| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3280 |
| Total number of notes: | 61432 |
I'm curious about improvising. How do you do it? What got me
started was a GP interview with jazz great Herb Ellis in which
he was complaining about today's players all playing too fast.
His advice was to sing everything you play softly to yourself
as you're playing. If you can't sing it, you're playing too fast.
That made a lot of sense to me. It's not easy to do, either, but
it really breaks you out of playing scales and modes. It's inter-
esting to see how what you sing falls into the harmonic structure
of what you're playing over. Does anybody else do this?
I took WJB's advic and listened to the recent GP record of Paul
Gilbert (Racer X). Is this 'speed metal'? I could probably sing
this if I was given enough speed and had electric current being
applied to my nether regions. I just hear technique for its own
sake here. (I know, Bill, what's wrong with technique for its
own sake?) I guess it's just diffrent strokes for different folks.
How do YOU improvise?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 300.1 | Can you sing THAT fast? | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Dave | Fri Jul 17 1987 17:39 | 8 |
Dave,
Aren't you the guy who "reprised" "Starship Trooper" (after my band)
at Winterjam and did the solo with 96th note triplets over "Wurm"?
Or am I mistaking you for someone else?
db
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| 300.2 | well, you know how it is ... | CSSE::CLARK | I'm not Beethoven | Mon Jul 20 1987 10:31 | 5 |
yeah, that was me. I don't always practice what I preach, of course.
It takes more maturity to play a little slower. I'm more mature
now than I was in January :-). (I'm 30 today!)
-Dave
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| 300.3 | HB | MANANA::RUDNICK | Mon Jul 20 1987 12:40 | 5 | |
re: -.1
Happy Birthday Dave...
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| 300.4 | Too fast | ERASER::BUCKLEY | No Substitute for Arrogance | Mon Jul 20 1987 13:37 | 8 |
Happy Birfday Dave.
FYI, Paul Gilbert and his band are neat for chops city, but Chris
Impelletteri is the guy to listen to for 'speed metal'. This guy
was refused a job as Malmsteen's replacement because he played
"Too fast". makes you think, huh?
wjb
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| 300.5 | too fast to live, too young to die ... | CSSE::CLARK | I'm not Beethoven | Mon Jul 20 1987 13:43 | 3 |
maybe he could get a job as a sequencer! ;-)
- Dave
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| 300.6 | 47Kwords per minute but no plot... | JAWS::COTE | The Revenge. This time it's personal. | Mon Jul 20 1987 14:05 | 3 |
...or a typist.
Edd
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| 300.7 | it must be important if GP says so! | CSSE::CLARK | I'm not Beethoven | Tue Jul 21 1987 09:46 | 9 |
In case you hadn't noticed, Guitar Player is devoting its next issue
to ...
SPEED!
How to get it
How to use it to pick up gurls
How to play ridiculously fast
etc.
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