Why don't more black folks play guitar now adays?

[Clayton Endicott]

the POWERS dont want live instruments to ever become the standard again because legitimate sound vibration heals the spirit........digital music is not actual soundwaves, its binary code that imitates sound vibration.

I know it sounds absurd but synthesized sounds are literally little 0s and 1s flying out of the speaker and hitting your body like tiny pieces of shattered glass. This affects us immensely on a subconscious level.

Yep. It like the difference between a nourishing home cooked meal and a hot pocket.

 

[Neuromancer]

Then what is this:

Nice drop.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I learned how to play it in high school but didn’t show enough interest to continue.

I was an alto sax player and was played the sex since 11 and was even part of the church band. Haven’t played my sax since I was 19 or 20.

 

[Pazzy]

I swear folks straight up tell on themselves regularly on here without realizing it. you're doing too much now. What or who really inspired the thread? I've been noticing a pattern here.

I see you are claiming Brooklyn too. Are you really from Brooklyn? Where are you originally from breh? Do you know how many musicians are in the nyc area let alone Brooklyn out of all places.

I'm laughing because off the top, myself, older brother, one of my older cousins who is a female, one of my homies and etc actually own guitars. I cant speak for either them except myself but I dont know how well they play. I got one on my 18th birthday and been learning off and on. Actually about to go to guitar lessons in a few hours at guitar city as a bday gift. Technically, I own two because my cousin gave me one she rented eons ago and didnt give back. Its an acoustic.


Something is fishy about this thread though.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

What are the chances we come into contact with someone who plays an instrument, and mentions they play said instrument?

Unless they become a friend, you have no idea what their hobbies are.

We have no idea how many black people play the guitar.

 

[Thanos]

It's not that many people aren't doing it, y'all aren't in the spaces where folks play them. I'm hearing a lot of ohh in the mainstream or in hip hop, but there is more than that when it comes to music.

 

[DamienWayne]

I have a guitar learned a few chords and gave up, any good sources to learn ?

 

[Pazzy]

It's not that many people aren't doing it, y'all aren't in the spaces where folks play them. I'm hearing a lot of ohh in the mainstream or in hip hop, but there is more than that when it comes to music.

The only way someone doesn't know a musician is if they dont have any friends or interact with people. Hate to say it but music is one of those universal things where someone is doing it. Not everyone is going to come out and openly say they are a musician. Just saying.

 

[Mindfield333]

Why play an instrument when you can just use a computer to make the sound for you?

It's sad, but true.

Doesn't HER play the guitar?? Also one of the members of Chloe and Halle plays the guitar as well. Not sure of any male singers, though.

Leon bridges & Thundercat play the guitar

 

[Mowgli]

We used to embarrass cacs on the regular with the strings.







Why don't we play guitar like that anymore?

Because white people took artistic resources out of many schools black people go to. Learning music is no longer encouraged

 

[MrRDU]

Steve Lacy

 

[the cool]

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

I'm trying to get a Les Paul by early next year.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

I doubt that. Especially considering how popular westcoast hip hop/gfunk was back in those days. Gfunk and 90's southern rap incorporated strings and chords heavy in their tracks. Guys like George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Rick James etc would regularly make cameo appearances in music vids or be featured on tracks in the 90's. Hell, even Dre and Death Row used to bring bands in the studio and use live instrumentation to record tracks. So I don't think you'd be considered anymore of a weirdo back then, than you would now. Most of those rappers from back then didn't even grow up in hip hop since hip hop was in it's infancy when 90's rappers were kids. Those rappers actually grew up in funk, soul, Blues, rock, RnB, etc.

What I do sorta agree with you is, that because of YT and of the availability of content in todays era, it's easier find black rock bands nowdays than in the 90's. But there was a time where popular black music was exclusively guitar driven(1950's-1970's). And you won't find any popular genre anywhere near that in 2019.

No, he's right.

You notice those were "older" cats back in the '90s.

It was not cool to be a young cat playing the guitar back in the '90s, which is why virtually nobody famous in Hip-Hop did it.

Guitar was strictly in samples, studio musicians, and guest stars in Hip-Hop.

When Andre 3000 started doing it, cats were like

great thread.

Jimi Hendrix fckd it up simple as that.

Jimi Hendrix is a white god especially to hipsters and eastern europeans, but tell them name 3 songs.

you got Jimi media adoration because it was the english who "made" him, and englands got to claim the best at everything.

When regular brothers finally give his music a spin after the hype they find outside guitar skills, dude could not make music. voice garbage and couldnt write a song. 2 biggest hits a bob dylan cover and voodoo child which is about the guitar riff no vocals.

if brothers could know how dope a great rock song is, im sure they'd be way more but right now its c00nish since the music hype is that unappealling. i think black people will take over rock again, when one or two people step forward and show new dope music with guitar licks and everything.

I thought I was the only one that thought Jimi was garbage

You nikkaz are fukking retarded.

Wind Cries Mary?
Manic Depression?
Castles Made of Sand?
Are You Experienced?
Purple Haze?
Foxy lady?

Then he got with the Band of Gypsies, two other brothers and started doing stuff like "Message To Love" & "Machine Gun"

Show y'all way out of the thread disrespecting one of the greatest musicians who ever lived like that

Black jazz guitarists are out of this world

Jimis idol was Kenny Burrell

And Albert King

Ray Parker Jr. (He wrote this for Chaka Khan)


On and on and on. I am finding out that the real c00n nikkas are the ones that are too stupid to learn anything about the music their folks created.

I was just listening to this

 

[tuckgod]

^ horrible take on jimi

and that dude is right about the digital music and the frequencies it produces ... you can master and distribute your music as a better frequency which most artists dont do
It's been shown to heal and build the cells and dna in your body. Alot of the music now, digital or not... is rendered in a very chaotic frequency that actually slows or retards
body synthesis. Look it up, the info is all out there.

Tell me more please