So I was watching
I don't teach guitar (or any instruments), I don't play guitar, I don't even have that great a grasp of music theory, and while I don't much envisage that changing (I do like music theory videos though which is presumably why ze algorithm shoved that in front of my eyeballs) it saw me ponder what might go.
Short version guy in the video has been teaching guitar for a few decades now. Enough to be around for the earlier days of CDs, through the rise of downloadable music and burnable CDs, to the rise of mp3 players, to apparently the kids being about burning money on bandwidth and subscription streaming services today (I would watch the video as it is quite enlightening from just a social trends perspective) and with it the trends in consumption of it and how even the self selected group of people wanting to learn an instrument approach listening to things. I would also counterpoint it with music topics in this section -- ever so often we have variations on the theme of desert island, favourite, least favourite... and most of those are song or artist level rather than album.
Now albums were not always the dominant form of music, even after the advent of the LP record, however if the average classical symphony, opera, musical performance and whatnot almost regardless of where you were was about album length and albums tended to be what bands were referred to with and known for/banked on by record companies for then yeah (though I will certainly note singles during that time being of considerable importance, even if they were often made into compilations and greatest hits type deals).
To that end do you listen to albums or are you more about singles, or indeed is it just background noise from a streaming service these days?
I don't teach guitar (or any instruments), I don't play guitar, I don't even have that great a grasp of music theory, and while I don't much envisage that changing (I do like music theory videos though which is presumably why ze algorithm shoved that in front of my eyeballs) it saw me ponder what might go.
Short version guy in the video has been teaching guitar for a few decades now. Enough to be around for the earlier days of CDs, through the rise of downloadable music and burnable CDs, to the rise of mp3 players, to apparently the kids being about burning money on bandwidth and subscription streaming services today (I would watch the video as it is quite enlightening from just a social trends perspective) and with it the trends in consumption of it and how even the self selected group of people wanting to learn an instrument approach listening to things. I would also counterpoint it with music topics in this section -- ever so often we have variations on the theme of desert island, favourite, least favourite... and most of those are song or artist level rather than album.
Now albums were not always the dominant form of music, even after the advent of the LP record, however if the average classical symphony, opera, musical performance and whatnot almost regardless of where you were was about album length and albums tended to be what bands were referred to with and known for/banked on by record companies for then yeah (though I will certainly note singles during that time being of considerable importance, even if they were often made into compilations and greatest hits type deals).
To that end do you listen to albums or are you more about singles, or indeed is it just background noise from a streaming service these days?