This way they could produce their own music and not rely on voice alone.
X factor is just a singing contest, they should have a music contest where people can apply their talents with instruments.
no, it would be 100x worse than it is now. Who is to say most of them can’t play a bit of piano or guitar already? Elvis could play guitar, he just chose to be more of a showman. Vocals are kind of a musical instrument, you know … it’s not like everyone on x factor are talentless.
I see what you’re getting at, you maybe think that it would up the bar a bit and filter out most of the awful wannabe’s, but a competition with instruments and vocals or even instruments alone isn’t anywhere as near as viable a tv show because most of the public don’t know much about music really.
generally speaking, people listen to pop and people listen to the vocalist, that’s what they do and if you want a competition with instrumentalists check out local ‘battle of the bands’, just don’t expect it to be televised :p