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Originally Posted by SSC
I'm not going to bother going into "A good piece of..." argument because "good" music doesn't exist. Only music exists.
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I disagree. While it may be near impossible for people to agree on what 'good' is, it certainly exists.
I've seen the difference between good and not good in my own music. I was working on a song (still am, actually) and the 'b' section was giving me trouble. My instructor pointed out how it wasn't working, and I struggled for about a month trying to get this to work. I had it all written out, it was just causing a lot of problems along the rest of the song.
My instructor said something to me, he said "I'm not convinced it has to go into 12/8 there." And I went home and worked on it, and came up with something completely different, and it worked a million times better. The rest of the song came much more easily (I'm still working on it, but it's a lot better off)
If there were no such thing as 'good' music then the 12/8 section would have worked just as well as what I have now. This is what, to me, destroys your whole philosophy that "There is no such thing as good music" as well as the numerous statements you've made regarding the "write what you want" business (I'm paraphrasing) Simply put, I would not be writing my best music ever if there were no such thing as good music, and my music would not be near as good as it is if I just wrote what I wanted and left it there. Additionally, as much as I have improved in the two years I've been here, I know I have a very long way to go still.