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kay'lon rushing <k3zz21@gmail.com> was like: > Just wondering if there are any other teenagers here at LD or am I just > one > of a very small group? So far it seems like everyone has graduated > colloge > already haha. Hey Kay'lon, I'm surprised that you didn't see more teenage responses, but I guess it makes sense. Think of it as a complement - you're a bit ahead of the curve for your age! That's not to say you have the interests of old people - more that most people your age probably haven't encountered live looping yet. I bet you'll find the field getting less lonely as you get older - certainly within the next 4-5 years. When I was a teenager, most of the other musicians my age were content to play an instrument and in the genre they liked. (Me too - to be frank.) "Being good" at the time involved being able to make your hands move quickly and knowing how to play a lot of well-known songs. I didn't start meeting people who were exploring expanding their instrument setups or developing their own sound palette until their early 20s. And let's face it - the technology costs money. I'm curious - what are people your age interested in doing in music these days? I graduated in the 90s - at the time, bands in which people played instruments seemed to still have hope of getting well-known someday. The culture of music has changed since then in simultaneously different directions. On one hand, the music you hear on tv & radio is much more oriented on the singer or rapper, with very little attention paid to the people who actually make the music. On the other hand, the internet has created opportunities to hear music in such a way that MTV and corporate radio might not be the primary pipelines that they were when I was in high school. Do you meet a lot of kids who play instruments, or is it mostly people who want to be the "personality" and have the music happen behind the scenes. Do you meet folks your age who want to be producers? -- Matt Davignon mattdavignon@gmail.com www.ribosomemusic.com Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com http://www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt