An unambiguous comment is better and even thumb up/down is better than the little faces. I notice that YouTube now hides the thumb down. The thing about thumb down on YouTube is that before they hid them I often wondered what kind of asshole thumbs down good music.
An unambiguous comment is better and even thumb up/down is better than the little faces. I notice that YouTube now hides the thumb down. The thing about thumb down on YouTube is that before they hid them I often wondered what kind of asshole thumbs down good music.
Ummm, one person's good music is another persons turd coil. Nearly all female vocalists give me splitting headaches, and the grating harmonic simplicity of most pop is just intolerable. But that's what most people like. Four chords, not tempo or key changes, peculiar whiney singing.
YT probably hid the thumb down because it isn't Happy.
I'm considering Fred Sokolow's zoom, "Learn a Million Songs in 90 Minutes" chord progressions class tomorrow just because they are so useful for jam sessions.
At my level, jam sessions are a social event, rather than fine music, but social events can be a good thing, especially as we age.
Sure, we all have our musical tastes. If I like it, I give it an encouraging thumb up. If not, I scroll on kind of like at a live event I walk on rather than shout, "you suck!"
I've listened to your music, and I like it. As a child I listened to classical music and as a young man listened to quite a bit of jazz. My hearing no longer supports it and I now listen to "Americana" and some world music. Vocals are another musical instrument since I often can't understand the words. You might not like some of the musicians that I like but I don't know that you'd give them a thumbs down.
I can tell the difference between "it sucks" and "it's not my cup of tea." Jazz was a rough one for me, I heard so much lousy jazz before I found some performers I liked ... later I figured out that jazz never "takes out the trash," you don't see mediocrities fade out as they do in classical. You've probably never heard of Meyerbeer but he was more played that most late Romantics you have heard of. Light opera, forgotten.
Musical tastes are odd. I'm not much into blues but there are some like Johnny Winter (RIP) I am crazy about.
Electronic pitch correction that gave us pretty faces lip synching to their studio pitch corrected vocals in live performance was a curse.
I'm not sure where you draw the line for modern singing styles. I am certainly more inclined to listen to Doc Watson than FM dial pop music. In my truck I've got SiriusXM which of late I've been listening to the Outlaw Country channel which is actually far more diverse than the name implies. On Spotify I listen to people you may have never heard of, but I don't think that they are what you are thinking of for modern singing styles.
An unambiguous comment is better and even thumb up/down is better than the little faces. I notice that YouTube now hides the thumb down. The thing about thumb down on YouTube is that before they hid them I often wondered what kind of asshole thumbs down good music.
Ummm, one person's good music is another persons turd coil. Nearly all female vocalists give me splitting headaches, and the grating harmonic simplicity of most pop is just intolerable. But that's what most people like. Four chords, not tempo or key changes, peculiar whiney singing.
YT probably hid the thumb down because it isn't Happy.
Speaking of the same four chords. https://youtu.be/zIXlz5Pt1Dc
I'm considering Fred Sokolow's zoom, "Learn a Million Songs in 90 Minutes" chord progressions class tomorrow just because they are so useful for jam sessions.
At my level, jam sessions are a social event, rather than fine music, but social events can be a good thing, especially as we age.
Sure, we all have our musical tastes. If I like it, I give it an encouraging thumb up. If not, I scroll on kind of like at a live event I walk on rather than shout, "you suck!"
I've listened to your music, and I like it. As a child I listened to classical music and as a young man listened to quite a bit of jazz. My hearing no longer supports it and I now listen to "Americana" and some world music. Vocals are another musical instrument since I often can't understand the words. You might not like some of the musicians that I like but I don't know that you'd give them a thumbs down.
I can tell the difference between "it sucks" and "it's not my cup of tea." Jazz was a rough one for me, I heard so much lousy jazz before I found some performers I liked ... later I figured out that jazz never "takes out the trash," you don't see mediocrities fade out as they do in classical. You've probably never heard of Meyerbeer but he was more played that most late Romantics you have heard of. Light opera, forgotten.
Musical tastes are odd. I'm not much into blues but there are some like Johnny Winter (RIP) I am crazy about.
But modern singing styles make no sense to me.
Electronic pitch correction that gave us pretty faces lip synching to their studio pitch corrected vocals in live performance was a curse.
I'm not sure where you draw the line for modern singing styles. I am certainly more inclined to listen to Doc Watson than FM dial pop music. In my truck I've got SiriusXM which of late I've been listening to the Outlaw Country channel which is actually far more diverse than the name implies. On Spotify I listen to people you may have never heard of, but I don't think that they are what you are thinking of for modern singing styles.