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Crow
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Joined: Nov 11, 2009
Topics: 30 / Replies: 519
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Re: Ear vs Eyes

Crow, I don't doubt that the medium is capable of producing great works. But the composers you mention are hardly non-readers: Stockhausen was traine...

11 years ago
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Re: Ear vs Eyes

Seems to me there is no reason an "electronic" composer, presumably a non-reader, couldn't create a major work with the complexity, subtlety and sheer...

11 years ago
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Re: Ear vs Eyes

well, noteboat, you picked out a relatively specific subset of musicians. That's what we're all doing... ...but when it comes down to my reality... ...

11 years ago
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Re: The difference between a guitar player and a musician.

So maybe someone doesn't know which note they are playing at a specific moment...... I actually can still do that and I know the know how of which not...

11 years ago
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Re: The difference between a guitar player and a musician.

Lets just say though that some delta blues man didn't know how to read write, or even know what "Ab" meant - just because he didn't know that he could...

11 years ago
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Re: The difference between a guitar player and a musician.

Lets not forget speedy passages in classical music which I'm sure ALL of the people objecting to shredding here accept. We "accept" stuff in context....

11 years ago
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Re: The difference between a guitar player and a musician.

A jazz saxophonist plays a flurry of notes and its called bebop (sometimes even art)A guitarist plays a flurry of notes and its called showing off (so...

11 years ago
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Re: New Guitar

What a great find! Got pics?

11 years ago
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Re: Help needed! Which guitar is this?? Custom Gibson??

Sorry, let me try this again....SOUND and FEEL are all that really matter musically. As Frank Zappa said, if you pick up the instrument and it says, ...

11 years ago
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Re: Help needed! Which guitar is this?? Custom Gibson??

Could be any one of a bunch; but don't buy on looks, buy on sound and feel. This is not an answer to the question and besides , if I'm buying a guitar...

11 years ago
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Re: The difference between a guitar player and a musician.

"Work" is a loaded word. For me, "work" in a musical sense means we have stuff we have to do, as a group, at some kind of basic level of competence, ...

11 years ago
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Re: The difference between a guitar player and a musician.

You got a private message, Do, you witty rascal.

11 years ago
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Re: Finally getting a tube amp

Little, ancient, 5-watt fake Champs are absolutely killer. There are tons of them out there by all kinds of companies. Nothing to 'em -- three tubes...

11 years ago
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Re: Choosing Rhythm

Just to make this more interesting... let's separate "rhythm" from "time." Just because you can keep 16th notes going at a consistent pace doesn't ma...

11 years ago
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Re: The difference between a guitar player and a musician.

(I have the flu and mixed meds with Rum) You, sir or ma'am, are my kind of guy. :D The value of knowing a few things about music other than just ho...

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