1. Playing cover you don't create anything.
2. We don't have a concept of covers in other performance acts: Comedies, movies, or paintings.
Seriously, I can't imagine that I'm attending a stand-up show and some comedian telling me borrowed material.
3. It's ok to learn the song to pick some elements from it for your own vocabulary. But don't call it "Ah, "Message in the bottle", that's my band's material.
4. When your band plays other musicians'/bands' songs it's like you are speaking using only the phrases from Duolingo.
5. Creating your own songs is scary indeed, so more and more bands decide to play something that is already proven and validated by the crowd.
6. Taking into account YouTube channels, the ones with the folks playing covers have way more subscribers than the channels where musicians create their own content, and give music analysis, whatsoever. That's odd and pitty.
7. Getting back to #2, seriously, have you ever imagined reading a book written by James, but re-written by me?
8. Many of these musicians are way better than me and I think they are wasting their talent playing covers.
9. It's a wrong approach to the 10,000 hours rule 🙂
10. I think it's like playing a drum machine: you understand the rhythm patterns and sounds but at the end of the day it's not you who is playing the instrument.
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