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I guess its why Capos are enduringly popular, despite the existance of the bar chord.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Not for the sort of stuff I enjoy playing.
"Apeshit in E minor".
or just use more fuzz until no one can tell.
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"At an Italian seminar last year students almost rioted because practically everything I talked about was conceptual - they wanted hardcore information. But I don't think in terms of substitutions and what scale fits what chord."
I'm pretty sure that Metheny can hear a note or a phrase in his head and then instantly play it on guitar without doing much thinking about it.
@Alnico Bill Hicks beat ya to it - stand-up album with some background music (much better than that sounds) called Rant in E Minor.
I do need to break out of pattern-based playing, I know I can do other approaches but I'm just too lazy.
Thanks, i'm going to track that down and laugh all over again.
I will look for 'Rant in E minor' too, nice one.
Using emotive terms like "ignorant" or "less fulfilling" etc just shows the sort of thing I'm talking about. Ignorant to what? Less fulfilled in what? Does playing guitar make me happy? Yes. Can I play my guitar and entertain an audience? Yes. Do they feel less fulfilled because I do everything by ear? No. Am I ignorant to different musical forms? No, I *listen* to them and if I want to play them, I will pick out the notes/rhythmic patterns on my guitar and then absorb them. Heck, they may even morph into my own interpretation of them... not wrong, not right just my version of them.
How many albums have you played on and how much professional work have you done? I'd like to say NONE to prove your point, but I don't need to justify my hobby/pastime/career in terms of financial success and music is an artform - therefore its not a competition. If you treat it as such then frankly, we're poles apart and you wouldn't understand, so there's no point in continuing.
Point here is I'm not being preachy about how *you* choose to approach playing guitar - if you want to learn theory then go right ahead... I'll do it by ear, it works for *me*. You seem to be incredibly prescriptive about your approach - do you refuse to listen to music written by people who aren't "schooled musicians"? Is it beneath you? If I played an Emaj chord would it be impossible for you to play along with me because my approach is different?
I've played with guys who have degrees in playing music - sight-readers etc etc and we all seem to get along fine and play in the same "language". I guess it depends on your physical make up as to whether you inately pick up and absorb music, or need to learn it parrot fashion... like I say, no right or wrong. The outcome is important, how you arrive there is irrelevant - for example, do you think the African bush musicians sit there reading theory books? I doubt it somehow, especially as the "language" of theory is a Western construct. I know a lot of Western musicians who really struggle to play their music though... and to sound as great. Likewise something as complex, harmonically challenging, rhythmically unusual and musically difficult as Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart was written by the great man humming and hanging the lid of a piano... the drummer transposed Don's vision onto a piano and then taught the songs to the other members of the band... however the writer hadn't got a clue about musical theory. Its a work of genius, though... There are hundreds of other examples of this. There are also hundreds of examples of great pieces of music written by "schooled musicians". No right. No wrong.
Your final paragraph is one of the most elitist things I've ever read on a musician's website - I don't think I have any such passport and in fact, I'd suggest that the reverse is true. I would make the point that individualism is something that cannot be taught, though.
Frankly, I'd rather have a "narrow breadth of ability" and do that well, than be narrow minded. "Lazy ignoramuses" - was that designed to offend? I'm not offended (I'd rather be that than look down my nose at others who don't share my point of view), but it kinda backs up my *opinion*, doesn't it...
Like I say, there *IS* no right or wrong...
Peace, y'all. :-)