New music artist Brian Beshore, aka Dizzy O’Brian, studied music at the Peabody School of Music in Baltimore. While in music school, he noticed that his professors seemed to disepense what were implied as ‘rules of composition,’ but the musical examples from the really great and famous composers never seemed to follow these ‘rules,’ specifically.
In searching for what could possibly be the guidlines these really great and famous composers used, Brian came to the conclusion that the rule was ‘what they liked;’ They wrote music the way they personally liked to hear it.
He also noticed that most of these personalities from the past were regarded as somewhat radical in one way or another, during their own time even though they were now held up as part and parcel of the establishment. Brian therefore came to the conclusion that the path for new music artists to take was to follow the rule of ‘what they like,’ rather than trying to follow ‘rules’ dredged up by pedagogs from the past.
He discovered a real conundrum. One that extends to this day.
Upon leaving his music school and returning to the west coast, he joined many other new music artists in many groups and recorded many alternative albums but he still found that supposedly new music artists thought that they could achieve success by following ‘the rules of music,’ which invariably led to direct imitation of others.
Even in pop music, record companies had their own ‘rules of music,’ which said that a new music artist should follow their established formulas and that they would look for and even create the same sorts of groups with the same sorts of sounds that they had been successful with before.
Dizzy O’Brian, however, continues to follow the beat of a different drummer and create alternative albums with music ‘the way he likes to hear it.’