Yes that's correct. What I meant was that there is no less than infinite variants in human playing that cannot be measured (or we'd take infinite time to do it).
For instance, a quarter note is 1 beat, but how long does it last? if you press piano pedal it can spread several beats, and together with next notes it may form a chord. In guitar arpeggios this happens quite often, if not always...
even in a melody, the duration of notes depends on the instrument and on the interpretation. If we want legato the note shall last the whole beat, or even a little longer into next note (specially for piano players).
The strength applied, the direction strings are picked, the left hand and left arm movement,... all these are affected by a trained instrumentist humour and techique, and surelly affect the way a music sounds. If you reduce this to a one-dimension machinery, it'll sound like... a machine.
I don't consider that even music.
If you knew something about music, you should know that a whole note does not last the same as two half notes, but a bit less. The moment of the attack is what defines the name of the note. For instance, a whole note may be very short, if it has a dot under it (piano)
Anyway, music played by machines will always sound like machines, because (among other things) machines don't have: feed-back (the ability to listen to what they play and react to it). A guitarist is always surprised and emotionally afected by the sound of what he plays, and that changes his playing and that is what makes the music express something, and that is what ultimately makes us enjoy listening to music. Otherwise I wouldn't call it music (of course there is a lot of this non-expressive sheet around, just listen to radios and TVs, but I don't call it music...)
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Yes that's correct. What I meant was that there is no less than infinite variants in human playing that cannot be measured (or we'd take infinite time to do it). For instance, a quarter note is 1 beat, but how long does it last? if you press piano pedal it can spread several beats, and together with next notes it may form a chord. In guitar arpeggios this happens quite often, if not always... even in a melody, the duration of notes depends on the instrument and on the interpretation. If we want legato the note shall last the whole beat, or even a little longer into next note (specially for piano players). The strength applied, the direction strings are picked, the left hand and left arm movement, ... all these are affected by a trained instrumentist humour and techique, and surelly affect the way a music sounds. If you reduce this to a one-dimension machinery, it'll sound like... a machine.
I don't consider that even music.
If you knew something about music, you should know that a whole note does not last the same as two half notes, but a bit less. The moment of the attack is what defines the name of the note. For instance, a whole note may be very short, if it has a dot under it (piano)
Anyway, music played by machines will always sound like machines, because (among other things) machines don't have: feed-back (the ability to listen to what they play and react to it).
A guitarist is always surprised and emotionally afected by the sound of what he plays, and that changes his playing and that is what makes the music express something, and that is what ultimately makes us enjoy listening to music. Otherwise I wouldn't call it music (of course there is a lot of this non-expressive sheet around, just listen to radios and TVs, but I don't call it music...)