Makin' Music...

Have you ever thought what goes into making music? It is a bunch of different instruments all playing at different times playing different things with different notes and yet most times it comes out sounding great. Now I would like to challange you on this to think about these three settings. First, take any large city orchestra, strings, percussion, brass, woodwinds, and all the ther things I don't want to type, put some music in front of them and let the conductor direct and they sound great. Second, take all those people out but leave the instruments, what does it sound like? Well it sounds like nothing because it is the people making the sounds. Thirdly, take a whole new group of people off the street and go plop them into the same seats the original people were setting in, place the instruments in their hands, and get the same conductor and have him start directing them. Will it sound the same? I think not Sherlock!! It probably sounds more like the slaughter house at the local butcher shop than a ochestra concert. So what happened?
The chairs are the same, the instruments are the same, the conductor is the same, the location is the same, so then how did one setting produce beautiful music, the other setting no music and the third setting a horrific amount of noise. It is the people... the people are what makes the difference. If you have well trained people, a conductor can get up and direct and the results are beautiful. But if you have no people, you can do all the conducting that you want, but you are not going to make any sound. And if you have untrained people, well, yeah...
So if you want to make beautiful music, train your people in the skills that they need, if you want to make no music then run everyone off so you don't have to deal with them but you are going to be the idiot up there conductiung a bunch of chairs, and if you want to make bad music, then just throw an instrument on someone and tell them to play, but don't gripe when they play the wrong notes, the wrong tune and don't take your direction, they don't know any better.