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Originally Posted by Dave Ferris  I'll second that amen.
On the other hand.....the overall musicianship (certainly in Jazz and Classical music) far exceeds the standard of 40 or 50 years ago, at least on a technical level. Many great musicians and vocalists are out there today, (literally too many) working away at their craft. One just has to make more of an effort to sort through the sea of mediocrity and the pop culture sheeplike mentality to discover them. |
If by "technique" you mean the ability to go wheedely-wheedely-wee really, really fast, then maybe. But there is a hell of a lot more to technique than the ability to go wheedely-wheedely-wee really, really fast. In fact, that would be pretty low on my list. If I want to hear scales run at high speed, I can program that in a computer.