who's or what type or style of music

[49410enrique]

couldn't really think of a short adequate title for the thread but i thought it'd make an interesting question and prompt for good 'ole introspective self analysis....

what type of or which composer's or what style, or what form (i.e. short character pieces, sonata, movie sound tracks, etc.), music  do you love and wish you played or studied or performed more, but you don't?

why/how come?

[newkidintown]

I used to play pop (Boomtown Rats and Journey were the most recent, to give you an idea), then I decided I hated pop with a burning passion, so I'm finally attempting to move on to rock like I've been trying to this whole time (I'm currently making an arrangement of Smells Like Teen Spirit). I still want to focus more on blues and jazz, which I don't do since I can't find any jazz or blues songs I actually like on piano. Then there's classical, which is a long story... in short, thanks to an awful teacher I had, I have a strong dislike for classical music with the exception of Beethoven, which I can still barely stand. I'm trying to get myself to play it for the sake of theory and technical stuff, but I never do.

[pianoplunker]

couldn't really think of a short adequate title for the thread but i thought it'd make an interesting question and prompt for good 'ole introspective self analysis....

what type of or which composer's or what style, or what form (i.e. short character pieces, sonata, movie sound tracks, etc.), music  do you love and wish you played or studied or performed more, but you don't?

why/how come?

I wish I played more contemporary R&B. Lots of good electric keyboard arrangements. But I dont because I keep ending up in Classic Rock bands ! Not that there is anything wrong with that but hammering on pianos gets old sometimes.

[49410enrique]

Kapustin.
"Jazzical."
i love and am obsessed with his music, the sound! 
but i think i shy from it for, amongst many, reasons i do not yet feel confident enough to attempt them, that is i feel woefully inadequate in technique and most certainly reading ability to really pony up to it. soon though i have been systematically improving not only the general difficulty (technique and musicality) and the volume of total works i take on at a given time, and the goal for the rate at which i work it, and specifically more stuff that has 'jazzical' elements as pre-work so i can realistically give it ago next year (i have stronlgy considered and twice pushed back the idea for 12 -18 months)....

but it is coming. i will buy a kapustin score here as soon as i sell something i have going (the works are not cheap! but oooh so worth the effort, super hard to buy in the US vs abroad like in Russia or the UK even).

[stiefel]

Then there's classical, which is a long story... in short, thanks to an awful teacher I had, I have a strong dislike for classical music with the exception of Beethoven, which I can still barely stand. I'm trying to get myself to play it for the sake of theory and technical stuff, but I never do.

No offense, but how is it fair to blame a hatred of all classical music on one individual person?  Bad teacher or not.

[ted]

what type of or which composer's or what style, or what form (i.e. short character pieces, sonata, movie sound tracks, etc.), music  do you love and wish you played or studied or performed more, but you don't?

why/how come?

I wish I had studied and played all of it it far less, and had spent much more time on my own music, particularly improvisation. I wish I had ignored more of what musicians and pianists told me to do in my youth. Must do this, must play that, ought to like the other. What years of time I wasted. All nonsense. All that I needed was to find the sounds I enjoy and play them. It took me until late middle age to realise this simple truth.

But .... I wish I had time to learn to play the guzheng !