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Originally Posted by piano  Classical music RULES. 
I grew up a metal head (hug big fan) and studied classical piano and classical orchestration.
Truely, when you know how orchestration works, you realize just how much of an ABERRATION modern rock stuff is. LOL Ya, I love it.
In a modern rock mix there are instruments actually FIGHTING for sonic space and we have to go in and surgically eq them to have them fit well in a mix.
In classical, if it sounds like crap, instead of tweaking the hell out of it, you change the orchestration. What a concept! |
Well-observed.
One of the interesting things about trad jazz (New Orleans style, what was sometimes called Dixieland when I was a kid) is that the soloists in that originally all improv music evolved a somewhat elaborate etiquette for sharing the limelight -- as
well as challenging someone for the solo space.
Of course, that was before amplification. Nowadays, whoever has the biggest, nastiest amplification, wins.
Still -- there are important lessons for rock/modern music players there.
When I first started recording, I'd been playing in various punk and no wave bands for a few years. And in the bands I was in, everyone pretty much played, all the time. Sometimes full out, all the time.
As I learned to mix, over and over, I was pleasantly surprised by how much drama you could put into a mix simply by cutting parts or developing a dynamic flow from section to section that emphasized one instrument or group while de-emphasizing another.
To this day, when I'm listening to a project in progress (I'm my only client these days) and thinking,
what more can I add? -- I often, now, by habit, flip the question into, what can I take
out of some other section to create more impact in
this section. (Of course, you can get into habits, there, too, if you do the same thing in every song. But that's an
ever-present danger, period.)