oh that article didnt mean that your brain doesnt work anymore after 40. it reaches its fully functionality or is grown up at the age of 30 till 40. let´s say the genetic program is then completed.steevio wrote:there is no such thing.::BLM:: wrote:At what point do you think one is at their musical peak? If there is such a thing..
if you change music styles you can have a peak in each one. i've probably changed styles completely about ten times now, i started as a drummer in an acid rock band when i was 11 and probably hit my peak when i was 21 when i released my first records in that style, then i was a bassist in a punk band in 1977 and probably hit my peak after 2 years...... and so on and so on.
i probably made my most commercially successful music to date as a guitarist in a psychedelic grunge band when i was 38. at the same time i started making warehouse techno in 1991 and was most successful at that around 1996, age 41, then moved onto minimal around 1999.
i'd say ive got many more years before i hit my peak in modular techno as i'm still learning, but after nearly two years i'm ready to release my first album in my new style age 56.
i'd say its bullshit that your brain only develops till age 40, it depends what you mean by develop. you are still making and breaking neural pathways long into your old age, my dad is 86 and he runs a successful business on ebay making and selling rare engine parts, he's totally computer / internet literate and he didnt know what a computer was 10 years ago.
the other thing is what you call a peak in your carreer is just a small bump for other artists who dont change their styles all the time. getting back to that approach would be paul simon now a succesful minimal producer if he started that after his "peak" in pop music? i doubt that.
personally i keep it more like stephen king once said that talent is like a knife. some have small ones and some bigger ones but it matters how good you sharpen it.