Why is there no Canadian music tradition?

[Boris Godunov]

Don't mind Boris. He's trying to troll. He's new to this.

I admit, it's started an argument far more heated than I had dared hope.

[Drake Tungsten]

I admit, it's started an argument far more heated than I had dared hope.

Everything would've been fine if some Scots-Irish honky hadn't tried to take the blues from black folk.

[KrazyHorse]

Drake, I'm going to forgive you because you obviously have no formal musical training

And you do?

12 years of classical violin training, 8 years of them in various orchestras, 2 as second violinist.

You don't even have the basic history of the blues down. The Scots-Irish settled most heavily in Appalachia, while the most influential early heartland of the blues was in the Mississippi Delta. You're clearly wrong, you massive ****.

Thanks, you idiot. I know where the Delta is, and I know where Appalachia is. I also know that the scots-irish didn't ****ing all stay in the mountains.



Are you seriously denying their influence further inland? Specifically in the Delta?

[Drake Tungsten]

Jessica Keyes, MA (Ethnomusicology)

http://www.folkways.si.edu/explore_folkways/country_blues.aspx

[Asher]

I admit, it's started an argument far more heated than I had dared hope.

Have you heard any Tragically Hip songs? They're probably the most distinctly Canadian band today.

[Boris Godunov]

12 years of classical violin training, 8 years of them in various orchestras, 2 as second violinist.

Tsk.

[Drake Tungsten]

12 years of classical violin training, 8 years of them in various orchestras, 2 as second violinist.

8 years of classical piano, *****.

[Asher]

**** you *****es. 6 years of piano training from my neighbour. And 8 years of self-taught guitar.

BOOYAH.

[KrazyHorse]

Tsk.

The concertmaster was really ****ing good.

[KrazyHorse]

12 years of classical violin training, 8 years of them in various orchestras, 2 as second violinist.

8 years of classical piano, *****.

Piano is an instrument for the tone-deaf. Plunk plunk plunk.

[Asher]

I can play Greensleeves on the Piano like nobody's business!

[Boris Godunov]

Have you heard any Tragically Hip songs?

I would think the answer to that would be obvious.

[Drake Tungsten]

I don't even know why I'm arguing with KH. The entirety of the evidence for his point of view is a contrary opinion published in a British newspaper article and his own assertion that he can hear the tonal similarities...

[Asher]

I would think the answer to that would be obvious.

That's why I embedded them. Even a musicologist could figure out how to play them.

[Boris Godunov]

The concertmaster was really ****ing good.

No excuses, I have high expectations for you.