This project is actually WAY more interesting than it's getting creddit for in this thread. They've done this experiment with a few different albums from Dillinger, to battles, meshuggah or the beatles. I think there are nine or ten albums/eps now and they lay each song out as the AI learns so...
I'm pretty sure it was the other way round. The label wanted a follow up to the highly successful Ziltoid album that still draws in new listeners over a decade later, but Devin just wanted to write pop music. Interviews from around the time all said how he wrote five big chorus's for every prog...
Do you think we would have eventually gotten the album if there wasnt so much backlash? I don't even listen to a whole lot of prog any more, but it would be nice to hear this.
Note sky blue was a bonus disk that he had no obligations to do, it was just what he wanted to write at the time. I remember interviews around then when he said for every heavy riff he wrote, he wrote five choruses, it makes sense. Also CoC was a fantastic release that had nothing to do with...
Definitely selfish for me to just want them to make inmazes part two, but neither of these songs are blowing me away so far. Inmazes will always be there and Ill always love it.
There's a video of this live at UK tech metal festival and it didn't sit well in a live setting. I guess those spoke vocals in the verse are a lot harder to pull off in a live setting.
Just a heads up that those origonal mixes on youtube were some kind of crushed down versions of the 5.1 mix and that's why they never quite worked. Dev was pretty upset on twitter, but I think it's sorted now.
^ do we have a date for that though? At the moment there is the vinyl re release of DTP called ERAS on the 8th June and Ocean Machine live on the 7th July.
He's plunging head first into writing at the moment, lots of different releases at the same time. Ocean machine live DVD next on the plate, coming out in a few months, July I think.
I do know one person who started out playing trumpet at a high level and then took up the drums and he is the best drummer that I've ever met, it's part of the reason I started this thread.
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This guy is also a percussionist all round, playing marimba ETC
Answers that arent answers are moot IMO. I get the idea between getting knowledge is easier than physical ability, but I'd imagine it being the other way around. I've known so many musicians that hit a wall as soon as it comes to simple theory, either struggling to learn or refusing too (in the...
As far as I know, any drummer that I have ever met started out just hitting drums and recreating what they've heard and then slowly improved as they dabble in theory and lessons, years later they'll have a comprehensive knowledge of rhythm, structure and music, but not harmony or tonality. For...
Does anyone else think about how far behind most modern guitarists are behind classically trained musicians? I remember a video of Dream theather playing the dance of eternity with an orchestra, not a famous orchestra orchestra or anything, it was just constructed for the gig. The Dance of...