Re: To those who make a living off of music

["k3zz21@gmail.com" <k3zz21@gmail.com>]

Well i realized i tend to get all giddy after going to piano lessons and 
listening to my private teacher explain how to make something more musical 
based on touch, length, stroke of the key etc. I noticed Im much much more 
of the harmony type than ambient. However I definitely want to get in to 
ambience too because i want to break my mind free of harmonic jail haha. 
Its like when it comes to chord progs i can think of melodies quite easily 
to fit with them but every time i tried anything remotely ambient sounding 
i just feel like "what the heck am i doing right now?" i have now idea 
what the principles of ambient music are. Maybe thats the problem in 
itself. I keep looking for rules. :p 
-----Original Message-----
Date: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:57:08 am
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
From: "Teddy Kumpel" <teddykumpel@mac.com>
Subject: Re: To those who make a living off of music

such an interesting topic...

Matt... Do you think you still find music interesting BECAUSE you decided 
to stay away from institutional learning? I think you would have stayed 
interested no matter what... you just found all the music school stuff too 
far away from your goal and you didn't see the point at the time. Totally 
understandable... there were things in school I pushed away for the same 
reasons.... like learning George VanEps chord solos.... zzzzzz

my thought about this whole thing is:

if your goal is to be really really good at a very focused thing that 
doesn't have harmony that changes quickly, like ambient music, you 
probably don't need music school.

if you want to have a diverse skill set, music school is probably right 
for you. I learned how to arrange for big band, how to compose a modal 
jazz song, how to hear every chord from every mode of the 4 main modal 
systems, all about jazz standards and chord substitutions, accompanying a 
singer in a duo, what swing is.... and a whole plethora