15
DEC
2014
DEC
2014
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Comparing can be a good thing
Making comparisons between ourselves and other guitarists is very useful in order to progress as musicians. Just about all guitarists have learned from players that they admired. This could be people they knew personally or their rock and roll heroes on old crackly LPs.
We need to identify characteristics, approaches or ‘tricks’ of other players in order to add to our own skillsets. This kind of comparing is healthy and positive.
The dark side
It is very easy, though, for ...
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26
APR
2013
APR
2013
Why should we learn guitar licks?
“Isn’t it better to just improvise?”
The thing to recognise about improvising is that nobody does it in the purest sense of creating entirely original phrases spontaneously.
In reality an improvised solo is a combination of phrases (aka ‘licks’) that the performer has already picked up in the past; glued together with some improvisation.
Some guitarists may claim that they have never consciously sat down and learned and guitar licks.
That may be true, but we have all absorbed ...
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12
MAR
2013
MAR
2013
