sit down and figure out how to make it fun. Find a teacher on line that just shows you some simple hot licks and learn a few.
The best way to judge your choices is to check your emotions. Before you start ...do you feel apprehensive, fearful, or defeated? Then find a vid where that doesn't happen.
One of the best things I ever did was cancel my TV subscription. Suddenly overnight ...time to do
all that sh@t I promised myself.
It worked BIG TIME.
YOU ARE NOT LIMITED BY LIMITATIONS
Some of the most admired players in the world have many techniques they tried but still can not do.
They do not care...they took a different route to the top. They found out what their strengths were and perfected them.
Check out David Howell Evans better known as The Edge ...listen carefully to how simple his playing often is. BUT... a big part of his sound is his use of 'Delay'. Before you sneer get a delay and try and copy it. GOOD F-ING LUCK!!! It is'nt easy. LOL
One last thing ...he taught himself this before we all had the advantages of a pedal where we can 'tap' out the tempo or preset the timing.
How about Jack White??? his playing uses a limited technique. BUT the composition of what he plays is stellar, Listen to is his use of dynamics and expression. He always knows where he should leave rests and when to add even more notes ...this is not just dumb luck. Look at his tone ...it is original and refreshing. It too did not happen by magic.
Who hasn't heard of Johnny Marr. By rejecting a Marshall stack and a Les Paul he reinvented what rock guitar can be. Can you imagine the ridicule he got from players like you and I with our dirt tones when he started???
Just remember when you start on your musical journey.
"Those who are beyond ridicule are nobody's"
So this year why not Re-Event yourself. Instead of trying to be Hendrix, Van Halen. or_____.
Try the useful challenge of being YOU!
I look forward to watching an interview of you on-line. I might learn something.
REMEMBER
The players I just showed you in this Post are hundreds of times more famous AND RESPECTED...then 99% of all amazingly skillful Fusion players and guys that can shred at light speed.
WHY! maybe because that most of the players with the pyro technique have nothing new to musically say?
Perhaps people who do not play but love to listen wish to be musically spoken to ...not shouted at. Perhaps they also wish to hear something fresh and new and above all understandable.
Perhaps.. you need to be musically articulate...and take your listeners by the hand on your musical journey ...not bulldoze them with flash and self indulgence.
Wynton Marsellis
Perhaps the best trumpet player alive who does serious classical dates and Jazz, Said much the same thing. He said that the young players coming up can play precise phrases at lightning speed but give them a Louis Armstrong tune and it turns out they have very lame timing and phrasing and a serious lack of tone.
I have to admit I heard Wynton's ideas and it made may look at rock guitar players more closely.
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Spot on.
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