Favorite Guitarists (Jan-30-03)

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dont you just love it when this thread reappears?

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Terry_Kath
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/kurtw ... /kath.html

sorry, i just couldn't help it...i heard 25 or 6 to 4 on the way home, and my jaw just dropped!
i think it would be a very enjoyable experience for you, and i hope the quality of that experience out weighs the resurrection of this thread! < duck and run>

-Drew

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Uncanny coincidence you mention Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4, Drew. In my adolescence I was not much of a Chicago fan. Moreover, with all the brass they used in their tunes, I never linked guitar playing with their material. However, 17 y/o daughter and I listen to an oldies' station on her way to school. We experienced the same jaw dropping experience as I'd give her a head's up as different guitar and bass parts would come up in the song. We were completely lost in the moment, as they say.

Did he begin this with an A5 power chord and go down the fret board to the 3rd, 2nd, 1st frets with the power chord?

But since you went out on a limb and resurrected the thread, I do have to mention Leo Kottke as an artist on the 12 string.

-Sharon

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Hi guys,

Wow, this thread is over one and a half years old! Since I started it, my musical tastes have changed a little and lately I've been listening to (no particular order):

1. Vinnie Moore- the most expressive guitar virtuoso, in my opinion. King of melody and his his music touched me like no other guitar player before him.

2. Michael Romeo- his music is very influenced by classical composers and other more progressive players. I highly recommend checking him out.

3. Tom Hess- a master of combining three awesome musical styles: neo-classical, progressive and dramatic and he is also my current guitar teacher.

4. John Petrucci- a monster player, and Dream Theater is one of the greatest progressive bands ever!

5. Lately, I've been listening to classical music more and more. I heard Chopin for the first time this summer, and I love his virtuosity and expression. I know Chopin was not a guitar player, but his music is still great!

Anyway, here is the list of what I am listening to currently, for anyone who is interested in checking out some new players and is into that genre of music.

-Mike

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"Moreover, with all the brass they used in their tunes, I never linked guitar playing with their material."

oh

were there horns in that band? <g>

honest to God, i barely heard them
to me it was always and only the guitar.

as a matter of fact, all the 'horn introduction' bands left me cold, except when the Electric Flag did A Long Time Coming, and Butterfield did the Ressurection of Pig Boy Crabshaw....that really bothered the pants off me.

i've had the good luck to see Leo in person three times
he's stupefying


i left something out of my first post, and it was that listening to Mr. Kath, i had a new perception of his playing, not that there aren't enough adjectives etc, but because my ear has been 'tuned' by my efforts at practice.

in that connection, i've had a couple of insights about how 'fast' one hears their own playing, and how that influences your balance of energy for motion of the right hand with gravity, where momentum actually helps you in exectuing a nice tremelo, or at least the ability to captialize on that extra push.

there is a sweet spot, starting in the forearm (not the elbow) that transfers its motion and momentum to your hand, as the wrist 'doorknobs' back and forth. the hand is positioned by the motion of the elbow, but the attack is governed by a combination of the motion from the elbow, the rotation of the forearm, the momentum of the hand, and the depth and angle of the pick by the fingers...im not a physics person, but i can feel that it has to do with the inactive fingers on the right hand, spread or tucked, helps your speed without an increase in effort.

but it was in mentally following what i was hearing being informed by my own experience in practicing that let me slow it down in real time, and hear it at this new level, as if the quality of communication improved, and it did, but not because of the music, after all, that track hasn't changed in thirty five years, but i must have, to be able to hear it with awe AND clarity.

Best,
Drew

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I can't really answer this question at this point. Still, one song i learned that REALLY rocks on the guitar, is

Joe Satriani: With me, without me (can't remember esxacly). everyones heard this. it's beutiful, and technically challenging. I'll probably learn it properly some day, now that i'm into proper technique

-Joe