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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
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 Posted - 03/05/2008 : 09:09:43
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I like to mess around with different tunings as well..i recently bought a couple of new acoustics because i want to get away from the electric a little bit....one of my favs is dropping the two E strings down to a D..we call it the 'celtic' tuning as a lot of the folk players use it..i saw Arty McGlynn use it and also Richard Thompson to great effect.....i also too have got a bit tired of endless guitar solos and noodlings in pentatonic scales that go nowhere,thats why i gave jeff beck as an example....tasteful and has something a bit cleverer than usual going on with a song for a instrumental artist..... i try to follow his example a little bit with how he bends strings to sound like a sitar or synth player using the pitch wheel on his keyboard....i'm also getting more interested in what the lyrics have to say in a song rather than just wish they were out of the way for the solo... short and sweet solos with something interesting to say is the way i think........ but i still love some of the original chicago guys like john lee hooker,muddy,B.B. buddy guy and jimmie rogers etc....a good chicago blues played well makes the ladies want to shake their moneymaker....... ........ |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2008 : 14:52:16
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Some of the above opinions indicate that it is very easy to play the blues, something you do in the start of your guitar learning.
I disagree very much to this, why? It�s not easy to play the blues well. It�s in fact very hard to make it sound good and interesting. It has nothing to do with playing the blues scale as fast as possible. There are thousands and thousands of blues guitar players but few of them are really good and interesting. This has nothing to do with skills and technique, it�s all about emotion, tone and phrasing.
I have tried for 40 years to play blues guitar, and I�m not satisfied yet� And I love the blues, and I really want to play it great.
If you take a blues guitar player like Hound Dog Taylor, he has zero technique, he plays a lot of false notes, BUT he really can play the blues and make it sound good. He has the SOMETHING that so many don�t have.
Peter Green had it, Stevie Ray had it etc. But as you know Peter Green was a slow player, but as you who have heard his work with Fleetwood Mac might have noticed that his guitar playing is just magical. He even used a handful of slow notes for a whole instrumental, The Supernatural, to make the hairs of my back to rise.
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sp-1
Platinum Member
Germany
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Posted - 03/05/2008 : 15:20:24
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Originally posted by Goran
Some of the above opinions indicate that it is very easy to play the blues, something you do in the start of your guitar learning.
I disagree very much to this, why? It�s not easy to play the blues well. It�s in fact very hard to make it sound good and interesting. It has nothing to do with playing the blues scale as fast as possible. There are thousands and thousands of blues guitar players but few of them are really good and interesting. This has nothing to do with skills and technique, it�s all about emotion, tone and phrasing.
I have tried for 40 years to play blues guitar, and I�m not satisfied yet� And I love the blues, and I really want to play it great.
If you take a blues guitar player like Hound Dog Taylor, he has zero technique, he plays a lot of false notes, BUT he really can play the blues and make it sound good. He has the SOMETHING that so many don�t have.
Peter Green had it, Stevie Ray had it etc. But as you know Peter Green was a slow player, but as you who have heard his work with Fleetwood Mac might have noticed that his guitar playing is just magical. He even used a handful of slow notes for a whole instrumental, The Supernatural, to make the hairs of my back to rise.
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kulten
Gold Member
France
516 Posts |
Posted - 03/19/2008 : 14:42:30
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now I have a Telecaster, so I must play blues... the only Blues CD I have is : "Robert Johnson"...
not bad, isn't it ?
in fact, just before being a SYB-3 electromaker addict, I was a punk bass player and played gigs with lot of blues, that was always cool and I do love playing blues tunes with my bass.
I will play blues more often, now. |
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jak84
Bronze Member
USA
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Posted - 04/06/2008 : 03:52:17
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Quote 'Well to some degree i was trying to be contentious. As i said in my first post i love BB King, Albert King, Albert Collins etc. but i can't bear Clapton. And i love Hendrix......'Quote
Contentious is the operative word to your post. The lack of which is why I've loved this site from the beginning. While everyone is entitled to their opinion, to try and box the 'art' of guitar playing into some sort of acceptable standard is ridiculous. The blues along with many other 'originating' guitar forms have all influenced and continue influencing new and advanced players alike. If an individual e.g. Eric Clapton decides to take a certain genre as an influence and run with it in their own direction then so be it. I don't think that he's out there calling himself the new Messiah of the blues.
This isn't about being a Clapton fan, it's just a response to a very contradictory post. Not sure what you have against the blues, actually not sure you really know what 'blues' actually is. To try and say some guy or band in a bar doesn't know anything of what he's playin because he may be from Detroit or San Diego or whatever and not from Memphis or the like is a bit shallow; and not sure what knowing the blues has to do with being able to play a solo or not....
ah...... I'm done ranting. ZToo many |
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DeFrag
Moderator
USA
3409 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2008 : 06:23:13
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Blues Guitar Fans Anywhere In Here?
