My musical heros have to be:
Grant Kirkhope - composer
Mr Fogerty - my music teacher leaving during the summer. :'(
Danny Elfman, for sure.
Bach.
Is this is even a question?
Junichi Masuda. Koji Kondo and Toru Minegishi are real high on the list too though.
Joe LoCascio.
Christopher Tin.
Jascha Heifetz
Everyone on this site who arranges.
Quote from: blueflower999 on June 07, 2013, 07:40:37 PMEveryone on this site who arranges.
This is so nice
Also, left out a few people. I'm inclined to also list Tomohito Nishiura, just because his music really inspires me.
Quote from: blueflower999 on June 07, 2013, 07:40:37 PMEveryone on this site who arranges.
:)
You should learn to arrange, then you can be your own musical hero. 8)
There are those who inspire me as a Musician.
Those who inspire me as a Composer.
Those who inspire me as a Pianist.
Isaac Brock. His beautiful melodies depicting barren wastelands and creating of extremely powerful emotions with extremely simple instrumentation, as well as his poetry which is awe-inspiring itself. He is everything I inspire to be.
I guess I can't go without saying Bruce Springsteen. I've been a fan for such a long time although there has been times when I have only listened vgm and stuff. His songs are generally very simple but that's the magic of rock 'n' roll gods, they take those 4 chords and make something amazing with them.
Nobuo Uematsu takes the second place.
Les Claypool
Darrin Pfeiffer
Jimmy Chamberlin
Billy Corgan
These four people have so much talent spilling out of their body that I think the amount of envy I have toward them would cause a singularity if I let it.
FUCKING LES CLAYPOOl. XD
Quote from: FireArrow on June 07, 2013, 02:49:58 PMBach.
Is this is even a question?
Yes, which Bach? Sure, J.S. Bach is more famous but for example his sons played an important role in the history of music. W.A. Mozart once said something like: "Bach is the father, we are the sons." and in fact he was referring to C.P.E. Bach (the most famous of J.S. Bach's sons). J.C. Bach (another of Bach's sons) was an inspiration for W.A. Mozart's concerto style. W.A. Mozart discovered J.S. Bach later in life.
As for the thread topic, depends how musical hero is defined. In my case I've been wanting to compose and have in fact recently started composing some (nothing finished yet) and the music of alot of composers is inspiring. You could say I have lots of musical heroes but to mention a few: J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, G.F. Handel, G.P. Telemann, W.A. Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Frederick Chopin, Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein, Anton Bruckner, Erik Satie, Dmitri Shostakovich, John Barry, Tomohito Nishiura, Michael Giacchino... Basically I try to listen to lots of classical, film, TV and video game music.
Yoko Kanno!!
I know there exists better, but I haven't heard of them^.^
Tempo is my musical hero.
Quote from: Ricky on June 09, 2013, 02:57:26 AMStuff
J.S. Bach - I really love his fugal works.
I forgot to add Toshiro Masuda.
I also forgot, Joe Hisashi is an awesome composer and a great pianist. :3
Quote from: K-NiGhT on June 07, 2013, 06:36:09 PMJascha Heifetz
Yes~
I would say Koji Kondo and my composition teacher have inspired me to composer lots of great music.
For violin...Sarah Chang :P and Jascha Heifetz :P
For Piano...my mum :)
and I would say Giora Schmidt playing my favourite concerto (Barber Concerto) really helps me aim for the best :P
Danny Elfman and Joe Hisaishi are my musical heroes.
haha Joe Hisaishi. Just a genius
John Williams, Koji Kondo and My Dad 8)