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Q: Can you call someone a great player if he can only produce great work under the guidance of a superior artist?
Just listen to it.
It is just perfect.
While I am at it- have a listen to Gadd's drum work on this track, especially at the end:
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Glad I could help.
I wouldn't be so niggardly as to deny the description "great player" to Carlton. And of course he was more than a guitar player with SD - as far as I can gather he was practically an MD on some of their stuff in terms of coming up with instrumental arrangements, co-ordinating other musicians etc. And he has multi production credits with major artists. So phenomenal skills.
And yet you come up against the problem that the most celebrated thing he's done under his own name is probably the one-notch-above-muzak Mr 335. The highlight of his live shows is an instrumental version of Josie. Any amount of artists with a fraction of his sophistication have made lots of music under their own name that I love hearing. I'm not sure he's made any.
when I'm writing I have some ingrained knowledge of notes and intervals but what I'm really thinking in is accent patterns, "busyness level" and relative level of focus with the other instruments.
and how cool it sounds
I started with Blues scales ..pentatonics ect and moved on to full scales in all positions both 3 note and standard and finally joinng 3nps scales together ...
Recenty iv been working a lot on arpeggios over various chords..a lot of 2 5 1 progressions and getting to the point i know what i am playing at any part of what i play ...so really im thinking more about the chords and chord tones..
A good book for scales and intervalic playing is The serious jazz practise book by Barry Finnerty ...life times worth of material in it
So do bassists.
They also bitch and moan about guitarists.
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I've heard a lot of players (both those strong on theory and those are totally ignorant of theory) who don't do that. They're too busy playing the guitar to play the song.
But they each 'serve the song'.
but it's the choice of notes and feel needed to lift song that's most important.
Great players like Gilmour, Clapton, Beck and Harrison knew what notes to play, despite their often lack of theorey knowledge, that's not a knock on players who have the knowledge just one example of being a musician first guitarist second.
Players like Carlton, Peluso, Ford and Lukather also play great solos that are right for the song, knowledge doesn't mean no feel or a lack of empathy for song, just means you have the tools or vocabulary to voice them.
I do think though that theory is important when practising because it will give ideas ..notes ..scales ect that will work plus it gives new ideas that can become part of your playing ...
But at the end of the day no one needs theory to communicate with people...the way i look at it theory dosnt do any harm and can help iff used with in my opinion good feel and phrasing ...
Have your cake and eat it...thats what i say