(September 28, 2021 at 6:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: ...And keep in mind that musicians draw influences from those who went before.
Having a broad-based understanding of more than one musical era, style, instrument is what distinguishes the really good artists from the flavour-of-the-week ones. If you stay in your little sandbox and just play {K-pop, country, folk...} you have a much smaller pool of ideas to draw from. It's like what they say about writers: If you want to write well, you have to read. Similarly, you have to listen to a broad spectrum of music to find your own distinctive voice and sound original rather than repackaged.
