Well you raise an interesting point I think. It may very well be that SRV and Hendrix couldn't play outside their niche. However, herein lies yet another problem. If an artist does decide to play music outside of their niche, they often get slack for it. There are a few musicians out there (if you can call them musicians) like Cher, Madonna, Neil Young (who shouldn't be mentioned in the same line) that have managed to diversify their sound over the years. Niel Young has dabbled in country, rock, blues. But, for a lot of artists, changing their style is considered 'selling out'. Can you imagine Metallica play country? How about the Dixie Chicks playing metal? My point is that once you've established a trademark sound for yourself or your band, it is very hard to change things. And in many cases, your audience or followers won't want you to change things. They want you to continue writing the same **** over and over. Therefore, even if you have the desire and motivation to want to write new and refreshing stuff (by learning more theory or whatever), there are societal constraints working against you. Just a thought.
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Well you raise an interesting point I think. It may very well be that SRV and Hendrix couldn't play outside their niche. However, herein lies yet another problem. If an artist does decide to play music outside of their niche, they often get slack for it. There are a few musicians out there (if you can call them musicians) like Cher, Madonna, Neil Young (who shouldn't be mentioned in the same line) that have managed to diversify their sound over the years. Niel Young has dabbled in country, rock, blues. But, for a lot of artists, changing their style is considered 'selling out'. Can you imagine Metallica play country? How about the Dixie Chicks playing metal? My point is that once you've established a trademark sound for yourself or your band, it is very hard to change things. And in many cases, your audience or followers won't want you to change things. They want you to continue writing the same **** over and over. Therefore, even if you have the desire and motivation to want to write new and refreshing stuff (by learning more theory or whatever), there are societal constraints working against you. Just a thought.
Well you raise an interesting point I think. It may very well be that SRV and Hendrix couldn't play outside their niche. However, herein lies yet another problem. If an artist does decide to play music outside of their niche, they often get slack for it. There are a few musicians out there (if you can call them musicians) like Cher, Madonna, Neil Young (who shouldn't be mentioned in the same line) that have managed to diversify their sound over the years. Niel Young has dabbled in country, rock, blues. But, for a lot of artists, changing their style is considered 'selling out'. Can you imagine Metallica play country? How about the Dixie Chicks playing metal? My point is that once you've established a trademark sound for yourself or your band, it is very hard to change things. And in many cases, your audience or followers won't want you to change things. They want you to continue writing the same **** over and over. Therefore, even if you have the desire and motivation to want to write new and refreshing stuff (by learning more theory or whatever), there are societal constraints working against you. Just a thought.