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RE: Neoclassical Metal is a style of music people will often say "that's not metal".. What else is new? [Metal Tree: 28]
I love the stuff that Ritchie did with Rainbow. I can admire the technique of others, but it has to be musical too. I can't dream of playing as fast as some do, but music is not a race. I have listened to some of these. It's all part of the rich variety of music
Yes, and it is also a matter of our ears/mind getting used to hearing a thing. For many people some classical music is just too much. This can also be true of Jazz. This can be true of singers that when you first hear them (thinking back when I first heard AC/DC) you can't understand them then your mind learns to interpret them. Now AC/DC is pretty tame vocally compared to some things. So like our mind can learn to hear past accents, it also can learn different styles of music.
This stuff is all VERY musical. As much as anything else in many cases it is just a lot faster so the subtlety is not as obvious unless you are used to listening to fast stuff.
I am way into Progressive Metal and Progressive Rock. They both can have some pretty fast parts. After decades of listening to that stuff I used to think was fast now feels really slow to me. Things I had trouble following years ago now are easy to follow with second nature. It also influences my playing when I was playing.
There are some people that just throw down some really fast chromatic spray of notes for the speed. That isn't really what these guys are doing. There is purpose. Some of them mix more blues in with the classical like Ritchie does. Some of them do not. Yngwie did some blues songs on some of his albums and I think he sucks at it. I actually am similar to him in that respect. I know variations on pentatonic scales, modes, etc. I can play the patterns in blues, but what I play always sounds like Rock when I try to do it. It does not truly sound bluesy. I call this the groove. You can know the techniques of any style of music, but unless you can find and feel that groove something will be lacking when you play it. Yngwie is the master of the groove for Neoclassical, and even Classical guitar. Yet, I've never heard him play any other style and me call it great. There is definitely passion and musicality in his playing though in spades... it's just REALLY fast a lot of the time so takes a bit for a mind to adapt to the speed and be able to note the subtle variances between notes (or not subtle).
The problem with pushing the limits is that they will move, as you say, but good music stays good regardless. We can all find something that suits out mood. Sometimes I need something fast and aggressive.
Yeah I like people to take things to new places. That doesn't mean I like all the places they take it to, but I tend to gravitate to music that is different from what came before it more than anything. I like almost all music (not a fan of Rap, okay with hip hop if it has decent music and more than just a beat), and country doesn't really do it for me though I respect the people that make it and don't mind watching it live or in competitions. The only music I really DISLIKE with a passion is an obscure version of Techno that was called Polish Techno by the guy that listened to it. Other techno I like, but that tech was so basic I might be able to train my dog to play some of it for a treat, and that is not a joke.
Other than that I like pretty much everything. I have things I prefer and that I personally choose to listen to more than others, but I actually like almost everything.
As far as rap. I like rap battles where they make up their responses spontaneously and on the spot. I don't get into the actual studio music rap though. I was around when Rap first hit the music scene. It was very basic back then. I like some hip hop as I consider it taking what rap was doing and actually adding a little bit more complexity to the music.
Rap hit at the same time as Break dancing, and for break dancing you just needed a good beat. So you had crazy dancing that was fun to watch combined with Rap in its infancy and they were a potent combo. I liked watching the break dancers. I didn't care for the rap.
I've liked other styles of music that fuse rapping INTO the music. So it is not even the rapping I dislike, it is just when the music is a basic beat and people doing rhythmic rhyming over the top of that. That's not my thing.
My son-in-law is actually quite good at that... Though he sings non-rapping in his stuff too so he seems more Hip Hop.
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I'm not really into rap, but there will be some I like. It's the same with most genres. I just don't listen to a lot of music radio these days, so I'm probably exposed to less new music now. I get my music from other sources now and that may be self-selecting what I like.
I VERY rarely listen to the radio either(couple of times a year in my car). I kind of go on music scavenger hunts a couple times a year just poking around corners on the internet and seeing what people are talking about. That is partially why I did the Metal Tree series. I discovered a lot of music I'd never heard before.