The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs
&gt; A single songwriter can specialize in literally the snare-drum.<p>I was an amateur level producer in high school. I had hundred of snare-drum samples, not to mention a lot of way to influence the sound of a particular one. Picking a good snare-drum is very important, it can totally change the character of the song.<p>All of modern music producing it&#x27;s like that, it&#x27;s an extremely efficient market, it&#x27;s really really hard to make &quot;the sound of 2019&quot;, and this is why there are such few successful producers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;22&#x2F;arts&#x2F;music&#x2F;diary-of-a-song-the-middle-zedd-maren-morris-grey.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;22&#x2F;arts&#x2F;music&#x2F;diary-of-a-son...</a><p>To put it in software engineer terms, saying that &quot;all successful modern music is computer made, recipe driven, there is no originality&quot; it&#x27;s like saying &quot;all successful modern sites are made exactly the same, you just pick a database, a web frontend, ads to sell, a few programmers, there is no originality&quot;