What happended to the skill envolved in music??
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because people have to actually look at them now, and the retard population is expanding at great speeds
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the emperor's new groove\n\nand what happened to your 2nd question
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There is something called a child PRODIGY . Right at ypoung age I have seen such child prodigys who play excellent violin or Mandolin,or sing vocal music to enthral a big audience of expert musicians and admirers.\nBut in most cases it is 90% PERSPIRATION and 10% INSPIRATION.\nPRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.\nFAILURES ARE THE FIRST STEP TO SUCCESS.\nThus individual effort to excel is needed in all cases followed by parental and surrounding encouragements.
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I think as a whole any new development or improvement in technology or methods of transmission and delivery of musical product is very good for music.  The internet specifically the use of computer files like mp3, wav and wma have allowed for a greater range of artists to get exposure... virtually ANYONE can be a star.  People also have opportunities to get exactly the music they want and not waste money on junk.  Internet has been really good for music as a whole.
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Lack of talent is what is going on! I don't even keep up with the new stuff anymore, it sucks. It seems that the music industry is catering to the younger people with all of this poppy bubble gum crap. This is another reason we bought Sirius, we get to pick what we listen to. No Shakira, or over the hill Madonna. It is all crap!!! Hey is that Freedom Rock? Well turn it up! Ha ha
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Unfortunately, most independant music teachers, while skilled at the instrument, lack the business skills to make it a profitable endeaver. Since mistakes in the business side can be very costly, I'd recommend you go see your local SCORE group right away. SCORE is a group of retired execs that give free help to get new businesses started, and improve existing ones.\n\nThe second issue is the difference between being able to perform, vs the ability to teach. In time, it will develop. In the beginning, its probably ok to follow the steps your teachers used when you learned. I will however stand behind the fact that skilled music teachers who are marginal performers often do much much better in this arena, than top teachers with poor teaching skills.
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Sadly the raspy vocal phenomenon has been overdone.  There's too many artists who sounds like that now to make it a unique sound.  So now it just sounds like all of them are trying to copy each other.  So sad, it was a cool sound.
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equal temperment was definitely a great stride . . . but looked at from a physics standpoint, everything we hear as "normal" is from a physics standpoint, wrong.\n\nI expect as computers become more and more involved in the making of new music, the avant-garde musical movement of the last century will expand to cover different tonalities, including systems not used in any indiginous music.  However, this will still sound "wrong" to most people used to the Western tuning system, so it probably won't catch on :-)\n\nMuch about modern popular music can be commended.  Jazz pushed our understanding about cognition and music forward substantially - improvisation can now be done in performance, and people approve of it!  Songs like the Beatles' "Blackbird," which use a complicated harmonic structure in combination with modern lyrics, will stick around for a long time.  I predict anything with a I-IV-V-I chordal structure (and nothing else) will only be around as long as it has cultural value, though.\n\nIf anything, we're in a phase where music is valued for emotional expression instead of for mathematical precision.  Absolute music may make a comeback eventually, but probably not any time soon.
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Religous music changed A LOT over this period.  Maybe you could focus on the way the music has changed and tie it to the political and cutural facts.
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MTV ruined music in my opinion.  Music has been in a downward spiral since around 1985.  I'm 25 years old and I listen to mostly to the music my parents and grandparents grew up with.  There are a few good artists right now like Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.
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I think as they grow older they sometimes try to reinvent themselves. Usually they find their way back to their original sound. I'm still holding out. It won't be long.....just watch. :)
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Yes it has been shown in scienctific studioes that plant sod react to music. and other sounds.\nPlants that were subject to smoothing low sound sof music wer efound to grow better and healthier than those with loud blaring music(these did worse) and those with no music.\nI read of the test first about 20 yrs a go but this i sthe first response to that study I have ever seen. \nThanks I alway wondered about the study if it was still ongoing.and will look into it if I get the time.
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back for the first time\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dmusic%2526field-keywords%3Dludacris%2520back%2520for%2520the%2520first%2520time%2526results-process%3Ddefault%2526dispatch%3Dsearch/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Fov%5Ftops-1%5Fmusic%5F13808295%5F1/103-1857744-7724661
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It just shows that music of today suxs. Their is no originality in anything anymore
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Think about how TECHNOLOGY affected jazz music.  \nFor years, it was all about the 78's.  They were cool & all, but you had 3 1/2 minutes to do your thing.  Then, they invented the LP.  You could have 45 minutes or so, cut in half, to say your piece.  I know that Ellington went nuts!  He was like, "Woo-hoo, I'm gonna create some serious ART!"  It must have blown people's minds.
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Well, here on Answers I have a hidden talent.  I play the piano.  It's been years, but I can still play.
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Music is organized sound, so I think the answer would be "irregular vibration patterns".  These links should help.