Let's hear your thoughts.................
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Let's hear your thoughts.................
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perseverance
If you leave the house, you're just asking for it.
Motivation and perseverence, and connections
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
Simplicity...........!
Knowing what and when to NOT play.
One of my teachers used to say that they should make a Jim Hall pill.
Taste and timeliness. The latter is largely unplanned and determined by others (those who are influenced).
Timing, note choice and dynamics.
funny......nobody's saying "speed and tone." :lol
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
being a good listener.
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
:yayOriginally Posted by cooltone
You can't be a great player without good ears. However, good listening only keeps me from being truly awful.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Great rythm chops and resigning to a life of annonymity.
If you're bored, you're not groovin'.
Instinct and skill together make the player great, a rare combination.
Confidence in your own abilities. Humility and patience. But above all,, good ears. You have to listen to whats going on, and compliment the music, not over power it.
CT.:ahem
Being Humble, Knowing when to hold back and let others play.
Say it in one note rather than a riffing. Being open minded and willing to listen and learn.There are always better players to respect.Even if they are not all around players, great with styles.The greatest bands usually have chemistry and that usually works more than egos and talent.
Flair, panache, a shitload of chops, and the time, talent, and ability to devote yourself to your art, no matter what.
I believe you have to genuinely add notes because you feel they belong there. It has to come naturally whether you have chops or not. Be real.
I think the most memorable guitarists for me whether they be Chuck Berry or someone at the local open mic they have had there own style and good timing. Yeah........timing. That's important.
There's no recipe. If I hear something that gets to me in that way, it's great, to me, for lack of a better term.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Attitude
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Where does that put Yngwie?
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
An expensive guitar :bwa :spin :toobad :lol
If you leave the house, you're just asking for it.
HA!~
hmmmmmmmmm
I would like to know more about this " HA!~ " too.
If you're bored, you're not groovin'.
HA!~
If you leave the house, you're just asking for it.
Having someone like SONY greasing Palms !! LOL !!
Being a musician first, and an instrumentalist second.
Musical talent seems to have a large genetic component. Look at the Bach family tree if you need convincing. So past a certain point, all the perseverance, commitment and attitude in the world just won't cut it...
I know, it's not fair.
-Mark
There are two notions of "great." Running through this thread. There's the more ordinary, "Wow, that dude's great" tendency, and then there's the "All time greats." For the latter, Plugger is on it. And then there's the chance involved in recognition.
Timing and having whatever is played just seem to flow naturally from the player (no matter matter how much time and effort went into preparation/practice).
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