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Ian///Shakespace wrote: > A DJ's abilities as a DJ are just as inate as a guitarist's abilities as >a > guitarist... you're born with a certain amount of talent that you hone > through practice. ... I really don't see a difference between a >guitarist practicing his > craft and a DJ practicing his. ... a DJ is grafting, adding elements and > removing, much the same way as a guitarists picking or strumming may add >or > take away notes from a riff. Creativity can be brought to almost any human endeaver, but that doesn't make two activities equal in a more important sense. A jock can pick the sample, playback rate, & what context he drops the sample into. But a guitarist can do equivalent things AND choose tone, phrasing, & attack; he can bend notes, add vibrato, & play harmonics. The number of options available for expression affects the power and expressiveness of the instrument or method. A 7 note thumb piano is not as capable of expressing human emotion as a tenor saxophone. Another way to say this is that if you don't play guitar but want to play like Alan Holdsworth, then you had better get started; it'll be a 10 or 20 year journey if it's even attainable for you. However, becoming a great DJ might take a few months to a year and a half; again, if you have it in you. So... is there a difference in the activities because one is more difficult. Certainly. If you master a more powerful, expressive medium you can create more emotional, evocative music. Another angle is that the DJ chooses a piece of music (sound), *that someone else created*, to add to his mix. The guitarist makes the same choice but uses his own pallet, his own voice. On another, somewhat related, note I have always thought that some instruments are more expressive than others, and wondered why. Why are there more sax, guitar, trumpet or violin solos than other instruments? The best answer I've come up with so far seems to be the point I was making above about the options. The number of ways an instruments can shape a note is directly related to it's expressive power. There is a reason sax is more popular than French horn; or guitar more popular than banjo. I believe great players can touch us more deeply with these instruments. Look out... incoming... Motley