Who said anything about being a DJ? Literally took me 4 weeks of cramming before I played my first club set - very easy to learn, hard to master. I picked up guitar in a little under 3 years and was playing 3 shows a week professionally via several groups as well as doing session work. Also easy to learn, little harder to master, but certainly not some impossible task.
Producing a fully fledged track from scratch however - composing every element of the piece, designing synth patches, creating unique drums, arranging everything, mixing, mastering it to any remotely professional sounding standard... That all takes FAR longer than learning a traditional instrument. Yeah, you can knock up some run of the mill trash in no time by playing lego with some sample packs, but that's not what we're talking about here.
To argue that composing something on a computer makes you not a musician is completely asinine. Mushing some metal strings onto some wood is nowhere near as complex as lovingly crafting each element of a full track in a DAW.
It takes like 2 years to become a DJ and like 10 to become a decent guitar player.
Who said anything about being a DJ? Literally took me 4 weeks of cramming before I played my first club set - very easy to learn, hard to master. I picked up guitar in a little under 3 years and was playing 3 shows a week professionally via several groups as well as doing session work. Also easy to learn, little harder to master, but certainly not some impossible task.
Producing a fully fledged track from scratch however - composing every element of the piece, designing synth patches, creating unique drums, arranging everything, mixing, mastering it to any remotely professional sounding standard... That all takes FAR longer than learning a traditional instrument. Yeah, you can knock up some run of the mill trash in no time by playing lego with some sample packs, but that's not what we're talking about here.
To argue that composing something on a computer makes you not a musician is completely asinine. Mushing some metal strings onto some wood is nowhere near as complex as lovingly crafting each element of a full track in a DAW.
Like John Lennon. Kek.