both at the same time, only reason I can play a lick of keys is just from tryna improvise melodies over my rhythms
There is no pretending to be an artist on the piano.
Iâll be another person voting for both. They arenât mutually exclusive.
You can even make a solid case for synths/electronics being a next stage in the chain of classical music composition. Every generation of composer built on the musical concepts of the previous generation. There have been a few points of âWell, where do we go from here? Weâve done it all.â The onset of electricity being used to make sound opened a tremendous frontier that even someone as late as Mahler couldnât begin to comprehend.
I agree with you in principle. But, I think, as a community, we are stalled in our progress by a couple things:
First, we have become so accustomed to beat-based music production (sounds placed on a grid, phrases of 2,4,8,16 bar, etc.) that weâve forgotten that sounds can be arranged in more organic ways.
Second, we have conflated novelty with originality. With sample-based production, we can take any sounds and turn them into âmusicâ. The ability to continuously create works that are technically ânewâ gives a false impression of progress.
Truth
Please elaborate.
Learn piano it will open up what you can do in all directions of music (and donât skip on music theory )