@Cerussite: Notice I said "sensitive". Nor does that contradict my point. Even though Electric guitar isn't considered Classical, there are tons of loud and intense works, as well as sensitive works.
@Cerussite: Many Rock musicians nowadays (and a few decades ago) are mainly playing music based on Pentatonic and Octonic scales. Metal musicians (especially guitar-centered Metal) generally avoid this style, and use more scales that I don't see too much in Rock music. Such as the chromatic scale. Of course they bare similarities, but that doesn't mean Metal is a "sub-genre" of Rock. Classical music bares tons of similarities to Baroque Music, yet I have never heard people refer to Classical music as a "subgenre" to Baroque.
@blooddemon666: I will admit there is some Metal which I could probably acquire a taste to. Maybe a select few songs by Buckethead.
@Cerussite: I say what I say because I personally believe if there were a musician who mainly played very sensitive material, with clean guitar sound, no matter how similar his technique is to a Metal musician, he wouldn't be considered Metal.
It's a funny take on that. I actually would prefer to listen to his version than a Death Metal version. Usually I can find something I like in every genre I've heard of (everything from mainstream Rock to 19th century Polka), with the exception being hard Metal. Metal is a genre that, unlike genres such as Jazz or Impressionism (defined by improvisation or atmosphere), is defined by dynamic, rather than other elements of composition, such as melody, rhythm or depiction of atmosphere. This dynamic being very loud, intense, and quite frankly, constant. Compositions with a constant dynamic can get boring quickly, but a whole genre? That idea has always seemed absurd to me.
True, he isn't notably experienced. And he doesn't go into heavy details during his speeches, however he has clearly explained his ideas, opinions, beliefs etc.
YES! And I hate how people (looking at the thread title) make it seem like it's such an absurd thing to believe in both. I consider them nearly completely irrelevant. I'm no creationist, but I am a Christian. I'm no scientist and I refuse to deny evolution, for I have not studied nearly enough about it to form an opinion on it. Science and Religion are two completely different subjects. Asking your question is like asking "Does anybody believe in Psychology AND Music theory?"
If you spend a day alone, you will most likely think your actions in whatever language you feel most comfortable speaking. No, I don't think you would forget it.
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