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Shredworthy solos
nescience:
Still. PUSSIES.
Bastardous Bassist:
I would also like to point out another advantage with learning to solo in odd meters. You get to work on cool new rhythmic ideas. In 4/4, one can get stuck in a rhythmic rut. I know I have been. By doing tunes in a different meter, it forces one to work on different ideas and think about one's rhythmic content. Which helps to some degree to get one out of any ruts one might have been stuck in with 4/4. Learning to solo in 7/4 has helped some, plusI know over the summer I'm definitely working on some polyrhythm exercises that my combo director gave me.
Misereatur:
Yeah, I was going to say that learning to play in odd time sig's could set the basics for polyrhythmic playing. Which is terribly hard to pull off.
The Thrill:
--- Quote from: beat mouse --- unfortunately kids these days don't know who Deep Purple are. truly a sad sad day :(
--- End quote ---
Hey I'm only 18 and I know who Deep Purple is, Ritchie Blackmore is my lord and master for all time. Mk II was the greatest band to ever exist, Machine Head, Made in Japan and the 1972 live Copenhagen DVD are some of the most incredible musical pieces of history you will ever find. No guitar player has influenced me as much as Blackmore, I had started to stagnate in my playing until I picked up a copy of Machine Head, I learned from that to use scales all across the neck and that the whammy bar needs some love every once in awhile.
Pretty much any solo by Blackmore is bound to be brilliant, but to specify I'm going to say the guitar solo in Never Before is goddamned incredible. Unfortunately it is utterly outshined by Jon Lords' piano solo at the end, the most awesome keyboardist in the universe.
So, Never Before from Deep Purple, guitar and keyboard
Midnight by Joe Satriani (well anything from him, but I just love good tapping, let's face it: Van Halen was horrible at it)
The shredding at the start of "Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?" from Zappa
The bass solo from "I'm the Hell Outta Here" from Steve Vai (Billy Sheehan plays bass better than most people play guitar)
Comfortably Numb, from Floyd solely on merit of incredible tone
EDIT: Dammit I just can't keep myself from saying it. Page wasn't that good. He was incredibly sloppy and was usually too drunk to figure out what he was doing wrong. Fairly decent tone though. I just don't like people talking about him like he was some god.
E. Spaceman:
I don't think people praise Page that much for his soloing, rather they praise his riffs. In my opinion riff > solo everytime.
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