How important are scales and theory in your guitar playing?

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Do you use theory and scales in your guitar playing?

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chamelious said:
And i'd like to add that this is my last post on this board. People like you are whats wrong with the music industry, and the world in general.
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Man ..... I thought you weren't butthurt?

Not gonna post on the board anymore because gerg said what he always says to everyone?

Guess how many times he's pointed out that I'm a fat old guy playing tired blues licks!
com'n ....... guess.
Well, I don't actually know exactly but it's definitely a higher number than your drumber can count to! :D

If you can't take people poking fun atcha this is the wrong business to be in ...... relacks!
Man ....... :rolleyes:
 
yet he has always been very supportive of my career in synths :D


Imagine the first bad review of a gig or record release chamelious....you responded exactly the way you're not supposed to on a message board...by defending yourself, you should roll with the punches and get a few jabs in yourself..life's tough, don't be a pussy for all of it :rolleyes:
 
Greg_L said:
Guys, I was being serious.
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well duh!
we all know how seriously you take music and your passion for helping bands achieve their full potential.
You're simply pointing out that real musicians have to earn that white belt.

:D:D
 
Lt. Bob said:
well duh!
we all know how seriously you take music and your passion for helping bands achieve their full potential.
You're simply pointing out that real musicians have to earn that white belt.

:D:D
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Yeah. White belts in music are the opposite of white belts in karate.
 
I think learning scales are essential, to most styles.

I think that more emphasis in guitar should be put on scales than reading music.

I think you can go over board with scales, like in most heavy guitar solos, its just some dude playing scales at superspeed, I dont fiond that particularly interesting.

use the scales as a foundation, the rest is from the heart
 
I think investing in guitar loop samples is the way forward...and you guys should just stay at home and make them :)
 
Greg_L said:
I'm guessing your brother is the only drummer you guys could find and he hasn't yet learned how to tune a drum or play in time.
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I'm that brother in my band. But I get on with it, I can do rimshots now!
 
I listened to the songs...I liked them...

though lose the arsholes haircut, and the youtube clips are droll and make you out to look like prats..also you must be fucking toffs if you're from Newcastle and sound like that..the image does not match the music methinks

other than that the songs are great...yup there's a bit of muse in there..but so what, they've stopped playing guitars by the sound of their last album so maybe there's a gap in that market

good luck
 
cuthroat said:
Some time ago, the tenor saxophonist Frank Foster was playing a street concert from the Jazzmobile in Harlem. He called for a blues in B-flat. A young tenor player began to play “out” from the first chorus, playing sounds that had no relationship to the harmonic progression or rhythmic setting. Foster stopped him. “What are you doing?” “Just playing what I feel.” “Well, feel something in B-flat, motherfucker.”
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In Harlem, even the boxing club teaches music theory..... if you dont' C# you'll Bb.
 
Originally Posted by cuthroat
Some time ago, the tenor saxophonist Frank Foster was playing a street concert from the Jazzmobile in Harlem. He called for a blues in B-flat. A young tenor player began to play “out” from the first chorus, playing sounds that had no relationship to the harmonic progression or rhythmic setting. Foster stopped him. “What are you doing?” “Just playing what I feel.” “Well, feel something in B-flat, motherfucker.”

oh that's funny!

:D
 
i knew it would happen!

muttley600 said:
Absolutely, and as a current qualified cricket and rugby coach coaching kids from 8 -18, I can pretty much say with confidence that if I selected kids purely on their natural hand to eye or speed or strength, I would soon have my coaching badges rescinded. To be honest I'd rather have a team full of try hards than a team full of preening jocks. When you do come across exceptionally talented kids you send them up the coaching chain in any case.

Music is the same as sport in one regard and that is at a basic level it should be open access to all and not skill or ability dependant. Any teacher who sends a kid off because they can't tap their foot in time is not a teacher. A teachers job in those environment is to maximise whatever ability the student has and also to maximise their enjoyment.

Nuff said.
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well, here it comes! another non musical person trying to compare athletic ability to musical talent. there is no relationship! yes you can develop athletic prowess through constant practice but it's not apples to apples! a truly talented musician may practice daily but his timing and conception were there before he ever picked up his instrument! he (or she) was born to play music! accept it!
 
Terry Wetzel said:
well, here it comes! another non musical person trying to compare athletic ability to musical talent. there is no relationship! yes you can develop athletic prowess through constant practice but it's not apples to apples! a truly talented musician may practice daily but his timing and conception were there before he ever picked up his instrument! he (or she) was born to play music! accept it!
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Talent with no practice amounts to nothing. Practice without talent on the other hand can make you pretty freaking good.
 
Terry Wetzel said:
well, here it comes! another non musical person trying to compare athletic ability to musical talent. there is no relationship! yes you can develop athletic prowess through constant practice but it's not apples to apples! a truly talented musician may practice daily but his timing and conception were there before he ever picked up his instrument! he (or she) was born to play music! accept it!
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You sir are a cock. Apart from that there isn't a verifiable true statement in any of that supercilious tripe you have posted. Thankfully, there are many facts in the statement of mine you quote.

I wasn't comparing musical ability with sporting ability. To correct you,No, constant practice will not instil athletic prowess. Also I did no suggest or imply that teaching could do so in either case. As with music, if the natural talent is not there to begin with you can not substitute it with practice.

From a teaching perspective the presence of either musical talent or sporting talent is not and never has been a bar to accessing coaching or teaching. How do I know this? Well I'm a a sports coach and teach music theory and musical acoustics.

Once again you are a cock, and an ignorant one at that.
 
Yonce N Mild said:
Talent with no practice amounts to nothing. Practice without talent on the other hand can make you pretty freaking good.
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I don't believe this for one second.



Thread: How important are scales and theory in your guitar playing?

You don't have to touch a guitar to learn theory or scales, really.
 
cephus said:
I don't believe this for one second.



Thread: How important are scales and theory in your guitar playing?

You don't have to touch a guitar to learn theory or scales, really.
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Believe what? That someone who has a natural talent for music won't be any good if they don't practice? Or that someone who doesn't have a natural knack for music can be a good musician if they study and practice hard enough?
 
I'm quite sure that the very first dude, to invent the very first guitar...did not immediately start running scales.
 
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