Steel Guitar
I was very interested in the steel guitar and the culture and history that comes along with it. The “sacred steel’s” roots come from Hawaii. In addition to this information, I also learned that white country music has taken this and integrated it in. Along with African roots as well.
Since we take different types of music and combine them together is that the same thing as clicking and dragging in a track on Garage Band? In my opinion, taking clips that have deep cultural meanings and throwing them on a random track is unethical. Also, as an individual who played an instrument for four years, I think this devalues the skills of musicians since anyone can just type in the word “drum” and simulate the real thing because I know what it is like to put in the time in order to learn how to play an instrument and read music. Therefore, Garage Band takes away the effort put in by others who actually have a passion for music and play an instrument.