Bobby Revell’s Guitar Advice 03-24-07
If you can play fast, shred, burn, shave heads, then that is what it becomes exactly. When something is old or dead or in the way, you burn it. I know that Montel Williams shaves his head often(not that often) not because of its soulful, atmospheric magic. If on a song you “burn” a scale just remember that a scale is not music, it is what music is derived from. Nobody goes to a museum of art to see every shade of white blank canvas boards. It is the art on the board that you look at. If you play too fast it loses musicality. These exercises are only exercises to gain an attribute from which you can build from. The first rule for any musician is when you learn scales, arpeggios etc. is to stop playing them as they are in raw form and play music! I hear guys all the time playing 3 octave long scale passages on songs–but why kill a song with a scale demonstration? Imagine playing memorable solos with no discernable scales or anything from a book; just music! Listen to Alan Holdsworth or Hendrix you will never say, “wow your descending scale in four note groupings was textbook!” Instead you’ll be saying I dont know what that was but it was awesome!
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I agree that while shredding and very technical playing can be very impressive, if it doesn’t flow with the rest of the song then it shouldn’t be added.
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