And that recorded music has meant a massive decline in paid live bands. So you can't get paid for gigging. So how are you going to get your 10,000 hours in like the beatles? You don't get resident bands in bars and pubs anymore.
I don't think it's useful to compare music to movies or games. The effort and range of skills required is completely different.
Aha, you think it's EASY don't you! Oh yes, anyone can be Nirvana if they grow their hair long huh?
It's not, grow up. The pure fact there are so many people who wanted to be a rock star and never were is a testament to the difficulty.
Also in the past movies = plays, games = Chess, backgammon, cards, etc. Plays cost money, chess boards cost money. And a poor person would never have had a chance to listen to Bach 300 years ago. All forms of entertainment have been around forever, the format changes with the times, but amazingly people always got paid.
Before recorded music, people just played music for fun, or were mainly employed by very rich people to play music.
If we go back to that, I don't think music as such will suffer. People create music mainly because it's fun, not because they want to be rich.
You certainly do get live bands in good pubs. Find a better pub.
And yes, I think creating music is far far easier than creating a movie or a modern game, where you have to organize music, lighting, casting, voices, graphics, gameplay, camerwork etc etc
The bar/restaurant down the street has a down-stairs lounge area. Five or so nights a week there is free live (acoustic) music down there. Many times the same band will play the same night each week. They have fun doing it, and play for tips (not a cover).
The bar opening up next door to it will have a performance space in the back.
There's a place a quarter mile away that is (coffee shop | beer/wine bar | performance space | thrift store | art gallery).
There's a performance space down the block in the other direction; usually they host plays. Right now a local band has been performing a play + music performance for the past month.
It was sold out last night.
Maybe you don't get the traditional resident bands much anymore. But here in Bushwick, local talent is playing for local residents and having a smashing time doing it. A friend's band is about to go on tour to LA with money they've saved up from doing local gigs.
Bands / musical performers are hearkening back to the concept of a traveling minstrel rather than the superstar performer of the last century. It's never something you did "to get rich" - only the very lucky got that. The best performers have done it because they needed to.
To produce a song you need: a band. A recording engineer. (and possibly a song-writer). That will let you produce something on the scale of "Thriller" or :Like a Rolling Stone" or "Hey Jude".
To produce a game the scale of Halo you need significantly more people. Hundreds.
To produce a game like chess - you need 1 person with a good idea. Lets be honest - the difficult part of creating any boardgame is in the idea. A song (or a video game) has an awful lot to do with the implementation.
To promote each artform, you need similar skills - so I'm ignoring that process.
Aha, you think it's EASY don't you! Oh yes, anyone can be Nirvana if they grow their hair long huh?
Don't be silly. If you honestly think that the same amount of time expenditure that goes into creating a video game goes into creating an album, you're insane. Look at how many albums are released every year compared to albums. Do you think this is because people don't want to make games?
And that recorded music has meant a massive decline in paid live bands. So you can't get paid for gigging. So how are you going to get your 10,000 hours in like the beatles? You don't get resident bands in bars and pubs anymore.
I don't think it's useful to compare music to movies or games. The effort and range of skills required is completely different.
Aha, you think it's EASY don't you! Oh yes, anyone can be Nirvana if they grow their hair long huh?
It's not, grow up. The pure fact there are so many people who wanted to be a rock star and never were is a testament to the difficulty.
Also in the past movies = plays, games = Chess, backgammon, cards, etc. Plays cost money, chess boards cost money. And a poor person would never have had a chance to listen to Bach 300 years ago. All forms of entertainment have been around forever, the format changes with the times, but amazingly people always got paid.
So what is your point exactly?