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I Am Convinced That Guitarist Eric Johnson Sold His Soul To The Devil

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agrajag said:
Of course that's tone, your tone comes from your fingers, first and foremost.
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Yes so no one will scallop to enhance their tone so to speak, the need to scallop comes from a better control over the string, without the wood in the way. A difference in tone would be the consequence of that, not the outset.
 
I would rather sell my soul to be a good songwriter than an amazing guitarist. I respect the virtuosity of him and those other guitarists, but listening to straight guitar solos for entire songs gets really old after awhile. Not enough substance behind the music to make it worth listening to for me.
 
plasmawave said:
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lol I was thinking more on the lines of:

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I really enjoyed that video. Makes me wish I had some type of musical talent.
 
EJ is great, but I'm going with Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci. It's a close call for who is favorite.

Here's a great JP video, definitely worth watching.

Dream Theater Instrumedley PETRUCCI ONLY

As for scalloped fretboards, it's just a preference. There is nothing that can be done on a scalloped fretboard, that can't also be done on a normal fretboard, and vice versa.
 
Pilgor said:
EJ is great, but I'm going with Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci. It's a close call for who is favorite.

Here's a great JP video, definitely worth watching.

Dream Theater Instrumedley PETRUCCI ONLY

As for scalloped fretboards, it's just a preference. There is nothing that can be done on a scalloped fretboard, that can't also be done on a normal fretboard, and vice versa.
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It's so weird watching John Petrucci play. He's a robot, a fucking shredding machine.
 
ComputerMKII said:
No love for Paul Gilbert? :(
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Paul Gilbert probably ranks no 1 in the inspiration for me in practicing guitar. He shreds, but he also does really melodic and bluesy stuff.

I also really like it when he explains how he approach certain technique, his instructional videos are really fun.
 
teruterubozu said:
He's not really a pure blues guitarist, dude is a shredder. In fact, EJ headlines a lot of the same shows as Vai/Satriani/Malmsteen like the long-running G3 Tour. It's basically the same audience.

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Same audience, but he definitely does a different style of music. A lot more new-age, melodic and jazzy.

My personal favourite of his is "Manhattan". Quite relaxing.
 
Guthrie Govan shits on everyone from great heights at the moment. Seen him twice, just magic.

Also met him briefly. Such a nice person.
 
These guys just don't do it for me. It's nice and all, and i can appreciate it on some technical level. But i can't appreciate it on a musical level.
Same with Vai and the other dudes. I watch it and think: yeah... Sooo? What the fuck do you want to tell me with all those unrelated tones and weird techniques. Do they serve any purpose asside of showing us you can pull them off?
 
Buckethead... (in terms of using guitar for a lot of tonal structure, etc)

But yea Eric Johnson is fantastic, the first few minutes of Cliffs of Dover are beautiful.
 
It's a fun song that's super impressive but it's cheesy as all hell.
 
Always-honest said:
These guys just don't do it for me. It's nice and all, and i can appreciate it on some technical level. But i can't appreciate it on a musical level.
Same with Vai and the other dudes. I watch it and think: yeah... Sooo? What the fuck do you want to tell me with all those unrelated tones and weird techniques. Do they serve any purpose asside of showing us you can pull them off?
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Does a rainbow need to explain itself? Why's bannana's curved? How do tides go in and out? There are only two stances on jerking off on guitar. Those who can and get it, and those who cant and dont.
 
Gr1mLock said:
Does a rainbow need to explain itself? Why's bannana's curved? How do tides go in and out? There are only two stances on jerking off on guitar. Those who can and get it, and those who cant and dont.
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I can, just not on these guys styles ;p.
It's so deprived of any musical quality. Or at least, music i feel anything with.

I play guitar myself and while i don't have 1 % of the technical qualities, i never think "wow, i wish i could play like them".
To each their own.
 
Always-honest said:
I can, just not on these guys styles ;p.
It's so deprived of any musical quality. Or at least, music i feel anything with.
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I used to love this shit as a kid, but yeah I pretty much grew out of it. Today I like mellow guys like Andy Summers and Jeff Beck. But I still enjoy shredder stuff but in a more novel kind of way, like watching someone expertly dice vegetables. It had its time and place in the 80s, but beyond that I can't believe people are still sweeping and running up and down harmonic minor scales - it is kinda dated.
 
Always-honest said:
I can, just not on these guys styles ;p.
It's so deprived of any musical quality. Or at least, music i feel anything with.

I play guitar myself and while i don't have 1 % of the technical qualities, i never think "wow, i wish i could play like them".
To each their own.
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I saw him last time he was in the UK. What always impresses me about Johnson is that his playing seems to have much more feeling to it than some of the other shredders.
 
teruterubozu said:
I used to love this shit as a kid, but yeah I pretty much grew out of it. Today I like mellow guys like Andy Summers and Jeff Beck. But I still enjoy shredder stuff but in a more novel kind of way, like watching someone expertly dice vegetables. It had its time and place in the 80s, but beyond that I can't believe people are still sweeping and running up and down harmonic minor scales - it is kinda dated.
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It did have it's time and place.

I respect shredders for their technical skills, but I drew the line before anyone could say Yngwie J. Malmsteen within earshot, just can't seem to enjoy his neo classical playing ever. We watch his instructional and thos bootleg videos back then mainly to mock him.

Vai is the absolute craziest limit I set in terms of fret burning, worshipped his Passion & Warfare album when I was a kid. Then I heard and saw Marty in Megadeth, he's using sweeps and not making them sound like boiling farts! I said to myself back then "This IS the guy!"
 
TheWraith said:
Yes so no one will scallop to enhance their tone so to speak, the need to scallop comes from a better control over the string, without the wood in the way. A difference in tone would be the consequence of that, not the outset.
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It's the goal. Better control of the instrument, better vibrato = better tone. Comes with a learning curve though. My buddy scalloped my squire strat for me (my first guitar :P)
 
deim0s said:
It did have it's time and place.

I respect shredders for their technical skills, but I drew the line before anyone could say Yngwie J. Malmsteen within earshot, just can't seem to enjoy his neo classical playing ever. We watch his instructional and thos bootleg videos back then mainly to mock him.

Vai is the absolute craziest limit I set in terms of fret burning, worshipped his Passion & Warfare album when I was a kid. Then I heard and saw Marty in Megadeth, he's using sweeps and not making them sound like boiling farts! I said to myself back then "This IS the guy!"
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I kind of grew out of the solo artist shredder thing a while back as well, but I do think these guys had a major impact on today's metal guitarists. The level of musicianship in the various subgenres of metal nowadays is insanely high and a large reason for that is cuz many of these guitarists grew up learning Vai and Gilbert and whatnot. These shredders raised the bar and metal guitarists, in their endless effort to play faster and heavier than everybody else, have definitely kept some of the shred spirit alive, just put into a more typical band format.
 
Seanspeed said:
I kind of grew out of the solo artist shredder thing a while back as well, but I do think these guys had a major impact on today's metal guitarists. The level of musicianship in the various subgenres of metal nowadays is insanely high and a large reason for that is cuz many of these guitarists grew up learning Vai and Gilbert and whatnot. These shredders raised the bar and metal guitarists, in their endless effort to play faster and heavier than everybody else, have definitely kept some of the shred spirit alive, just put into a more typical band format.
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Yeah today's metal is insanely technical with crazy levels of musicianship, but I think it's also hit a wall in terms of innovation. Metal is kinda like jazz and classical music now - it's not the pioneering genre it used to be, but it has solidified itself as a respectable medium for superior musicianship and it'll be around for a long time. It's almost scholastic now. I mean hell, there are heavy metal shredder institutes like MI and Berklee creating the metalheads of tomorrow.
 
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