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CDee

See how many of these you recognise without cheating!

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AlanRatcliffe

? Eep! Only 70! Was doing OK until the 40s...

Bob-Dubery

That was quite interesting. OK... my score was 42, which is NOT interesting. But then what do us acoustic guitarists know about Rock 'n Roll?

What I found interesting was that this guy is clearly a very good player yet made a mess of some those. Not in fumbling notes but in completely missing the feel, the groove of the original. EG Sultans of Swing. I also couldn't tell if he was playing "All Right Now" or Steve Miller's "Rocking me Baby". The riffs are very similar, and the way he played it, sort of efficiently without any real feeling or nuance, it could have been either.

So that was interesting - sometimes you need more than the right notes.

Keira-WitherKay

X-rated Bob, the unplugged one-chord wonder wrote That was quite interesting. OK... my score was 42, which is NOT interesting. But then what do us acoustic guitarists know about Rock 'n Roll?

What I found interesting was that this guy is clearly a very good player yet made a mess of some those. Not in fumbling notes but in completely missing the feel, the groove of the original. EG Sultans of Swing. I also couldn't tell if he was playing "All Right Now" or Steve Miller's "Rocking me Baby". The riffs are very similar, and the way he played it, sort of efficiently without any real feeling or nuance, it could have been either.

So that was interesting - sometimes you need more than the right notes.

+ 1000 to you there Bob....

yeah i think that quote of yours should go down in the annuls of guitar history ....and should be the dominant thought on every music students mind........ and tutors too........... " you need more than just the right notes"

strangly enough we were discussing it amongst some muso's and myself at my gig last night....... the very same thing .....

so yeah this comment is not exclusive to this guy but something everyone should bear in mind...........

well said Bob.......... karma'd you for this

peacxe and light
keira

Squonk

I think to be fair to this Dude is that his primary concern was not playing the notes with feeling but rather to squeeze 100 riffs together, which is a bit of a lark rather than a study in the wether he played the notes correctly or not.

It seems as though he was running the 100m, he might play each piece differently if it was in the context of each individual song.
But to even come up with 100 consecutive riffs in 7 minutes is pretty impressive.
I will have to listen again to get the score.

Steve Morse in one of the Deep Purple concerts does a similar thing before the start of Smoke on The Water, although not 100 riffs, but he does a couple. ?