classical influences

  • Thread starter Thread starter Chris Tondreau
  • Start date Start date
Chris Tondreau

Chris Tondreau

Member
Hey there;

I grew up listening to a lot of the guitarists from the '80's metal bands, when it was pretty common for a number of players to have backgrounds in playing classical guitar - starting with Randy Rhodes, through to Rik Emmett (Triumph), and perhaps, most notably, Malmsteen. (and a number of others, of course...)

Anyway... I was talking to a friend of mine, and according to her son, it is still (or again?) popular for guitarists to have a background in classical playing techniques. I haven't really followed the "New Metal" (or Nu Metal...) as much lately (listen mostly to commercial hard-rock/alternative/pop radio), so I'm not really that up on it any more. I was just wondering which of these players actually DO have classical backgrounds?? ( I guess I'm thinking of bands along the lines of Sevendust, Slipknot, etc., but I may be wrong...) I'm looking forward to being re-enlightened, and maybe picking up some new band "interests."

Thanks!!

Chris
 
I TOTALLY agree!! Actually, it was because of a lot of these players that I decided to pursue classical myself. I eventually got an honours degree in music with classical guitar as my instrument. It's interesting that the two composers that you picked happened to be two of my absolute favourites.

Sor: Theme and Variations on The Magic Flute (Mozart). AWESOME piece.... to hear Segovia or John Williams play it is nothing short of inspiring.

Bach: IMHO, the fourth Lute Suite is one of the greatest pieces ever in the classical guitar repertoire.

Chris
 
disappointed

I'm a little disappointed this thread was so unpopular because I'd really like to hear about some good classical guitar... I studied Jazz performance in college but shyed away from classical style for lack of my own chops and for the sake of keeping manly fingernails... :D

I'd love to know some more good places to start developing an appreciation.

mm
 
I'm a big fan of the late Julian Bream.When I was in college,the classical guys in my guitar group were doing the Sor Studies,Carcassi Studies,the Villa Lobos stuff,Ponce,third Bach lute suite,etc.My teacher was James Eddy,who studied under Segovia and his Asst. Jose Tomas.I attended one of Tomas' master classes once back in the mid 70s.He was playing a custom 8 string Ramirez and chain smoking Pall Malls.He would sight sing the student's part solfeggio style (la-re-mi-so...) to teach phrasing.The finest guitarist of our group ended up a plumber,go figure...
 
Man I grew up listening to the same stuff...80's metal, now I am talking about TRUE metal like Priest, Maiden, Accept...not those pussy hair bands. Most of the European metal bands of the 80's and of course Randy Rhoads here in the US were heavily influenced by classical music and it showed. I dont hear that influence ANYWHERE in todays numetal acts. Seattle killed it all!!! Grunge killed true metal...even though a lot of those bands were influenced by the same stuff we listened to. They just chose not to play technical...guess if was just too tuff for em, anyway most of todays so-called metal was influence by grunge and Metallica. Now, if you listen to early Metallica you can hear their influences...Euro-80's Metal...but they lost that somewhere along the way and so everybody was influenced by their thrash sound but not the technical side of the playing...ahhhhhhh the memories!!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top