If you could learn a style of music...

[RubberDucky451]

If you could learn a style of music, what would it be?

This question is a bit similar to "what's your favorite style" (but there are some obvious differences).

I would love to play piano for a jazz band, the spontaneity and energy would be sublime.

[Adymus]

Jazz, for sure.


Jazz is definately not my favorite style of music, I really don't even listen to it very much, but I could apply to what I learn from it to just about every other style of music I wanted to make.

[NeverAmI]

YouTube- Flamenco Guitar Barcelona

[WorkInProgress]

I'd go with jazz for the same reason. Though folk is my favorite genre

[Reon]

Would "Classical" be a style of music, the oldies are the best plus they have inspiration from every piece of music (except maybe rap and techno, but who knows?!) In all honestly, I'd like to learn the multiple styles of jazz better (I'm a trombone player) and perhaps some old school pop

[Alice?]

I'd want to be able to cover this song
YouTube- Tool - Lateralus
Like this guy:
YouTube- Tool - Lateralus Guitar Cover

That would be amazing.

[Ezro]

DnB all day...

[shadowdrums4]

Jazz. Some of the best drummers are jazz musicians at some point. Also their vibe players: AMAZING!

Also African hand drumming. I don't know if that counts as a style but I guess it would be West African. I could go into all these reasons but I'll stick with the history of swing and modern drumming comes from them.

[y4r5xeym5]

YouTube- Korean Girl Guitar Funk Jam

This. Easily.

[Alexk]

Classical Violin. Most definitely.

Would "Classical" be a style of music, the oldies are the best plus they have inspiration from every piece of music (except maybe rap and techno, but who knows?!)

Classical music has heavy influence on techno. Probably heavier then most modern genres. You'd be surprised.

[Puffy]

I just started playing Alto Sax, i'd love to be able to play the lead to this song on it one day.

YouTube- Ana - The Pixies

[Jah]

Jazz.
Probably the most versatile and musically demanding genre, thus mastering it would probably lead to the highest over-all musical ability.

or if it's by preference: Classical piano. (Playing Bach or Beethoven would be absolutely great.

[Fiddling Lass]

Well, I'm already playing the style I want, but whatever. I'm not quite proficient yet.
Irish and Scottish fiddle. Since "Celtic" is FAR too generalising. :B

[Trebuchet]

Jazz. Some of the best drummers are jazz musicians at some point. Also their vibe players: AMAZING!

Also African hand drumming. I don't know if that counts as a style but I guess it would be West African. I could go into all these reasons but I'll stick with the history of swing and modern drumming comes from them.

I second this.

[CoryJames]

I took piano lessons for 8 years. I can play freestyle jazz, freestyle blues (once you learn one the other is relatively easy, and some of the more serious business classical. Bach, Beethoven etc etc. I never really went for the lighthearted stuff...it just feels superficial for some reason. Ever since I began living at school 5 years ago I haven't gotten much of a chance to practice, (all prep schools say you can do EVERYTHING you like there, they don't pigeonhole you, but playing three varsity sports in three seasons and taking the most challenging courses and fitting in community service doesn't leave much time for music), but whenever I go home I try to play. In the right mindset, playing classical music is like a journey. Jazz and blues are more fun and playful.

[ashitaria]

Piano for Jazz for sure. :)

[threedrunkduck]

I would love to mix techno, jazz and hip hop

[5k17]

I would not want to learn to perfect an existing style, but rather create a new sub-genre, preferably something in the direction of Black Metal/Neoromanticism.

[Unfall]

Viking Metal :twisteddevil:

[Infernus1349]

Id want to be able to play technical death metal on either bass or guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIMW0aHN0ks

[DesertSmeagle]

I'd want to make the piano an extension of my body so that it basically is a second set of vocal cords.. That'd be great. Sometimes I'll be standing in the shower and an award winning melody will pop into my head. I can usually recreate it on my electric organ by ear, but it'd just be nice to have that thought be expressed through a piano of some sort.I wish my parents didn't maker play sports. I'd go back and put all that time practicing for sports and put it into music. I'd be a pro musician by now..... :slashnew:

[The Gopher]

I couldn't pick but something to do with electric ukuleles.

[EditorOne]

Doesn't anyone on here actually play?

First you learn to play the instrument, say, guitar.

Then, because you're an INTP, just about the time you say "OK, I know how it works," you explore style.

It's not "style first." It's "what note corresponds to this marking on the page?" Basics. How to deploy the basics is the style, but the basics are inevitable, otherwise you are simply a 'bad' jazz player or whatever. If you don't know the basics it is more difficult to study and learn the things that go into differentiating the various styles. And the more you know about the basics the more you can appreciate what various supertalented prodigy musicians do, like Dick Dale, untutored and left handed, learning to play guitar what everyone else would call backward and upside down. Or exactly what the Beach Boys did with chords that nobody else was really doing, that pushed some of their sounds beyond the predictable and gave (some of) their stuff a haunting quality. Or why George Harrison called augmented chords and seveths "the naughty chords." That's all "interesting" and you usually need to know where everyone starts to be able to best appreciate all that.

Then when you get bored with rock guitar or whatever, you try out another style.

And when you're bored with all of them, you pick up a saxophone and start over. Etc.

You are INTPs. There is an excellent chance your involvement in music will be a dabbling in everything for periods of time that correspond to your ability to master an instrument or a genre. And what you like to listen to may end up having nothing to do with what you like to play. Bo Diddley liked to listen to Broadway show tunes and Big Band music even though he played the most basic, driven, rock and roll based on blues you could imagine.

Just don't pick up an accordion. Really.

[Nerd.]

I would love to learn violin well enough to play Schnittke. Or similarly rockin' modern classical.