Tailon. wrote:
I agree with vicky ...... You have to play a 100 percent correct or play with lighting speed or even stay in the genre of music you playing . But playing one note with emotion and feeling is always gonna be better then showing the technicality of playing .
The penny dropped when I was still working at the first Look and Listen... one of my proudest moments was passing on the "secret" to a slightly younger guy who was all about the shredders and how much better they were than Jimi et al. One day I turned around and said look Dude, it's not about the number of notes, it's about the space between them. Next day he came in, having taken home some different stuff to his usual, huge grin on his face and said, you're right!
That said, I do have fun watching Vai and ilk every now and then (far more interesting than just listening to them, which is telling).
@Willem: this quote from the 99 tips is appropriate too: "90. Restraint
“Don’t play every lick you know before the end of the set, because then you’re screwed. You’ll just end up repeating yourself. But it’s a very youthful thing to jam—it’s like sowing wild oats. But as grow older, you become interested in doing something more lasting. You have to settle down and make everything count—make sure what you do is worthy of being heard again. I’ve become more devoted to the song, and I feel that jamming, unless it has a goal at the end of it, is pretty much a waste of time.” —Eric Clapton
