You missed blues as a genre. Gotta have me some blues some days...
(And I'm surprised that we haven't had a complaint about a lack of folk yet. Not my cup of tea, but I was expecting it.)
As for what makes something good - competence/excellence on instruments, I guess. Composition plays a large part as well - a good tune played badly is still better than a bad tune played well, IMO.
I'm interested to see that you put "a singer with a really good voice". I'm very into vocals, but I seemd to be thinking more and more these days that vocals are best as part of the soundscape. This probably comes from the last few gigs I've been to, where it was pretty clear that a good vocalist knows (or just subconsiously knows) when and how to use their voice to best effect. I can think of lots of singers who have good voices, but that doesn't mean that they sang well... Or were used well in the arrangement, for that matter.
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Date: 2004-11-19 06:37 am (UTC)(And I'm surprised that we haven't had a complaint about a lack of folk yet. Not my cup of tea, but I was expecting it.)
As for what makes something good - competence/excellence on instruments, I guess. Composition plays a large part as well - a good tune played badly is still better than a bad tune played well, IMO.
I'm interested to see that you put "a singer with a really good voice". I'm very into vocals, but I seemd to be thinking more and more these days that vocals are best as part of the soundscape. This probably comes from the last few gigs I've been to, where it was pretty clear that a good vocalist knows (or just subconsiously knows) when and how to use their voice to best effect. I can think of lots of singers who have good voices, but that doesn't mean that they sang well... Or were used well in the arrangement, for that matter.