CaseyI am not saying it’s bad or I don’t like it. Weaving the melody through like a pedal note thing on the base is deliberate, and it’s cool I agree with that. Music doesn’t have to be complicated to be good, but the OP was comparing this song to Bach/Beethoven/Mozart in terms of musical complexity. That is what I was judging it on.
I am not a big classical music guy but this song really doesn’t go anywhere for as long as it is. Like here, listen to it/watch it stripped down- Kind of the same progression with minor variations over and over again. Just my 2 cents maybe I am an idiot.
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/966129/Strobe---deadmau5--Sheet-Music-
Yeah. The piano player in the vid seems really good but still chokes a few times when things got heavy. I dont have much formal training in music other than being in choir in high school. I really liked singing bach because of how awesome his melodies were. I consider him the best classical musician based on this, even though mozart and beethoven might be more sophisticated, but idk how you can objectively judge sophistication in the end. Someone could always argue that a simple sounding melody sounds sophisticated to them, for example.
i dont really know if its a major leap deadmaus made with strobe with respect to being an achievement of sophistication. All i onow is that it seems like it took a very creative mindset to dream up a timing scenario where notes seem to jump out from nowhere but still find their way home in the grand scheme of the song.
maybe its not a major leap but i really havent heard anything else (in techno at least) that impresses me as much with the dynamics of the track.
edit: upon listening to the actual song one more time just now, i definitely think youre missing the subtleties that make strobe what it is. The timing creativity in stobe is objectively impressive. The piano version you posted has the player choking hard on the complicated parts, even though he had a simplified version right in front of him and the version he posted likely had the fewest chokes of the 50-100 attempts he probably made at playing the song on piano.
also, most importantly, being able to simplify the song into an somewhat faithful playable format doesnt mean the creativity needed to birth the songs timing isnt impressive, because it is impressive.
also the original song has elements that the piano player didnt even attempt to duplicate because he couldnt. If you want to appreciate stobe then just listen to the actual track and pay close attention to whats going on.
just bc u can play a simplified rendition of mozart on a piano doesnt make you mozart the creativity is what matters.
playing strobe on a piano and saying its not complicated is like driving a porsche on the highway and saying the engineering isnt complicated.
**This post was edited on Jun 11th 2020 at 7:31:56am
