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.
I almost chuckled.
"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 never said they weren't. I believe I said that they were not the best guitar players. 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.
I am in no way saying that Clapton isnt a musician, because he's a legend.
"You are probably in this category, i'm guessing?"
You are sadly mistaken, sir.
I bet you listen to your favorite radio songs, pick out the open three five power chord progression, and call yourself a musician.
Chances are, given your insinuated maturity pertaining to music, you couldn't read a sheet to save your life.
That's all Ive got to say about the matter. It takes a toll on me, arguing with ignorant musicians.
Thanks.
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.
you have to be a troll - you just HAVE to be. I'm praying to god that you are a troll and not actually trying to be serious.
Oh and Clapton isn't really that great at all, by the way.
Ted nugent is a pretty good under-rated guitarist, but eddie van halen is towards the top of the list in my opinion.
Worst is pretty hard to choose from, because it could be any one >.>
Also, commenting on the blues, the blues STARTED every FORM AND STYLE of rock and roll today, so you can't say playing the blues is easy. blues lead is amazing, and try coming up with something better and enlighten me oh great one.
Worst is pretty hard to choose from, because it could be any one >.>
Also, commenting on the blues, the blues STARTED every FORM AND STYLE of rock and roll today, so you can't say playing the blues is easy. blues lead is amazing, and try coming up with something better and enlighten me oh great one.
Last edited by Megadoomer; Jan 27, 2010 at 03:53 AM.
I don't know much about guitars, but song-writing and performance-wise, I'd have to say Eddie Van Halen or Alex Lifeson. As for worst, ehh, most famous guitarists are famous for a reason, hard to pick from the ocean of mediocre artists.
