Post by Skeleton Keys on Dec 28, 2007 21:45:02 GMT -4
Kathrine Thomas... Aka "The Great Kat"...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RLsZfeqyoM
What shit.
Personally, I think we are all musicians first and formost, no matter what our forte, guitar, vihuela, piano, violin, whatever.
Music is a language, most surely, and like any language, it has it's dialects... Kathrine's is just a foreign brand of gibberish.
I think there are applications of speed in music that can be very useful and worthwile, but when it comes down to people practicing in thier bedrooms for 14.6 hours a day to be able to shred at 300 bpm... what comes out is complete shit. Sure, it's helluvalota fun to fly across frets at the speed of sound, but if that's all you do... Then it's like having a hive of bees rather than a brain listening to it... Meaning, when people start applying it to music... Thier mixing to worlds here.
This is nothing on virtuoso, however. For instance, I think Steve Vai is a fantastic musician. I've never heard anyone pull emotion out of thier instrument when I hear him play Tender Surrender. Absolutely amazing. Plus, he's a brilliant technician. Same with Satch, Jennifer Batten, Pual Gilbert, and all of those guys(gals)... It's just when people make a sport out playing does it really bother me... I mean really, there's more to playing than theory and technique...
And plus, to hear "Look at me! I can play 37 notes a second!" or something along those lines lets me know what I'm looking at. Sure, to the non-guitar playing joe, it's the most amazing thing in the world... Becuase just through the cliched thoughts invoked by the media and hair metal bands circa the 80's, do alot of people think speed means skill. I just pity those who treat the guitar this way, and music in general, becuase it they do, they'll never know what it really means to be in love with their instrument... I think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RLsZfeqyoM
What shit.
Personally, I think we are all musicians first and formost, no matter what our forte, guitar, vihuela, piano, violin, whatever.
Music is a language, most surely, and like any language, it has it's dialects... Kathrine's is just a foreign brand of gibberish.
I think there are applications of speed in music that can be very useful and worthwile, but when it comes down to people practicing in thier bedrooms for 14.6 hours a day to be able to shred at 300 bpm... what comes out is complete shit. Sure, it's helluvalota fun to fly across frets at the speed of sound, but if that's all you do... Then it's like having a hive of bees rather than a brain listening to it... Meaning, when people start applying it to music... Thier mixing to worlds here.
This is nothing on virtuoso, however. For instance, I think Steve Vai is a fantastic musician. I've never heard anyone pull emotion out of thier instrument when I hear him play Tender Surrender. Absolutely amazing. Plus, he's a brilliant technician. Same with Satch, Jennifer Batten, Pual Gilbert, and all of those guys(gals)... It's just when people make a sport out playing does it really bother me... I mean really, there's more to playing than theory and technique...
And plus, to hear "Look at me! I can play 37 notes a second!" or something along those lines lets me know what I'm looking at. Sure, to the non-guitar playing joe, it's the most amazing thing in the world... Becuase just through the cliched thoughts invoked by the media and hair metal bands circa the 80's, do alot of people think speed means skill. I just pity those who treat the guitar this way, and music in general, becuase it they do, they'll never know what it really means to be in love with their instrument... I think.