So this is the last question which is from Ryan on Facebook he's asking is guitar music
dying everything I hear on the radio it's mainly production based and I'm
worried that there isn't much room for success in pop music of a band interesting
question - yeah I would say it's evolution I'm not sure if it's
dying it's evolution I mean I have a guitar shop and there was a big trend where
everyone's buying electric guitars and then of course Ed Sheeran and Taylor
Swift and Jack Johnson and all I kind of stuff then all of a sudden everyone's
buying acoustic guitars and nobody gives a shit about electric guitars you know
back when Kings of Leon released their album everyone wants an electric guitar
so it's always going to have fits and starts there's always going to have that I mean
to me this brings up a whole totally other question which is music
education today I mean how on earth guitar music can be
dying with the amount of music education that's around and for me the reason for
that is because music education is not good enough and that is not picking on
any school in particular that is sayin music education across the country isn't
good enough and the reason for that is because back in the day when you know
I've been involved in music education for 20 years and I was teaching at a
school in Guildford when I was 19 and 20 so you know I've been in this game for a
long long time it was different back then because of supply and demand
because there was definitely there was not as many people involved in the music
industry in the music education side to it the numbers were tiny now
there's like performing arts courses doing degrees and that's all fine
because the supply and demand is different but everyone's got a degree in music
education in being a guitarist or a bass player but they're not being
trained for success they've been trained in education like the amount of CVs that
comes through to me that's got a degree in music and I'm like I don't give a fuck I
literally couldn't care like what's a degree in music it's what you learned when you
were there so I wanna know where did you study and what did you learn what you are
like as a personality so it's a much bigger question
because how guitar music can be dying with the amount of people that are out
there doing it and people aren't obviously consuming it because it's not
fashionable but if you're looking at the charts as it were then yeah guitar
music is not in the charts yeah but at the same point when I was a kid I liked
Rage Against the Machine Pantera Metallica Megadeth anthrax face no more
like none of em were in the charts you wouldn't say they were not popular
they still tour the world they're massive it's just that they're not on
radio but then they're never going to be on radio so it all depends I think
it's more important to find your niche and actually I think guitar music isn't
I don't think it's dying I just think it's just we living in a time now where people can
make music for free and so therefore the art of songwriting
is different I mean I talked about art quite a lot this week and people gave me
a bit of a hard time about art and I'm like I'm not dissing art I'm just looking
at general consumption and general consumption for me is what people want
and some people want 60-minute prog rock songs and some people want metal songs
and some people want so it's just finding your niche and tapping into it
this is the perfect time to do that which is brilliant so is it dying
I don't think so you know I know that there's currently right now 1,500 to
2,000 musicians who are on a course in this city alone who are musicians so not
really I don't think it dying I just think we're in a time now where it isn't
as prevalent in the charts then it's not on the radio because what is fashionable
now and it may come back and it may not it may die out but it will still be able
to make music using our instruments and sell it through our lifetime yeah
definitely because I think because people appreciate talent and if you make
something which is good enough then people will appreciate it so if you make
a song which is that good it doesn't matter whether you've made on a lute or
a guitar or a synth it doesn't make any difference if you make great music
people will buy into it so you know I just think I think there's a lot of
musicians out there who aren't who aren't writing good
enough songs with their guitars is what I would say - and as you say as well
even the thing that are playing on the radio like music so accessible all around
to the radio industry there's a lot of pop music outside - yeah so if you want to go and if
you want to go and get 10 million followers and it's going to take time
but you know for you to get 10 thousand followers that allow you to do this and
build your audience to ten thousand people who allow you to
tour make music monetize it in some way and have a career doing that to me
that's the question how you're going to do that rather than just
I want to get in the charts is guitar music the right way of doing it and say if you're going to
do that then that is completely against the art side to it that's more
a case of just going by a synth and start writing some songs and getting a stuff
out there so for me guitar music is less popular than it
used to be and when I was growing up everyone wanted the play as fast as
they possibly can and nowadays it's just a different trend but you know
evolution in music is just a thing happens and we are just going to a trend
at the moment but you go and you know see about buying guitar
there's plenty of people buying guitars it's just their acoustic guitars so you
know if you look at the biggest artists in the world right now
Ed Sheeran plenty guitar on that it's just acoustic guitar if you look at Adele
biggest artist in the world piano and guitar plenty on that so it's out there
it's just a case of writing good enough music using that guitar I don't think it's just
a fashion thing at the moment is not as fashionable and I'm sure it'll come back I'm
sure people will go back to their Metallica riffs who are now 15 and
then all of a sudden there'll be some kind of new wave of rock or metal at
some point quite soon I mean I remember having this exact conversation when
Metallica had basically done the Black Album then they've done load or
whatever it's called and then all of a sudden everyone was like oh it's
not the same and metal is not the same anymore and then new metal came out and
then everyone hated everyone who would like the old school didn't like it but
new metal's massive so it always going to be rehashes
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