.
    People don't care how the sausage is made so long as it's available on the cheap!

    Can't wait till that same model happens for Lawyers, Doctors, etc, LOL !

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    beautiful song to wake up to with my coffee with a little creamer

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    Needless to say my favourite flat note of all time is ‘day’ on lovely day by Bill Withers. That should be an absolute honker, but somehow it’s awesome.

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    When You Hit A WRONG Note In Classical vs Jazz



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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevebol
    Under 30, not boomer. Over 30, boomer.
    Got it.
    Do not give up! Anyone can qualify as boomer, whose opinion do not fit, and accidentally older :-) In case she/he is younger, then still have chance to got "talks like a boomer" pass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gabor
    Do not give up! Anyone can qualify as boomer, whose opinion do not fit, and accidentally older :-) In case she/he is younger, then still have chance to got "talks like a boomer" pass.
    Sure fire way to tell; when someone sends you a zoom link on WhatsApp, do you ask them to send an email?

    I'm not saying it rules you out from being a boomer if you don't, but it's a good indicator if you do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christian Miller
    Sure fire way to tell; when someone sends you a zoom link on WhatsApp, do you ask them to send an email?

    I'm not saying it rules you out from being a boomer if you don't, but it's a good indicator if you do.
    I'd qualify for that....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christian Miller
    Sure fire way to tell; when someone sends you a zoom link on WhatsApp, do you ask them to send an email?

    I'm not saying it rules you out from being a boomer if you don't, but it's a good indicator if you do.
    Why would anyone ask for sending an email, if already have the link on WhatsApp? What is zoom?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gabor
    Why would anyone ask for sending an email, if already have the link on WhatsApp? What is zoom?
    You're probably a Geriatric Millennial then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marinero


    My one criticism of most younger players is that they lack "soul"(as we said in my generation). They are great technicians, well-schooled, know the repertoire, but lack a personal voice that is especially evident when I hear them play ballads. And, IMO, this is partially the result of the lack of steady LIVE performance opportunities where they can develop their ideas, sound, and personality and partially the result of artistic development which does not mean playing 8 hours a day in a cubicle .
    It seems to be particularly so with sax players; although most of the crop of younger sax players are as you say technically great and (perhaps a bit too much so) well schooled, they have a disturbing tendency to sound a lot alike.

    They all have studied the same players, same transcriptions, same chord/scale methods, same pattern books, etc. that there is very little of the individuality that made Coleman Hawkins sound different than Lester Young; or why Parker sounded different than Eal Bostic, and so on.

    My New Orleans teachers used to say stuff like:

    "Why you wanna sound like him? What, you gonna be on the radio one night and yo mama won't even know it's you."

    "Why you wanna sound like so-and so? We already got one, and he sounds better at being himself than you do. Why not be yourself?"

    "I don't wanna hear any of that practice room shit in your solo - tell me a story, tell me what you had for dinner."

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    It's not only a matter of ability - or lack of - , but a matter of mentality and mindset on what the desired recording outcome is. There's too much preoccupation with perfection, and not enough with capturing the moment, and the sincerity of a performance.

    You add up all the digital elements in recording, mixing, playback, etc, all the copy-paste, auto tune, quantize.. a lot of the time there's just no music left, it ends up sounding like a computer play along. Then you listen to an older recording.. real music!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lobomov
    No one cares about Gen-X Stevebol ... Even Gen-X'ers don't care about Gen-X
    Well, we're outpopulated by you Boomers, and the Gen Y/Millenials. And, we're also not quite as vocal. Probably because so many of us Xers grew up during crappy economic times (the Recessions of 1982 & 1990/91, and the Stagflation 70s), so (at least for me), we're possibly a little on the cynical side, because we have tendency to not think everything is all sunshine and roses.

    Ellen - Early Gen Xer (born in 1963 to parents who were only kids during WW2).

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    Quote Originally Posted by fep
    I remember thinking Sade plays with pitch, sometimes slightly flat, and I'm pretty sure it's on purpose and is part of her sound. Auto-tune would mess up her sound. I'm sure that a smart producer wouldn't use auto-tune for her. It's just a tool to use or not use, it doesn't kill anything.

    I was in college (the University of Wisconsin) in the mid 80s, when Sade had her first major success. She bored me silly at the time. But, after hearing "Hang On to Your Love, while making an hour and half drive home from Milwaukee late at night in 2000 (it had a nice and edgy vibe that fit my late night drive home), I grew to like some of her material. It'll never be top tier for me, but I still like to hear it on occasion as a musical change of pace.



    IMO auto tuning "Hang On to Your Love" would make it sound kind of bland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EllenGtrGrl
    Well, we're outpopulated by you Boomers, and the Gen Y/Millenials. And, we're also not quite as vocal. Probably because so many of us Xers grew up during crappy economic times (the Recessions of 1982 & 1990/91, and the Stagflation 70s), so (at least for me), we're possibly a little on the cynical side, because we have tendency to not think everything is all sunshine and roses.

    Ellen - Early Gen Xer (born in 1963 to parents who were only kids during WW2).
    Shout out to Milwaukee Area Technical College!

    I was born in 57'. We're the Seinfeld of generations. The generation about nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevebol
    Shout out to Milwaukee Area Technical College!

    I was born in 57'. We're the Seinfeld of generations. The generation about nothing.
    Yeah, pretty much.

    Recently I read another post in another forum, that introduced me to term for those born between 1954 & 1964/65 - Generation Jones

    What is Generation Jones? Difference between Genjonesers and Baby Boomers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lobomov
    I'm later date Gen-X (1972) .. and I think my year is maybe the last one that remember growing up with the cold war and fear of a nuclear winter

    I remember this being a huge hit in 1984 ... Still blows my mind how stuff like this could reach the top of the charts ... (Might be unknown in the US tho)


    I remember Ultravox, though from what I remember, they were bigger darlings on MTV, than the radio.

    As for the Cold War - well, I grew up in a town 80 miles (130 km) north of Milwaukee. Less than 20 miles (32 km) north of where I lived there wasn't 1, but 2 nuclear power plants (Point Beach, and Kewaunee). They may or may not have been 1st Strike targets, but they were at least 2nd Strike targets for the missiles. I figured that it would probably be Game Over for me if WW3 broke out, due to at the very least, all of the radiation those 2 nuke plants would spew out after being hit by missiles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EllenGtrGrl
    I remember Ultravox, though from what I remember, they were bigger darlings on MTV, than the radio.

    As for the Cold War - well, I grew up in a town 80 miles (130 km) north of MIlwaukee. Less than 20 miles (32 km) north of where I lived there wasn't 1, but 2 nuclear power plants (Point Beach, and Kewaunee). They may or may not have been 1st Strike targets, but they were at least 2nd Strike targets for the missiles. I was figured that it would probably be Game Over for me if WW3 broke out, due to at the very least, all of the radiation those 2 nuke plants would spew out after being hit by missiles.

    Not a chance, E,
    Nobody's going to mess with Wisconsin cheese and beer!
    Play live . . . Marinero