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Dec 31, 2014 - Sir Paul McCartney calls popular music courses focussing on TheBeatles. ... But you can't tell them how to become a Bob Dylan or a John  ...

Sir Paul McCartney has called popular music courses focusing on The Beatles "ridiculous".

"We never studied anything, we just loved our popular music," he said. "I think for us, we'd have felt it would have ruined it to study it."

The musician made the comments while taking part in a Q&A on his website.

However, Sir Paul conceded that classes incorporating The Beatles' music were "kind of a cool idea" and "very flattering".

"To be told - as I was years ago now - that The Beatles were in my kid's history books? That was like 'What?! Unbelievable, man!" he said.

The 72-year-old added that great musicians could not be created in the classroom.

"It may be that you use [pop music courses] to teach other people about the history, that's all valuable," he said.

"But to think that you can go to a college and come out like Bob Dylan? Someone like Bob Dylan, you can't make."

Image captionSir Paul said it was 'unbelievable; The Beatles featured in history books

Sir Paul co-founded the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (Lipa) in 1996. Based in the musician's old school, the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, it offers degree courses in music, alongside drama and dance.

"It was an early decision when we were thinking of our policies for Lipa, we said: 'We want to train people to be all-rounders,'" he said.

"Give them as much info as we can. But you can't tell them how to become a Bob Dylan or a John Lennon because, you know, nobody knows how that happens."

Answering another question on the current state of the music industry, the star said he did not think modern technology resulted in better records.

"We would record four tracks in a day - which is unheard of now - and those four tracks still sell more than most contemporary records. So obviously the system was pretty good. It was very simple, you had to just be very disciplined... we knew we had to play great," he said.

"Whereas now you know you go: 'We'll do another take or we'll get it in the mix, we'll just take that bum note out, we'll stick it on Pro-Tools, we'll fix it.' But it gives you, I think, too many options.

"It's great, it's very luxurious, but I don't think it helps the process."

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13 February 2015 Last updated at 11:34 GMT

The process of making music was "easier" in the past Sir Paul McCartney has told BBC Click's Spencer Kelly.

Big Beatles' hits like Michelle and Yesterday could be recorded, mixed, taped and done in one day, he said.

But new ways of working meant that a song no longer needed to be written before a musician went into a recording studio to put a track together.

Sir Paul said he advised young musicians to write their songs first: "It sounds obvious but people don't do that so much these days."

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Sir Paul McCartney: I feel sorry for young artists - BBC News

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Sir Paul McCartney: I feel sorry for young artists

10 December 2014 Last updated at 09:18 GMT

Sir Paul McCartney has spoken about how he got involved in creating a song for the video game Destiny, a process he likened to making a huge film score.

The science fiction first-person shooter sold over $325m (£207m) worldwide in its first five days of release earlier this year.

But despite there being a host of new ways to get music out there, the former Beatle warned that in the modern era it is harder for young artists to make money from their music due to piracy and streaming.

保羅麥卡尼：「偉大的音樂人是無法在課程裡產生的」

The Beatles前成員保羅麥卡尼（Paul McCartney）對學校開設研究The Beatles的音樂課程表達看法，他認為「荒謬但又受寵若驚」。

「成員們沒有學過任何東西，我們單純只是很愛我們的音樂」，McCartney說到。

但同時，McCartney也表示將The Beatles成為流行音樂課程的一部分是「很酷的想法」，他感到「受寵若驚」，學校用流行音樂課程教授學生流行音樂的歷史，這點很有價值。他並指出，如果人們認為接受相關教育課程，畢業後就能成為像巴布狄倫（Bob Dylan）一樣偉大的歌手，此事絕無可能。

McCartney補充說，「偉大的音樂人是無法在課程裡產生的。」

1996年，McCartney共同創立利物浦表演藝術學院（the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts），提供音樂、戲劇以及舞蹈等課程，他希望能培養全面性人才，因此盡可能地教授學生所有的知識。而他也認為，學校是無法產生像巴布狄倫或是約翰藍儂（John Lennon）這樣的音樂天才。

談及使用現代技術錄製唱片，McCartney認為不一定會產生更好的音樂。他說，「The Beatles一天錄製4首歌，這在今天是無法想像的，然而，這些歌曲比大多數現代製作的歌曲銷量都高，很明顯當時的制度是有效的。那時的技術也很簡單，成員們必須對自己非常嚴格，我們知道必須要唱得好。」

McCartney說，現在進錄音室錄製音樂是重複一遍又一遍，再用各式方法進行混音工程，選擇太多，太奢侈了，但對創作未必有實質幫助。

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