My Take On: Bands

I have no idea as to why people dedicate themselves to bands. After running 7.5 miles and seeing several things that no man should see on the Bay to Breakers run including men dressed up a corn, Jewish bands, and little Bo Peep and his (that's right his) sheep (both male and female) i went to a friends house and listened to them practicing. They've all been playing for years and didn't sound that bad. After an hour of practice they had me recorded them on computer. While they got ready to play again, I ran the program through a converter to split apart the instruments and then make sheet musing out of the score. After converting to the right keys I then set up his electronic piano to sound like a guitar for treble cleft and bass for lower and had his older brother play for them. When they heard him playing the consensus was that he sounded better than they did, but that they liked playing more. Just to try it out, I printed sheet music for the first and second guitars and the bass for freebird of guitar hero two fame and had the brother play it. Compared to the actual musicians playing on stage, he sounded better on his first try.

This made me wonder, why do people like bands? A single pianist can play the same music better, with more feeling, with fewer mistakes, and can memorize the music in less time such as freebird including the solo. Inversely no band has been able to play advanced piano music such as flight of the bumble bee even though they have two more people and each only needs to play a third of the notes...

There are those who say that synthesized music lacks soul and feeling. However piano music is called the gateway to the soul and the perfect way to express feelings. Just by laying another finger on the key, a piano can go from happy to sad or angry and the same is true for synthesized instruments.

My Take: hire a ten year old Asian kid with a synthesizer to play all your music and just pretend to play for an audience and as you 'play' insanely hard music perfectly at every concert and make millions.