Re: Which way towards guitar competence?

> A purely scientific approach will create a 'technical' guitartist
> without any real 'feel".

An approach that seeks the truth will create a `technical` guitarist
without the `feel`. If this is true, then tell me what the people who
have the `feel` are figuring out. Surely it's nothing about the truth,
otherwise that would be science and that would create a technical
guitarist. And we can't have that.

> Listen for how he
> (or she !) interacts with the rhythm section, decides when to
> improvise, and jam as compared to playing the root and
> following the original arrangement.

Agreed. This doesn't promote your assertion that you start off with,
though.
(If I look closer I will probably see a topic switch somewhere.)

> > > Learning guitar is in many respects about recognising patterns of sounds.
> > Yes. Surely there is some particular approach to learning how to
> > recognize patterns of sounds other than randomly exposing myself to
> > them.
> Here there's no substitute for time in the saddle.

Agreed. This doesn't explain why some people are intent here on the
random exposure versus the systematic exposure. Something rather
important; and I can not tell which you are trying to suggest to me.

> When you get to the point of not having to
> think about technique (the "science")

Woah, hold on. Is that where we are miscommunicating? We as in I and
everybody else. The 'science' is 'technique'? That's a large
generalization, it's cutting quite a lot out of the whole picture.

> Art does not HAVE to be approached in a scientific manner.
> It may help in many cases but it can also get in the way.

Heh. If science is the systematic approach to gathering knowledge, then
what is it getting the way of in that case?

Thank you; I think we took a step here that has resulted in some more
clearly stated discussion pieces here.

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