Pick 1: Play every instrument or Speak every language

[Black Ball]

Very unlikely and I like I said it'd be due to being borderline retarded and socially inept.

Yall do realize top 40 type music is not the only audience where bank is made in music?

And given your scenario, there are people who speak 6 or more language and live in slums.

This may very well be true, but I was just pointing out how much you're overrating the ability to play instruments. Being able to write, create & arrange good music is a far more valuable talent. Great musicians are mostly guns for hire.

 

[Poitier]

This may very well be true, but I was just pointing out how much you're overrating the ability to play instruments. Being able to write, create & arrange good music is a far more valuable talent. Great musicians are mostly guns for hire.

I don't think being able to write and arrange good music is more valuable but I've already talked about both of this skillsets at length in this thread. And given what OP said, I'd be able to arrange music with god like ability given I am the foremost authority on musical theory and have the uncanny ability to understand music at its most subtle nuances.

As far as songwriter, not like those are in limited supply and if I want to circumvent that I simply go into EDM, make OSTs, or go into high brow music for the wealthy.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

The amount of money I could make as a World Translator.

 

[daboywonder2002]

Speak every language easy.

How can I profit off of being able to play every instrument? You didn't say how good you were, but being fluent in every language has many perks.

I could go anywhere in the world and communicate with the people.

Bruh do you know how much touring you can do just by being in a band. going to every city and country. I dont think you understand the power of music

 

[Hejdå]

Language

I'd be talking shyt to people in dead languages like latin

 

[Poitier]

Bruh do you know how much touring you can do just by being in a band. going to every city and country. I dont think you understand the power of music

One of my former coworkers went to Juilliard and now travels the world playing the trombone and makes solid income. Like I said, the levels of incompetent would have to be through the rough to not live a good life doing something that quite frankly beats almost any other occupation.

 

[SheWantTheD]

Bruh do you know how much touring you can do just by being in a band. going to every city and country. I dont think you understand the power of music

Dude never said anything about being good or good enough to play in a band, just said the ability to play every instrument.

 

[Black Ball]

I don't think being able to write and arrange good music is more valuable but I've already talked about both of this skillsets at length in this thread. And given what OP said, I'd be able to arrange music with god like ability given I am the foremost authority on musical theory and have the uncanny ability to understand music at its most subtle nuances.

As far as songwriter, not like those are in limited supply and if I want to circumvent that I simply go into EDM, make OSTs, or go into high brow music for the wealthy.

Playing every instrument with god-like ability & accuracy has nothing to do with arranging music. You can read music & play the notes perfectly. There's plenty of savant/robotic music players out there without a creative bone in there body.

 

[Poitier]

Playing every instrument with god-like ability & accuracy has nothing to do with arranging music. You can read music & play the notes perfectly. There's plenty of savant/robotic music players out there without a creative bone in there body.

Which is why he said UNDERSTAND every nuance of music which is arrangement. You're trying way too hard, here.

 

[Poitier]

And no, there are not "plenty" of music savants who can play every instrument including vocals walking on Earth

 

[PlainSight]

Playing every instrument with god-like ability & accuracy has nothing to do with arranging music. You can read music & play the notes perfectly. There's plenty of savant/robotic music players out there without a creative bone in there body.

You have a point

I mean, I consider myself an artist as well as a musician, but I've met great pianists, singers etc who can't write or compose. Maybe if it is specified that said ability comes with the creativity associated with artistic ability.

Beyonce may just be a singer and performer but she at least showed her capacity for understanding artistry when you look at how well put together something like Lemonade was from a full artistic perspective - visually, audibly etc. Singers who are technically better than her and can play a bunch of instruments probably wouldn't be able to put something like that together. There are millions of pianists who can play an illustrious Beethoven piece, but there's only one Beethoven who can compose such a piece.

There's a certain understanding of dynamics when it comes to composing and even performing existing music that is different from just learning how to play a piece. I think in essence, neither you or poitier are wrong - just coming at it from different angles.

 

[Black Ball]

Which is why he said UNDERSTAND every nuance of music which is arrangement. You're trying way too hard, here.

And no, there are not "plenty" of music savants who can play every instrument including vocals walking on Earth

1. I didn't say play every instrument. Just that they were a great player of an instrument with no other viable talent.

2. When I say arrange, I mean in a creative sense(artistically), not in a mathematical sense(scientific)

Some of the most revered music created in some genres would be considered technically flawed. There is no science to something just working on an artistic & emotional level. Being slightly offbeat or out of note on purpose.

 

[Prince Mongo]

I make beats so playing every instrument. I'd be the most talented artist in the world

 

[Poitier]

1. I didn't say play every instrument. Just that they were a great player of an instrument with no other viable talent.

2. When I say arrange, I mean in a creative sense(artistically), not in a mathematical sense(scientific)


Some of the most revered music created in some genres would be considered technically flawed. There is no science to something just working on an artistic & emotional level. Being slightly offbeat or out of note on purpose.

This scenario is about the godlike ability to play any instrument and understand music at its very core so I'm not sure why you keep bringing up some savant who can only play a tuba or whatever.

Which is also why OP said you'd have a good ear and understanding....And like I said in one of my very first post, finding good songwriters isn't hard to do or even needed in 2016.

And yes some legends are technically flawed then you have people like Aphex Twin and Phillip Glass, both of whom pale in comparison to what is being described in OP, and are still rich.

 

[Ribbs]

Instrument. I wanna be Prince.