Originally Posted by CaptainSmegma

To address your flawed points in order, good sir:

Firstly, the blues guys are fucking incredible. You have clearly never played blues at any decent level, or listened to enough of it to realise that there's far more going on than playing up and down a scale. I doubt half the metal guys could pull off licks like someone like SRV does either.

Secondly, ther's nothing WRONG with using tabs or sheet music at all-that's not what i said.. I was referring to players who fail to develop their ear due to relying on these resources too heavily. I've seen many, many players who can play all the notes to a song in time and sound boring and shit. Why? because they have no idea which notes to emphasize, where to put the little slides into notes, curls and ghost notes that separate the man from the boys, and couldn't improvise or jam to save their lives. You are probably in this category, i'm guessing?

So in colclusion, it's interesting that your favorite player would be Hendrix, who's music is rooted in the blues, improvisation, and learning music by ear, and not relying on someone else telling him what the notes are.
I would suggest that you acquire some real knowledge about music, specifically music made on the guitar, before trying to fake expertise and pretending to 'enlighten' us.

good day to you.

Originally Posted by jxc1013

I can play a 12 bar blues progression, and the blues scale, with fluent knowledge of octaves, ect. All it takes is some left-right hand coordination to be the next Clapton.