Classical piano prodigy Ethan Bortnick who quit classical music to create his own style of classical pop music. When he was around 5 he toured late night talk shows showing off his classical chops and his ability to learn or write a new song in seconds. Now he creates music in his home studio and shares it on tic tok and YouTube.

I enjoy Tenacious D, and was excited to listen to what I thought was a new song of theirs when I saw it pop up on YT. About halfway through I thought "this is awful, sounds like one of the shittier Beatles songs or something"... went to description / comments and that was precisely it. Don't know that I'd actually heard the original before, but it has that classic "lyrics that sound vaguely deep but are utter gibberish" that the Beatles were so good at. Granted, that's a LOT of pop music...

Yes! 😄

I only ever listen to my "liked" songs on Spotify, and only sometimes accidentally hear new songs in roundabout ways (like this one I heard because of Charming Jo's cover) or if I go exploring in Spotify intentionally looking for new stuff.

As an artist I can totally see the value in creating new song styles by using comp lyrics. It is just that bad decisions are made when trying to perform said songs live. They need to work out new versions of the song for live performances and not just wing it by deleting words or lip synching.

I made a new song & video - I have this feeling you will understand

https://youtu.be/APeovaanpRw

Your video, John Cleese and Eric Idle's New Song - "F*** Selfies", has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

That was cool that they tried to a brand new song by accident to the audience. Great tune!

I wouldn't put to much faith in this video. I'm guessing it's just a video they put together to generate interest in their new song "bum bum" which just dropped yesterday. You notice in the vid how you keep seeing bum bum on the wall in the foreground. Seems like the type of thing they would do. Hope we are in for a round of interesting videos
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/die-antwoord-bum-bum?utm_source=vicefbuk

One thing I liked about that in particular:
She looked like she was having fun, even when she wasn't so good.

I've played bass (electric, never tried an upright) for about 15 years. I only got *really* serious about it after getting Rocksmith 2014 -- went from playing once in a while to almost every day. I'm a LOT better than I was, can play a LOT of songs at least decently (say, 97%+ accuracy in Rocksmith), but still nowhere near as skilled as some.

BUT, it has been FUN every step of the way. Especially after trying Rocksmith, which presents "sheet music" in a visual, tab-like format that I can now effectively sight-read (it takes some getting used to, but works great once you figure it out). A lot of people are reluctant to try learning an instrument because they think it won't be fun, particularly in the early going. They think they will suck.

Well, in my experience that is half right. Yeah, you're going to suck (I certainly did). But it is loads of fun, in spite of that. And you get better fast -- the human brain is a pretty amazing thing. One day, you try a new song and think "damn, that is so hard I'll *never* be able to play it right". Then a month or two later you think "oh yeah, I should give that a second try" and all of a sudden it is very doable. Awesome to have those little moments of revelation when you realize that "hey, I am definitely getting better at this!"

Absolute worst part about MP3s is the death of the album.
You can't just sit down and listen to the album any more.
Everything is about the Single. A musician's music is best understood as a whole piece not just a sectional.
To this end, new songs being released these days are all about the short 3 minute song and leaves the listening experience behind.
I miss the album, the B-side, and the other songs that came with that one single.

@ChaosEngine

First world fuckin'.. PROOOBLEMs.

That's my new song. I made it to remind everyone that.

OMFG complaining about the inaccuracy of a parody is pedantic as fuuuck.

But I mean.. that's what the Sift is all about, it seems.

@NaMeCaF I enjoyed the vid. Even tho I already knew about the situation from @EMPIRE's Factual Gamer vid.

But you probably have a problem with all the facts in that vid too. Not factual, enough.

"The performance from the Valve & Bethesda guys IN REAL TIME was WAAAY more factual" right?

Interesting. I find that I learn MUCH better with Rocksmith than I do from a straight tab. I hate the difficulty levels; I'd rather just show ALL of the notes ALL of the time (although that is easily fixed by just selecting the whole song and turning up the difficulty to 100%), but riff repeater plus slowing a song down to 60% or so (depending on how tough the bits are) has been my new ideal way of learning more difficult songs.

But for bass at least, I find that I'm able to sight-read the majority of songs to 97%+ accuracy. Probably 9 out of 10 new songs that I try, even if I've never looked at a tab before, I can get that kind of accuracy with the Rocksmith note highway / tab hybrid.

I do agree that sometimes it would be nice to be able to pause and just show a pure tab, to have more time to prepare and anticipate what things are coming. I know of two things to assist with that:

1) I know that there is a program that somebody put together that can read Rocksmith .psarc files and automatically create a tab text file from the song's arrangements. I can't recall the name of it, but I know it exists -- I've seen people talking about it at www.customsforge.com, the community for creating custom Rocksmith DLC tracks. I'll do some searching and see if I can find the exact name of that program for you.

2) As an alternative to Rocksmith if you prefer reading tabs but like playing along with the recording, check out "Go Playalong", which you can use to sync a guitar pro or powertab format tab with an .mp3 or other audio file and do Rocksmith-like features like slowing down, etc. but with the cursor scrolling through a traditional text-based tab. I sometimes use this also, but overall I prefer Rocksmith now. Works quite a bit like GuitarPro, but the cursor scrolling through the song is more intelligent about keeping bars ahead of your current position in view, and most importantly it lets you sync up to an actual recording rather than just playing back MIDI.

Thanks mate! Song coming, I think we can all get excited about a new song

Snicker.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/03/snowden-drops-four-new-songs-at-sxsw.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bo
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His "style" is to take elements of existing movies and genres and putting them together to what I'll call generously "homages" to the originals. Tarantino is a remixer, taking samples and putting them together into a new song. Sounds familiar but is somewhat new.
He is very, very good at that and can write interesting dialogue (the first half of Death Proof was nothing but). He also starts to believe his own hype (as seen in Django Unchained, a good but way too mastubatory in nature film) and risks to develop the same relationship to Christoph Waltz (a very good, distinctive and interesting actor) that Tim Burton has with Johnny Depp.
I love pretty much all his movies but he certainly has to watch out that he doesn't trip over his own ego and reputation, both bigger than good for him.