I wasted my youth...

[glazbagun]

Sometimes I look at kids like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZzaHi-5lk0

and wonder if MarioKart really was that important.

[absolutely]

No you didn't!

Some people have it and others don't. Don't ponder in the past, the future is more important!

If I ponder too long, I'd probably become suicidal! Don't think "what if I had...?"

Live for today! You've probably got better hand-eye co-ordination that this wee man.

[dilbert]

absolutely said:

No you didn't!

Some people have it and others don't. Don't ponder in the past, the future is more important!

If I ponder too long, I'd probably become suicidal! Don't think "what if I had...?"

Live for today! You've probably got better hand-eye co-ordination that this wee man.

BANG ON!

I played regularly guitar for a while, and there wasn't much I couldn't teach myself to do with it, but I could never pull something together like that, and I didn't meet many people who could.

The ones who really could, were way different, and that little guy is one of those.

[dilbert]

Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4&feature=related 

[Colonial]

I'm the type of muso that other muso's hate. I turn up, do the gig and go. Never really practice.

I'm basically lucky in that at the level I play (semi-pro) I don't have to practice. I just do it.

Have been told I have the natural talent to progress to pro, but to be honest it is not something I want to do. I prefer it being a hobby, not my life.

However, in other things I need to work extremely hard just to get to a basic skill level. One of those things, everyone has their own strengths.

[absolutely]

I can't read music, I am a good singer-ish, its more a matter of confidence with me.

[smiller]

Seems like China is the emerging nation for axe-players, on top of making everything the consumer needs these days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqUV_qNwb6o 

Paganini's Caprice No.24? On guitar? Now, that's wrong.

[suthol]

smiller said:

Seems like China is the emerging nation for axe-players, on top of making everything the consumer needs these days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqUV_qNwb6o 

Paganini's Caprice No.24? On guitar? Now, that's wrong.

Julian Lloyd Webber ( Andrew's brother ) did some variations on this piece in 1977 with the prog rock band Colosseum II .

A bit about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_%28album%2...

Definitely worth the effort to google, apparently some of the torrent sites have the recording

Edited by suthol on Thursday 22 May 02:43

[smiller]

Talking of cello, Jacqueline Du Pre was sensational but this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAurilSDXQ 

is on another planet.

[lockhart flawse]

Yes he's a technically a very good player and I like some of his interpretations. But don't confuse technique with musio making; it has to be allied with creativity. What's the point of just reproducing what someone else plays? It's true that you have to be very good technically to play an advanced piece of music and to be able to interpret it as you would like.

But very few famous rock guitarists are particularly accomplished technicians. Joe Satriani is a very accomplished guitarist but his music is crap but the super fast soloing impresses a lot of people. Basically the whole point of his music is to show off his guitar playing ability.

Most guitarists who stick around offer originality, feel and something almost indefinable. Keith Richard for example. Don't know what he does but I can't do it.

A great guitarist, I would suggest, is someone like Dave Gilmour and he hardly ever (never?) plays a Satriani type solo.

AIMHO of course.

L.F.

still, thankfully, unable to play Stairway To Heaven etc etc

[smiller]

Maybe, LF, that was the wrong example of YYM's playing as he does a fantastic rendition of Elgar's Cello Concerto under the direction of Barenboim.

But I agree wholeheartedly with your point, in as much as many people are impressed by the noodlings of Satch and Vai and Johnson etc. What they miss is the educated choice of phrasing and note selection of the likes of Gilmour, Beck, and Clapton. I must admit that when I first started playing the guitar, I aimed for Satriani / Vai levels of proficiency, yet over the years I've come to appreciate the finer, more delicate and considered, aspects of playing.

Jeff Beck and Dave Gilmour crystallise this type of playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msPiKYuuRiQ 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtiNzci1Wc&feature=related