I'm giving up playing the guitar

Dexter Inferno said:
I stopped watching videos like these years ago. Why? Because while they're technically proficient, they have absolutely zero character or personality in their playing - which is what made Yngwie so great. He had that in spades. Now some may not like that personality, but nobody can argue that he doesn't have his very own style.

These asian kids though (like most modern Metal players) have absolutely no identity. They're just good at what they do and are just...forgettable.

Malcolm Young was a limited player but he had one thing he was fucking great at, and no other player on the planet sounded like him.
Be like Malcolm. Find the thing you're great at that no one else does.
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:thu: Nailed it again, Dex!
 
Jbird said:
I think you guys are missing the point.

Wouldn't it be nice to have the ability to play like Yngwie, even if you had no desire to actually do so?
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Been there, done it, bought the gaudy-frilly-puffy-pirate t-shirt. I spent my college years chasing that (and Paul Gilbert/Vai/Satriani), and even though I caught up to it and maintained it for several years, it was......hollow, quite honestly. And one day, I decided I was tired of maintaining the ridiculousness of it all, and stopped. Best decision I ever made regarding my playing. Now, I don't regret having done it, because there are times when I can whip those techniques out when called upon to do so. But, it isn't really me, and isn't analogous to my personal style of playing the instrument.
 
....and that's fine for classical, where 99% of the players are merely copying someone else's arrangement. Few care about the spin you'd put on most classical pieces.
 
jp_nyc said:
People probably said the same thing about Eddie and Yngwie when they were kids copying Hendrix note for note.
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Having grown up in the same city as Eddie and actually attended some back yard parties that he played at, I can attest that everyone was extremely impressed and thought he would revolutionize rock guitar.
 
Jbird said:
More tolerable than Bill Frisell, anyways :wink:
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You should fly to Europe and check him out live with MacArthur Genius Mary Halvorson.

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Devil is Dill said:
Dear [Korean girl].....
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Oh man, that's a really old one! Remind me: what was the story behind that 'Dear [Korean girl' GJ meme? I wanna say it was something to do with that guy who fancied himself a classical musical composer. I can't remember his moniker. Dude with little round glasses.
 
Motorik said:
Oh man, that's a really old one! Remind me: what was the story behind that 'Dear [Korean girl' GJ meme? I wanna say it was something to do with that guy who fancied himself a classical musical composer. I can't remember his moniker. Dude with little round glasses.
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Yeah, it was some kid in a college music program somewhere who'd post these creepy/weird pickup stories.

Sometimes I really miss HCGJ.
 
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