Between working two jobs, never paying off student loans, unobtainable housing, and medical bankruptcy, yeah you’re right. Let’s just get or dopamine fix and be content with our squalor.
Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months agoNot everyone has the physical talent, space, and time to learn to play an instrument.
Shadywack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sounds like a you problem. Don’t piss on everyone else’s parade.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
What’s “physical talent”?
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Having arms to play a guitar.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just thought I’d drop in to say, it’s possible to play it with your feet.
Dumpdog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My dude! So good
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Clearly they shouldn’t be allowed to have an iPad right?
Dumpdog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Great point. Not a lot of people have time and two arms
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Assuming you’re being condescending, some people don’t have the physical capability to plan an instrument. That should stop them from having apps to create music just because a small handful of people who dislike Apple are offended by a commercial that was largely computer generated.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So the solution to that is to only make paint-by-numbers music that Apple will allow you to make with their pre approved apps? That sounds like a good way to end up with a lot of mediocre easily digestible music that all sounds the same…
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There are plenty of apps that let you do your own thing. Don’t blame the software for musicians being derivative. People have created amazing digital music with significantly less technology. Maybe you just don’t like that people without a formal background (rich people) have the opportunity to make bad (and good) music.
It sounds like your only problem is that you have to use the App Store. So what app was denied by Apple but is available on Android? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have been playing guitar for nearly 20 years. My family has never been rich, which meant I got the most affordable guitar available (which cost MUCH less than an iPad even accounting for inflation) when I started.
I knew absolutely nothing about how to play it and taught myself for the first year from stuff I found in magazines. When it became apparent that I wasn’t going to just abandon the thing in the closet my parents agreed to get me lessons for this costly sum of $25 a week.
Since then I have have scrimped and saved to get nicer instruments when I could afford them, and they mean a lot to me so I take care of them and play them often.
When making music becomes reduced to a game from WHICHEVER app store, it loses all meaning because there is zero invested in it. I’m sure there will be a few people who actually manage to make real music this way despite the limitations, but for most people it will just be a toy they lose interest in like Candy Crush or something.
If it were easy to play decent music then everyone in the world would have a top 10 hit
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m sorry your music career didn’t pan out after all that work. Not everyone can be a musician.
Dumpdog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Does anyone know an even slighty successful musician who uses a 5 year old iPad? Now, are there any slightly successful musicians that we can think of that use a 5 year old (affordable) guitar? Or a 5 year old computer? How about a cheap drum machine or sequencer? How about giving a kid anything but a $1000 iPad (or a 5 year old paperweight)
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
So right. I saw a DJ playing incredible chiptune off’a two original brick gameboys and two LSDJs and it was absolutely amazing. I wish I had the skill to do that.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Have you heard the music they made from programming floppy drives to read music at different speeds?
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I think somebody here is mixing up performing music and composing it. Which have almost nothing in common.
I haven’t touched Apple stuff for composition (don’t even know what it is), but I seriously doubt it’s going to take away all the headache of learning music theory.
And when you do know music theory, you can use plenty of things for digital music. It’s just hard.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think a lot of people here are confused and angry at clouds.