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Originally Posted by OldSkool  Howe much you wanna bet I could teach my 7-year old to use piano roll or a pad device like trigger finger to do the beats part of any modern dance-pop tunes? I am amazed you find that part implausible...check out this little guy: YouTube - Jacob Armen drum solo, seven years old!!. Maybe you don't have any kids. |
That's not really the point. There are 7 years olds who can play any Rachmaninov concerto with relative ease. But how many 7 year olds (let alone 17, 27 or 37 year olds) can write a song that millions of people enjoy listening to? Not many. Maybe that doesn't mean anything to you, but to us songwriters who want to have our songs heard by as many people as we can, it means a lot. As a songwriter, that's what I'm fascinated by, the formula behind a hit song. Production techniques are a whole other animal and they interest me as well. But I feel there are more great producers than there are great songwriters.