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Can we make a poll vote for profanity to be allowed?
I appreciate the obvious technical prowess of the player but it's not my style to listen to
To each their own I guess. Yes, it requires much skill to play like that. Music is in the ear of the beholder, I'm glad some people like it so these chaps have a venue to express themselves. It really not for me though, I wouldn't listen to that any more than I would watch a foreman yelling at his workers in an automated manufacturing plant, which to me would probably be a very similar experience.
As far as giving up music because of watching this, that's just crazy. That would be like saying Clapton should've given up once he heard, well, tons of other guitarists. Music is about touching the heart and moving the soul. For some, they like to touch the heart with a hot poker, but for most of society, their soul is moved by just the right note, at just the right time, with just the right amount of emotion.
I'm glad we have so many ways to measure the quality of art, speed is only one of them. Find the others and you'll find your voice too!
That's funny, I started on a diet of Gary Willis, Victor Wooten, and then guys like Adam Nitti too, but I went the other way, I got a really good country gig and started appreciating the simplicity and emotion and just the songwriting aspect. I've since played funk, r&b, reggae, latin, standard jazz, all different kinds of music and now I'm even working with a flamenco guitarist who I played for years ago. There's some really great metal out there right now, and even some really great pop music! This is a great era for music if you open your ears and your mind!
Just because something isn't your cup of tea does not necessarily discredit it, sometimes it just takes a little getting used to and you never know, you might like it!
Dude's got all that technique yet he wastes it on that wall of noise. I'd sooner listen to someone playing root notes over a pretty ballad..... Ya I know, to each his own.
You can do it too with enough practice. Practice, practice, practice. I can't say it enough. You'll get better over time without even realizing how much you'd improved.
Funny, I didn't even notice the vocals until you mentioned it. My ears always latch on the the bass and drums before anything else..
Funny, I didn't even notice the vocals until you mentioned it. My ears always latch on the the bass and drums before anything else..
Plenty of movement on his part using tap, slap and finger-style, so I'm not discounting his skills, but the only time I could discern anything out of what he was playing besides a blur of sound was when he actually landed on a note for a complete beat. And I'm using some great Bose headphones. Switched up to my Sennheiser's and it wasn't any better. Cool to watch for a few seconds, but just not my cup of tea.
