Re: question of the day - dec 11

Learnwell <learnwell08@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good thing you have your stable of young adolescent boys to accept
your every word without question.

Can you play as well as them? Conversely can you teach others to come
close? Pony up.

You've attempted to demonstrate your ability to dissect what, according
to your own admission, is a fairly simple piece of music. ("You'd think
we were debating a Bach lute suite here..."). You failed miserably
where other posters at all playing levels succeeded.

You can talk all you want about what you may or may not have
accomplished elsewhere, but here you've come up empty, and your attitude
sucks to boot.

You apparently can't tell the sound of a bass from that of a guitar, and
it escaped your notice that if a *single*, highly distorted instrument
were playing two notes separated by a diminished fifth interval, the
result would be a horrible cacophony of intermodulation distortion.

How do we know, for example, that the students illustrated in your
videos aren't a small subset of the total in your classes? It's
entirely conceivable that the students selected for these performances
were *already* good players before they enrolled in your class?

Besides, how well your students play is more or less irrelevant in this
newsgroup. What about you? Where are your performances? I'd like to
see you vs. Nil.

p.s....I've heard Nil's playing. My money's on him.


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