I THINK IMPROVISATION SOUNDS FUCKING COOL.

because you're dumb and you have shit taste, and now i'm going to explain why

I can't begin to understand why someone would like him as a character, no matter how well they articulate their opinion.

i can't imagine why you want me to explain myself then, because no matter how well i articulate myself, you're never going to be smart enough to realize that improvisation is for autistic idiots with no taste in music

you're never gonna figure that out--so why try

huh, that's a good question

I have already told you how improvisational music makes me feel, and why I like it.

no you haven't

anyway, improvisation is objectively bad in music for very simple and obvious reasons

the number of unique songs (of artistically-reasonable length) we can create is finite--so to is the number of note arrangements, but only a small fraction of those arrangements will sound enjoyable to the average person

in other words, we can arrange notes in many, many, many, different ways, but only some of them have value

finding a string of notes that sound good when played together is impressive--creating a song filled with good-sounding arrangements is even more impressive, because there's not too many arrangements available that will sound very good to us, so the effort put in to constructing that piece of music has value

that's composed music

then you have improvisation

instead of playing notes that sound right when played together, the artist instead chooses to play whatever notes that he "feels" are right--and this, somehow, is supposed to make the music itself sound good, despite the fact that it doesn't--which is a contradiction

on the off-chance that the improvisational artist plays a string of notes that actually DO sound good together, this is far less impressive than the artist who composes his music carefully, piece by piece, with focus--it's akin to a small child learning the alphabet, fucking the entire thing up, but managing to put one or two letters in the proper order, like, BCDEFASMTASZER--which is completely and totally wrong, but hey, at least B, C, D, E, and F are all in the right order!

no one rational finds that impressive, though--it's, objectively, nonsense
and no one should enjoy it

your whole argument is based around this stupid "improvisation is good because improvisation is good" argument

which doesn't help me understand the appeal of improvisation at all, and just makes you sound like a dumbass

You have absolutely NO CLUE what goes into studying improvisation, so you are incapable of forming an argument against it. You don't know what chord changes are, you don't know what an altered chord is, you don't know how to improvise

>he honestly think any of this matters

i mean, what a transparently shit argument

by your logic, since you have never written a review of anything in your life, you have no right to criticize any of my reviews

except that's stupid, because you totally have that right--my inability to create music does not preclude my ability to criticize what i'm hearing, you absolute shithead

and I can tell you right now if you attempted to improvise (even if you were an accomplished piano player) it would sound like complete shit

yes, it would

because all improvisation is shit

I am officially never arguing with Verbatim about music again because it is frustrating and a waste of my time I could spend listening to music.

i understand

not all of us can handle being wrong

Memebatim never changes.

I worked with a local musician who almost won a grammy a year ago. He does a genre called "Delta Blues". What did we end up recording along with guitar and vocals? A bucket of water, an ashtray, and us doing crowd vocals.

We somehow made that bucket of water sound amazing. some experimental things like that work. The song in the OP though really isn't for me, I don't enjoy listening to it.



I disagree with Verb on improvisation to a point. If you basically improv a whole song and it sounds bad, the fact it was "improv" doesn't redeem it and make it quality. But to be able to pull out an amazing guitar solo, or take a song in a new direction while flying blind? Well that's how some songs get written, by the artist just playing what comes to mind.

 I want you to go to the most populated forest in your area. When you get there i'll need you to scout out the mightiest of the forest's trees. I want you to chop the tree down, use the wood to build a bridge, and get the fuck over it.

This song was improvised, and it's quite fun to listen to.