Re: WAS: Who uses looping in their promo material? NOW:Prerecordedmaterial

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

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> Lately I have been having a lot of  fun with 7/8 and 5/4, which are 
>rather 
> basic compared to the Indian  way ;-)  but I have experienced that the 
> more time you spend  improvising according to an odd rhythm the less 
>"odd" 
> it feels. Until  it becomes part of your musical "inner radar" as simply 
> natural.

Good for you. Playing in odd signatures is a major weakness of mine that
I just haven't had the time to address.  Of course now, I perform with
no meter, but in my past experience in playing progressive rock and
jazz in odd time signatures, I always struggled with soloing over these
forms. It's one of my Achilles Heel's.

> To me this experience strengthens my belief that the ability to make 
> music (to "shred" in a meaningful way) is not coming out of technical 
> playing skills but rather as the fruit of your musical imagination.

I'd say that is more true for the more mature and seasoned shreaders. I can
say for a fact that when I was 19 years old, for me and the handful of 
other
rockers in the area, creativity was the last thing on our minds when it 
came
to soloing. We were in  race with the devil. If there wasn't smoke coming
off of our guitar necks and we weren't chewing through one pick after 
another
than someting was wrong. We didn't really care about how creative the solos
were....rather it was all about the flash and speed. And when you are 
playing
that fast, there is not much more you can do but play scales and 
arpeggios, 
which
isn't exactly creative.....some of us now call that "practicing" the 
rudiments, rather
than performing a live solo. :) But honestly, if you listen to most of 
these 
guys
soling, it is predominantly scales and arpeggios.

I gave up on that approach when I discovered Racer X's second album 
"Second 
Heat"
with one of Gilbert's protoge student, Bruce Broulliette dueling with him. 
Since then,
I have never heard another human being play the guitar that fast. In fact, 
when I first
heard it, my ego was shocked and stunned, because I couldn't even mimick 
the 
speed
like I did with Gilbert, Malmsteen, etc. I was convinced that this guy 
sold 
his soul to
the devil to play that super huma fast. I heard it and said to myself: 
"impossible".

> "Chops" being just the starting point as part of the toolbox.

Agreed.

Kris


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