Jack Stamp - Why Music Matters

you can teach people how to play music and special aspects of it.

You CAN'T teach some to throw a 90 mph plus fastball

for everyone who thinks that things such as marching band is easy you need to youtube search "DCI Athletes" and that'll shut you up ;D

Today, my band director asked my class to look up this video. I thought it was just something that I wouldn't watch because I just didn't want to. But I decided I would. It's a great video talking how you have to give your all in order to play your instrument well. As in the words of my band director, "The band is only is good as its worst player."

I'm not writing this comment to bash you or your reasoning, but only to inform so please don't take it the wrong way. One reason we need these acoustic instruments is simply because of the timbre. Each instrument has so much color to the sound that a keyboard or any digital interface cannot, or will not, ever be able to match. Any woodwind player can tell you how much the color of sound changes from the low register to the high one, and without even talking about materials

we need music....but, why do we need old traditional acoustic instruments like oboes, bassoons, clarinets, etc. to make sounds that can be provided digitally? Nowadays, keyboards are SO good the average listener can't tell a difference. These instruments take SO long to master. Using digital replication the musician can concentrate on making music instead of making a correct embouchure. HUH.....anybody?

Because being a violinist and euphoniumist, using keyboard is not playing with the heart. Music is pure emotion from the player, he/she expresses themself through their music. Plus, digital sounds like crap to me, there's nothing like the real thing. Have you ever seen a professional symphony orchestra perform? You should, then you will not be thinking like this. We will always have the traditional as you refer to them instruments, digital cannot compete with acoustic, nor will it ever.

@dafontenot are you kidding me? part of the discipline that comes out of music education, is not just mastering your individual instrument, but it is mastering your instrument with 100+ other people playing a different instrument. digital keyboards are great for writing music, for experimenting with how a piece might work and sound, but in order to make music, to give the proper emotion to a piece, you need musicians working together with their individual instruments.

you upset me

Discipline.......I understand that Protools and VST instruments are available and all.....but we have to learn the past to propel forward.....and also.....Electronically produced instruments can be out of some school system budgets.

And another it's up to how the musician learns their instrument to "master" it.....

Because there are things you can only learn from playing those instruments instead of just playing the keyboards that SOUND like them.