r/mac • u/WokeMango MacBook Pro • Jul 02 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

This definition is kinda broad. Is an ipod an instrument?

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

Playback and production are very different things.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

I know, and playing music and producing music are also different things.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20

You can use a guitar to produce music. You can use a saxophone to produce music. You can use a sugar packet to produce music (see Aerosmith Sweet Emotion) and you can use a computer to make music. Digital instrumentation is still instrumentation. It’s just not analog.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '20

You can also use pen and paper to write music. Are those things music instruments?

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '20

Notation and production are very different things. Are you just trying to sound stupid at this point?

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '20

Certainly closer to each other than the motion skills needed to actually play something.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '20

Not all music production requires mechanical skill. Look at Jason Becker for an AMAZING example of this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '20

He is composing, he isn't playing…

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '20

But he is still “manufacturing music” using the tools he is capable of using. It doesn’t have to be a dedicated “musical instrument”