I agree. Today we need more musicians to do there own thing, to find a style they like to play. I think this goes for all musicians too, not just guitar players.

Thanks for the post!
 

"and many others whose music matters."


hah! Very well put, man.


Kudos!
 

well having never taken lessons and knowing relatively nothing about musical theory other than what i've picked up by watching bucket and eddie.. that's pretty much what i have to do anyhow. i hope my music takes me places someday
 

last i knew, the whole logic behind jazz (if there really is), is to not follow a "formula" or "standard" but to instead be adventurous & break new ground. sounds like that jazz guitar teacher is just a hack trying to make a quick buck!
 

Those words are the cornerstone of my beliefs as a musician. Thank you so much for that..

-Psycho Bill
 

A while back i would worry about what people thought of my music but
i came to realize hey, it's me....and i like me.
 

Yes, nicely worded. And people should do that. I mean, it's good to have idols, but you gotta have your originality. Preach on!!!! Peace.
 

The journey inward...YES! Very well said Jas! Great advice for every artist and beyond!

Love this quote:
"If you find your truth, you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or in a slaughterhouse; you might find it dangling somewhere. People might say, "What the heck are you doing?" But it's OK if they don't understand. And if you follow it, stay true to it, and respect it, you could be in store for the greatest journey you could ever imagine." - Buckethead

Imitation is a form of flattery...finding the who that is you, fine tuned, IS the greatest accomplishment! BIG HUGZ! :) ZQ
 

"Jimi was a guitarist of a different time. Today, everyone's a technician, studying scales and using all the latest gear and effects, playing 32nd and 64th notes as if they were paid by the number of black dots on the page. People didn't play like that in the 60's early 70's because sweep-picking and tapping weren't around. Certainly, the equipment and players were capable of doing it, but Hendrix was already breaking ground just with his sounds and length of solos. I'm not even sure he would have used the techniques if they were available; Jimi was NOT a technician - he played from his soul - what he felt, which I feel is lacking from a lot of these more technically advanced players. They get so concerned with throwing every trick they know and every note possible they forget to communicate. BH is one of the rare ones who utilizes great technique TO communicate at a higher level, rather than instead of communicating. But Jimi was a great communicator as well, and no slouch himself in the chops dept.. So it all depends on how you define "talent" and what you value more. More notes doesn't mean more talent - often it means the opposite, because the player couldn't improvise a melody to save their soul, so they play a billion notes to cover it up.
And it has to do with sounding like or creating something that no one has seen before. Like Eddie's Eruption. No one sounded like Hendrix before Hendrix. He thought of new ways of expressing yourself on the guitar. Ask any player, developing you're own "sound" is one of the hardest things to do. It's easy to practice what someone has already done and try to do it one step better. Look at all the SRV clones - but Stevie had his own sound, which owed a debt to Hendrix. It's about being inventive and creative. Bucket is DEFINITELY in the same catagory because no one sounds like him. I'm not arguing about who's talented or not. You just said you didn't understand why Jimi was so influential. Listen to some guitar oriented cds pre-Jimi, then listen to some a few years after he made it big. It was like every guitar player on Earth went, "WTF? Oh shit! I get it now! Can I play like that?" then everyone did their own spin on it, but Jimi was unique enough, no one really sounded like him, whereas if you were to use the octave pedal or do 4 finger tapping everyone would scream, "Bucket clone!" BH has his own take on the idea which is miles away from what anyone else is doing now, but who made it o.k. to go so far "outside" the song? Jimi." -rschuch @ .tk
 

ah yes finally, I have been trying to do my own style for years. You hit the mark when you said this. I set out to learn something different and I found myself copying buckethead, I had learned his nub tapping technique, and I finally said to myself this is great and all but now I'm some kind of a poser. So I set out to find what was "me". I have to put soul into each and every note, every bend, and every hammer on/pull off, untill one day when I'm playing at guitar center or something and somebody just says woa,...what was that? I want to accomplish somthing compleatly awsome and different.