YLYL possibly going to hell edition.

[NoWaistedSpace]

"Girl scouts that were outside of a dispensary..." : Josh Johnson #shorts - YouTube

 

[ttystikk]

Which era were you?
Wait till the end for my song! #guitar #fingerstyleguitar #acousticguitar #acousticguitar #music - YouTube

Dude is good!

 

[H.A.F.]

 

[ttystikk]

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Where do I order it??

 

[NoWaistedSpace]

Dude is good!

I ran into a couple of these kids over the years.
Their progression of musical mastery is astounding.
Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the best guitar players on the planet.
He set the bar to an unbeatable level in the 80's..
Well, maybe not for much longer.
With the internet, kids can learn stuff in an evening if they have any talent at all.
What a dumbass!
I wasted 1/2 of my 20's trying to learn these types of riffs to play in local bands..
Should have grown weed with that time.

 

[NoWaistedSpace]

And then you have this guy...WTF?
He is AI level mastery.
Drummer Reacts To EL ESTEPARIO SIBERIANO | BEST TIKTOK VIDEOS | COLLAGE - YouTube

 

[619KGB]

 

[NoWaistedSpace]

This is how our generation is "hardwired" from the fear of just the smell alone.
Getting Half Baked in 2022 #jimbreuer - YouTube

 

[H.A.F.]

With the internet, kids can learn stuff in an evening if they have any talent at all.

Sorry, no.

The years of practice to achieve the level of playing to then be able to "learn something in an evening" cannot be overlooked.

In my day you could learn stuff in an evening if you could read music.

Or if you couldn't there was tablature that told you what finger to put on what string.

As a kid that learned the entire first side of 2112 with a cassette player and rewind I spent most of a summer learning basically one song. Granted, after that playing and learning other stuff was much easier, but rock and roll isn't about reading music. Learning by listening, then trying different fingerings for the same notes or chords is a big part of the learning process.

 

[H.A.F.]

And I would put Stevie Ray Vaughn and many others above Malmsteen as a pure guitar player. His thing was speed, and he was one of the first to take it to that horsepower level, But that was his main trick. To this day I couldn't pick a song of his out of a lineup.

 

[619KGB]

 

[NoWaistedSpace]

Sorry, no.

The years of practice to achieve the level of playing to then be able to "learn something in an evening" cannot be overlooked.

In my day you could learn stuff in an evening if you could read music.

Or if you couldn't there was tablature that told you what finger to put on what string.

As a kid that learned the entire first side of 2112 with a cassette player and rewind I spent most of a summer learning basically one song. Granted, after that playing and learning other stuff was much easier, but rock and roll isn't about reading music. Learning by listening, then trying different fingerings for the same notes or chords is a big part of the learning process.

Are you being serious? I can't tell anymore. lol
There was nobody doing what he was doing back then that I know of.
His was lightening fast and super accurate.

 

[H.A.F.]

Are you being serious? I can't tell anymore. lol
There was nobody doing what he was doing back then that I know of.
His was lightening fast and super accurate.

He was lightning fast and super accurate - and there was no heart in it. You can argue who is better guitarists all day long - what you can't argue is that no matter how good the internet is some kid can't play better because of the internet - without tons of practice.

 

[NoWaistedSpace]

He was lightning fast and super accurate - and there was no heart in it. You can argue who is better guitarists all day long - what you can't argue is that no matter how good the internet is some kid can't play better because of the internet - without tons of practice.

I agree about the practice.
What was the first song you ever learned?

 

[H.A.F.]

I agree about the practice.
What was the first song you ever learned?

All together now:

"Smoke on the water"

 

[H.A.F.]

The difference was that my OCD made me learn the solo's too LOL

 

[NoWaistedSpace]

Mine was "Little Brown Jug". lol
I'll tell who was really good was Roy Clark and the "Hee Hah" gang.
I met the guy that done the duck calls on that show.
I met George Jones backstage one time.
You never knew who you would meet at "writer's night" in places like the "Blue Bird Cafe".
Everyone used the "Nashville number system", they could sit in and play anyone's stuff using that method.

 

[NoWaistedSpace]

The Rollmaster is only for cooking - YouTube

 

[ttystikk]

The Rollmaster is only for cooking - YouTube

I think I'm hungry for broccoli sticks!

 

[treefarmercharlie]

Are you being serious? I can't tell anymore. lol
There was nobody doing what he was doing back then that I know of.
His was lightening fast and super accurate.

The problem is there is a huge number of very technical guitarists out there, who can play some amazingly technical shit, but they just sit there and have no presence. It sounds great but it can get boring to watch sometimes. I recently watched an interview with Nuno Bettencourt and he brought this up because people went nuts about a solo he did in a new song when t he video was released. He said he couldn't understand why people thought so highly of it until it dawned on him that people are getting tired of watching talented guitarists just sitting in front of a camera playing technical stuff. He said he thinks people are starting to crave rock style performances again. I watch a lot of guitarist stream live on Twitch and, even though they are all really talented, there only a handful I can watch all day. There's this guy (screenshot below) who nails every Joe Satriani song he plays, but he looks bored when he plays.