Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
I have this thing where dial in overdrive/distortion poorly and then play jazz vamps. Otherwise I sound like Jeff Buckley on a bad day.
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
I should fucking hope so, or there is no point to my doing it.
I should fucking hope so, or there is no point to my doing it.
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
Whoa, blast from the past!Ears wrote:Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
I should fucking hope so, or there is no point to my doing it.
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
same attitude toslash-ed wrote:
Whoa, blast from the past!
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
No one can play drums 'quite like me' ...
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
when I start playing I instantly know its me
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
Playing like a bluesman, when having never listened, learned or had anything to do with blues.
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
Same attitude too.willow13 wrote: same attitude to
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
I don't have anything unique that you can pick out and say, that's ben, but I do sound like me.
mostly what I do on electric come straight from acoustic guitar playing. So I big up chords, and dynamics and neck vibrato, and fingerpicking, but all on electric guitar, which is i guess a bit differnent from the many guys who use light strings and a normal pick, etc, etc.
mostly what I do on electric come straight from acoustic guitar playing. So I big up chords, and dynamics and neck vibrato, and fingerpicking, but all on electric guitar, which is i guess a bit differnent from the many guys who use light strings and a normal pick, etc, etc.
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
You can't really call that your own.Olderama wrote:I plug in
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
Haven’t read through this thread yet but yep, definitely have a few runs/licks that if you were listening to them you probably wouldn’t relate them to anything or anyone. They were a ‘happy accident’, trying to nail a lick and getting notes wrong in the process which I ultimately kept and reworked into my own thing.
Still sounds shit but at least it’s mine.
Still sounds shit but at least it’s mine.
Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
I guess this is all in the context of what Molly is trying to say, but most of the guys that I admire I can’t trace much (if anything) of their playing back to their influences. Examples...
Brian May always references Hank Marvin and Rory Gallagher as being huge influences... well penetrate me backwards but I struggle to hear either of those in his playing. Everything he plays sounds original
Steve Vai, numerous cited influences but he manages to sound like himself with no real perceivable nod to anyone. Oh and screw his circular vibrato too
Nuno, oh where to start. Well occasionally I think I hear a bit of Brian May type phrasing, but again all of his licks and playing seem to be completely his own
And finally... Hendrix. Where the holy mackerel did he come from. Can’t say I hear much T Bone Walker or anyone else when I listen to his music. I have wondered whether he would have sounded the same had Marshall not been around when he was.
I will get down from my soapbox now.
Brian May always references Hank Marvin and Rory Gallagher as being huge influences... well penetrate me backwards but I struggle to hear either of those in his playing. Everything he plays sounds original
Steve Vai, numerous cited influences but he manages to sound like himself with no real perceivable nod to anyone. Oh and screw his circular vibrato too
Nuno, oh where to start. Well occasionally I think I hear a bit of Brian May type phrasing, but again all of his licks and playing seem to be completely his own
And finally... Hendrix. Where the holy mackerel did he come from. Can’t say I hear much T Bone Walker or anyone else when I listen to his music. I have wondered whether he would have sounded the same had Marshall not been around when he was.
I will get down from my soapbox now.
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Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?
The gear I bang away on.
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