THE MUSIC SNOBS

If you have a love for Black American Music and it’s many forms, you should be listening to this. Great mix of knowledge, humor, and philosophy about multiple eras of music, with clever ways of approaching it all. Much love.

It’s the Best/most knowledgeable music podcast.I wish they let us know if they’re going to leave for a year and a half.Keep the episodes coming guys and maybe eventually make a patreon so we could support it.I would pay for this show.

J Dilla, as the Music Snobs said, has had an influence on how we perceive timing in music. In terms of his influence (admittedly, I don’t have hip hop music knowledge, really) I feel that many people miss what Dilla’s influence should have been in that people stopped training with metronomes. Dilla always had music that had a different concept of feel or rhythm or groove… but! Somebody (some instrument, some sample, some entity or somebody) has to be playing ‘in time’. People try to be Dilla before they can play in time with a metronome. I am only now learning to be able to play with a metronome. So I can’t call anybody out. But the capacity to lock in a groove is essential, and I wonder if people try to sound like Dilla doing altered time before they know how to play a quarter note. Or a half note. Or a dotted eighth. I say all of that to say— he was influential, maybe the most influential— giving people a new concept of rhythm that I do hear in other genres. But sort of like people try to become Jordan before they have fundamentals down, I wonder if modern musicians (myself included… before I started playing with a metronome) have tried to skip steps because they followed a genius before they learned simple (not to say easy) things.

Music Snobs Show is without a doubt one of my favorite all music, mainly Black, music program. Only wish this program comes on weekly. As an avid music lover, their episode is worth waiting for.