General Music Chat

Mr Haley

I'm on track with cutting back on notes. Been listening to some Jeff Beck and how he sucks the max out of each note.

Talbot

Mr Haley

I'm on track with cutting back on notes. Been listening to some Jeff Beck and how he sucks the max out of each note.

Talbot

Mike I wasn't referencing you! I meant Shh, you know who!

A 1000 yars of music theory wrong
cause Mr Hankie can't understand chord
theory.

Pick your spots to play

I get attacked by the toughest internet foes,
looking to make a name for themselves. I'm
scared,

Itryed to grasp the point, but you'd rather attack
the likes of me, then explain yourself in English.
Playing too many notes?
Tell that to Jimmy Page On "Since I've Been Loving YOU"
AL Collins on "Freebird
Zappa, on "Pojama People"
The Allman Bros. on "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"


Mr Hankie all notes are interealted and breath differently
with different notes.

Whats that you say Lynard eh? I can't hear you. Is there a flea or mosquito buzzing around here somewhere? Oh no its that gnat LD!

Turn up your hearing aid. lol

Your not funny just funny looking,
but if you wanta lesson in one liners
keep phukking with me mouth.

Whats that you say LD violin the gnat I can't hear you! Your on ignore you DUMB@SS!

ALL THE IGNORE BUTTON DOES IS MAKE IT HARDER TO READ
THE POST YOU WANT TO READ, MR EINSTEIN.

That's the voice of experience talking.

Don't let me get under your skin, remeber every other note,
like your hero said. My heroes have always been cowboys,
not dried up old black guitar players.

I can attest that sometimes more is better.

Ive shared in another thread where I have been going thru all sorts of video tapes of my band and there are times where I have approached solos like Sean does in his videos, I mean what the hell am I thinking, how many notes can I play or what? Or damn my hands are fast?

But then I find a song where I really milked each note for all its worth and those solos stand out in my mind way more than the shredder type, I mean there is nothing wrong with a burst or two, but 32 bars of shredd gets on my nerves and I lose interest for some reason, and Im a fughen guitar player.

Take a player like Randy Rhoads and the Crazy Train solo, sure Randy shreds as well as anyone, but in that solo he burst then he relaxes, gives some space in there or breathing room, then burst again, it comes across as tasteful, instead of just showing off.

Eddie Van Halen, the same thing, even on Eruption, there are pauses and breaks that draw you in more, thats why its one of those iconic guitar solos, if he had just played ever note as fast as he could I dont think that solo would have stood the test of time that it has.

So just because a old blues player said what he said doesnt mean its not relevant to other genres. Im as guilty as anyone on this site of overplaying at times.

I can attest that sometimes more is better.

Ive shared in another thread where I have been going thru all sorts of video tapes of my band and there are times where I have approached solos like Sean does in his videos, I mean what the hell am I thinking, how many notes can I play or what? Or damn my hands are fast?

But then I find a song where I really milked each note for all its worth and those solos stand out in my mind way more than the shredder type, I mean there is nothing wrong with a burst or two, but 32 bars of shredd gets on my nerves and I lose interest for some reason, and Im a fughen guitar player.

Take a player like Randy Rhoads and the Crazy Train solo, sure Randy shreds as well as anyone, but in that solo he burst then he relaxes, gives some space in there or breathing room, then burst again, it comes across as tasteful, instead of just showing off.

Eddie Van Halen, the same thing, even on Eruption, there are pauses and breaks that draw you in more, thats why its one of those iconic guitar solos, if he had just played ever note as fast as he could I dont think that solo would have stood the test of time that it has.

So just because a old blues player said what he said doesnt mean its not relevant to other genres. Im as guilty as anyone on this site of overplaying at times.

I could not have said it better! Thats all I was trying to say! Thanks John! Maybe Mr. Peabrain the gnat will get it! Its an ego thing with him! After all he is the Rasta Superman and he can't be beat!

I can't be beat............

That must be why all the players try to play fast?
The blues scale is built on apassing tone that sounds
great when it is played fast.

Like I said leave that blues note out, and you'll get
a timeless sound.

Lynard you may be right

I learn something new every day!

If you leave the blues note out(the flattened 5th),
your playing a minor scale that has been around in
modern music(the last 500 years). Move that scale
to it's relative minor (eg C to Am) than that scale
turns inot a major scale (due to note Placement),
and you'll here all the country players using that
scale.

I use the Aeolian minor scale ( a 7 note scale vs a 5)
in songs like don't fear the reaper, cry for the badman,
it's a sad sounding scale, and can be played out of 6th
and 5th string roots.

That scale shifting from tonic to relative minor, moves
all the modes also, so you can play all over the neck.

Lynard I just try to use every fret on the neck

Ive forgotten most of my theory, try not to think in those terms anymore for some reason.

Guess I should brush up

I do get Guitar Player Mag and ussually run thru all the little tip sections expecially the genres Im not that familiar with. Good Stuff and Great Mag, this month they have a guy in there that plays an 8 string guitar.

You know I don't consider it thinking in theory
terms, it's just music.

You know the 7 notes of the major scale or the 12
notes of the chromatic scale have been around a long,
long time, I just enjoy exploring all the relationships these
notes have made, and then add some rhythm, what fun.
On the guitar you can play across the neck 6 string scales,
up and down the neck in 1 or even 2 string scales, it's what
makes it always fresh and exciting.

8 strings huh I wonder how he tunes it, most of the 7
string players I've played with tune the big string to B, that way you have B, E on the bottom and B, E on the top.

I use to read guitar player when I went to college, all I read our
music books now, and I get a couple of free magazines on recording.

I goota go or I'm going to miss lunch with the boys down at the
gas station, hot day that place will be packed.

Lynard you talk a big game about theory. Too bad your too STUPID too use it!

I watched your video's last year when I was trying to stand up for you! You know the video where you had a sleaveless shirt showing your skinny @ss arms you had sunglasses on like you thought you were cool. Also your guitar playing sucked I was trying to be friends with you so I didn't say anything. In that video SERIOUSLY you looked like your name should be Bubba! You'd fit right in at a truck stop in Beaumont! Someone on here mentioned you are GAY! Is that true?