Black Baptista

[N E Y]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16U1s1bBEw4

[Ted]

Oh, YEAH!!!!!!!

[aussiepete]

Frank Zappa's legacy

[Ted]

Here's Bryan Baker talking and playing a little bit on his playing.

Bryan Baker of Black Baptista:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNRiGG6i ... re=related

Any thoughts?

[N E Y]

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"As a species,we guitarists don't pay attention to rhythm at all sometimes"
-Bryan Baker


Bryan is telling the naked the truth. I did a workshop in Woodstock NY for GP just on rhythm....not maximum speed picking!!! Bad time (timing) and no rhythmic sense, is a musical disaster for most guitarists....The lack of rhythm awareness kills any chance of excellence, let alone greatness, right in the bud.....and that deafness to time and rhythm, is where most are stuck in the quicksands of musical insignificance.



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[Ted]

I hear that!

Playing and/or practicing alone a lot doesn't help. But that's what happens. I play a lot with metronomes and drum machines, which is fine. But when a player gets together with a real drummer to play some live music, it can throw a guy way off if he hasn't practiced often with others -- and especially drummers. That drummer might do something unexpected (A drummer -- doing something unexpected? Imagine that!) and mess everything up! More often than not however, the culprit was me - not the drummer.

Another screwer-upper of the rhythm is just plugging in and playing on the electric with all the toys, which I do often enough. I am just having fun and I am for the most part completely unconcerned about rhythm. I think I have it tucked away and playing along in the back of my head, but that's not really true. I'm just wailing away and not caring about the wicked world one bit. But I think some of that is good. Playing guitar has got to be fun and joyful! I think that's why most of us got into it in the first place. Wah pedals and distortion boxes and whammy bars can really cause a stir. Musicians are crazy enough as it is -- then go ahead and give a guitar player a box full of electronic goodies to play with and he goes completely out of his mind and loses track of everything -- not only the rhythm!

Strumming along with the acoustic and singing songs can be another rhythm-wrecker. A guy thinks he's all smooth as silk as he's hollering along with his Mojo Hand - but again -- when he gets with other players to try and do the same thing he did when he was all alone -- there's a lot of re-work to be done before everyone sounds good together.

I suppose, they don't call it Rhythm & Blues for nothing.

[Ted]

"The Ghost Inside"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsTDcW9T ... playnext=1