• TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
    551·
    11 days ago

    I’m a drums teacher and I’m this close to breaking my sticks with my bare teeth if any of my students request learning another shitty Swift song ever again. Or maybe I’ll smash the window in by throwing my kit at it. Or myself. Or my students…

    • vateso5074@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      11 days ago

      I’ve definitely been there. I think it’s like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):

      At least they want to read something.

      Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they’re currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they’ll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.

      Take the “lead a horse to water” idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        16·
        11 days ago

        Oh, no worries. I teach them 50/50 what they want to learn and the other half is what I think it’s good for them to learn. That includes Blues, Jazz, Grunge, Funk, Soul, and so, so many more genres. I just hate dull pop music with a passion. :D

    • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      10 days ago

      Even as a non-pop music hater I can’t imagine going to a drumming class and wanting to play that all the time, it’s just not a drum centric genre. Very few pop songs have prominent or interesting percussion.

      I would imagine a drum class would be full of metal, jazz, punk, funk, etc. fans.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        Most of my students are kids / teenagers and especially group classes can be somewhat annoying every now and then. But at the same time it’s very rewarding. Sure, sometimes I’m a bit underwhelmed by their taste in music, but hey, I’ve been a dumbass kid as well back in the day. I love the lessons when I’m not taking any requests, just giving a big lecture about different music genres and then getting into the drumming zone. I teach one advanced class every 2nd week (beginners class is every week) and I love seeing my students light up when it comes to proper challenging stuff. One is a fun nu metal fan who once asked me if I knew how to play “Word up”. You mean the Korn version or the actual original? Lol, his mind was blown away after hearing the original for the first time, and that was the original song plus me on the drums playing along to it. :D I might’ve had shitty parents, but oh dear, both of them had good taste in music and thus I know boatloads of cool stuff all the way down from the mid 50s up until the early 90s.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Lol, I had to look it up online. There’s some very nice Breakcore elements in that music. To quote a friend of mine (who is crazy enough to actually play that sort of stuff live on an oldschool kit every now and then): “Sure, I can play Breakcore live - for about 20 minutes and then I’ve got to stop because otherwise it would give me a major league heart attack!” :D

    • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Isn’t starting out with easy songs good? There’s a reason why every guitarist knows to play Wonderwall. I think it’s just a consequence of teaching that you don’t do complex stuff. The students that are able to do complex stuff probably teach themselves at that point.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        It actually is just the way you described it. But one of my students is technically far beyond most others her age - and still demands playing shitty pop music. Sometimes I really want to make her angry (she’s heavy on the spectrum), just so she can unleash her full potential. Have fun with other genres. Like, idk, play a song of my late friend’s band Static-X. :D I know she could do it, but she prefers not to. I am not shoving or pushing her. She does what she feels fine with. So, I guess more Swift, more Lady Gaga, more Billie Eilish… ;D

  • casmael@mander.xyzEnglish
    42·
    10 days ago

    The four genres I can see based on the pictures and nothing else:

    • radio pop
    • retrocore
    • second wave black metal
    • celine dion
    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      10 days ago

      I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever heard a Taylor Swift song in my life. But, let me take a guess.

      1. Pop. I’m pretty sure she’s a pop singer. I get the impression her fans are mostly young girls, so that’s probably her core demographic.
      2. “Modern Country”, a.k.a. “country-pop”. She just seems like the type who would do a pop song but add a bit of twang, a bit of acoustic guitar, and voila, she’s mastered “country”.
      3. Hip-hop. I wouldn’t be surprised if she released some so-called “hip hop”. I really doubt she’s be the one rapping, but someone that famous can probably just do a collaboration with a rapper, and sing while they rap. Just adjust the beats a bit, throw in a turntable (or a turntable-type sample), and you’ve mastered hip-hop. Unless… hmm… maybe her fan base is so white that she’s afraid of offending them even with extremely mild hip-hop. In that case, category 3 could be “Rock”, i.e. pop but with a bit more of an edge.
      4. Hmm, this is a harder one. There are so many other genres of music, which one would be “the only other remaining genre” according to a fan? Probably not something too foreign, so not K-Pop or Latin. Probably nothing too old because her fans are so young, so no Jazz, Blues or Classical. It probably comes down to “Rock” or “Dance”. I’m gonna go with Dance. It’s pretty easy to take a female vocalist and emphasize the rhythm, focus on electronic instruments, etc.

      Far from actually mastering “all 4 genres of music”, my guess is that almost everything she plays is in 4/4, with maybe an occasional 3/4, and that it’s almost always in a major key. How did I do?

      • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I don’t know much about genres, but I do know she started as a country artist and pivoted to pop later.

  • SomGye@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    11 days ago

    Now we just need:

    • Djent
    • Nightcore
    • Bardcore
    • Whatever genre Flash animation used in the early 2000s
  • foggianism@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    10 days ago

    I wanna hear her songs in the genres of:

    Serbian Turbo Folk

    Euro Dance

    Doo-Wop

    Bebop

    Ex-Yu Rock

    Bosnian Sevdalinka

    Techno

    Dance/House

    New Jack Swing

  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 days ago

    Give away her wealth in an effort to curb the devastation of climate change.

    Edit: imagine how much she could lobby in Congress. She could change legislation for the next decade. But she doesn’t. No billionaire does.