Quote (Superchum @ Jul 27 2011 01:53am)
This guy tip toes around brilliance and stupidity. I haven't figured out if I think it's any good or not. In any case, it's a different way of looking at the guitar. Watch the hosts reaction in that second clip. He's actually impressed at 5:35 and 5:43, even though he doesn't like it. I think I am too.
if you thought that was brilliant you shud have seen me on my first day with the guitar with a broken high e string lol
Quote (Me2NiK @ Jul 27 2011 02:51pm)
The great majority of improvising method stems from jazz. Hell, soloing as we know it comes from jazz. Jazz is where the world's most brilliant improvisers go to improvise; there simply doesn't exist the harmonic framework in (most) other music to support such open-ended and long form improvisation. At an academic level, improvisation is taught basically exclusively within the context of jazz because producing a, say, 96-bar solo over a Byrd blues that is interesting and pertinent for the entire duration is still substantially more difficult to produce than a 16-bar solo over basically any rock lexicon changes. More progressive music is a somewhat different animal but the ultimate tenant of a soloist not being expected to improvise for minutes at a time is the same.
I'm not saying you have to like jazz, as a great many people don't and they do fine. But saying jazz is "random notes with no melody" is a strange complaint since the average jazz musician has done a lot more to think about the individual notes that they're picking than the average rock musician has. You just have to train your ear to hear it.
i understand his complaint though, its like listening to impromptu poetry with interpretive dance.. sometimes it works othertimes meh i like some jazz tho