Guitar Players..and while we're at it.....

[ZenG]

Much is made of the decline of modern rock music.....

Well I hold you rock guitar players personally responsible for that.

It's not the songs so much...no.....a lot of modern rock songs aren't bad at all....

It's the HORRIBLE friggin' mindless guitar fills and bridges.....

Song after song ruined by a guitar fill that no thought went into...just a collection of hammer-ons and pulls to lets us know you own a Tele and can mindlessly shred and solo forever if need be...

....and sustained upper register notes designed to pierce 1/2 inch steel plate like a Laser......

Actually many of the songs would be way better if you just didn't bother doing the fill or bridge....

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[Bassammich]

AMEN!

 

[Ubersheist]

Much is made of the decline of modern rock music.....

Well I hold you rock guitar players personally responsible for that.

It's not the songs so much...no.....a lot of modern rock songs aren't bad at all....

It's the HORRIBLE friggin' mindless guitar fills and bridges.....

Song after song ruined by a guitar fill that no thought went into...just a collection of hammer-ons and pulls to lets us know you own a Tele and can mindlessly shred and solo forever if need be...

....and sustained upper register notes designed to pierce 1/2 inch steel plate like a Laser......

Actually many of the songs would be way better if you just didn't bother doing the fill or bridge....

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These are the complaints of bassist, singers, drummers, and pretty much anyone else other than the guitarist in the band ever since Hendrix. The electric guitar is extremely dynamic. Most guitarist don't understand how much more dynamic they are. Couple that with how the guitar usually sounds better loud, and guitarists are more often drawn to Rock n' Roll or metal or harder stuff... The result is guitarists that are too loud, and over play, which squashes the subtleties the rest of the band might have been able to provide. Keyboardists are often almost as bad, but not as much. It's frustrating, and is why not many good bassists and drummers enjoy going to blues jams.

 

[elgecko]

....and sustained upper register notes designed to pierce 1/2 inch steel plate like a Laser.........

Santana's been doing that one for what? Close to 50 years now?

 

[bluesblaster]

mindless fills, hell you could make that argument about drummers and bass players and keyboard players and............. you get the point. As always, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

 

[two fingers]

mindless fills, hell you could make that argument about drummers and bass players and keyboard players and............. you get the point. As always, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Heck I find it more on vocals than any instrument.

 

[bluesblaster]

yup, them too

 

[John Swartz]

Q: What do you throw a drowning guitarist?
A: His amp!

Sorry, couldn't resist...

 

[droo46]

The pendulum swings. Guitar music has come in and out of vogue before.

 

[AltGrendel]

Heck I find it more on vocals than any instrument.

Yea, that "Diva Warble" they throw into every single song, and always in the wrong spot.

 

[Clivus58]

IMHO George Harrison got it right more often than any other guitarist that I am aware of.