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Michael is over 60........
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Some of us might not be able to play as fast as the average teenager, but most of us can play things that they haven't learned yet, and won't learn without considerable practice.
Hoof said: What does drop off is our musical invention. Most new scientific ideas are dreamed up as the developing brain meets established thinking. It's similar with musical ideas. I don't buy any ageist crap about being over the hill or, conversely, too young to appreciate something.
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Notice how guitars seem to get higher the older you are, stops you having to bend your wrists so far.
Think of it with your voice, Tom Jones always sings well if not better, than he did 20 years ago, yet Elton John and McCartney sound awful now, due to possible damage they did playing with chemical sets when younger!
I think that's just the natural loss of the ability to hit the high notes that comes with age combined with a refusal to transpose to a lower key. Agree that Tom Jones still sounds great.
Jeff Beck is a fine example here, I think he was just getting better and better up until he was about 65 (he's 70 now), really pushing his playing, not necessarily with notes per minute, but with expressiveness. Only in the very last few years has he stopped progressing I think, yet still a mighty fine player.
The other end I think is someone like Gilmour, still a fine player but has been inspirationally defunct for a while now - appreciate such an opinion may upset a few people on here!
I have been lucky enough to have seen Albert Lee at his peak and also last year on his 70th birthday tour. I felt so sad for the latter concert as he was so reliant on tremolo and small flurries of notes, not what he was known for. He is a classic case of a guitarist that cannot do his own back catalogue, though his legacy as a trail blazing country player is intact.
age catches up with us all, our reactions get slower so we try and compensate in other areas, such as choice of note, tone and expression.
getting old has its advantages as well, and major one is you don't really give a shit what people think about your playing as you become the final arbitrator. You learn to understand when you play well or badly that that is not the only requirement, and that was it a good night for the audience and band, if so, who cares about some bum notes here and there, work on it next time.
I really enjoy playing what I do and guitar has given me decades of pleasure
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