Re: Re-training yourself

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:15:10 GMT, Tony Done wrote:

"Monster Zero" <rockindog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I learned guitar about as wrong as it could be done and of course I got
really good at wrong. I must say though that it's been fun in a way
re-training myself and to try and change my attitude and appraoch to
guitar. I hid behind gobs of distortion for years and years and the only
time I ever played clean was when I was forced to play clean. Don't get me
wrong I still use gobs of distortion with my original stuff and when it's
actually called for and I really love music that calls for it, but I've
really fallen in love with that point you get to where it breaks up nicely
and you can tame it with the guitar knobs. The tubes are breathing hot and
heavy and the touch response gets out of this world. Shit I'm getting
goosebumps just typing it.

For so long I thought a lot of the big rock players used tons of
distortion in their rigs but through research I've found this to be a
fallacy of ginormous proportions. I know I'm preaching to the choir with
many of you more intelligent and more skilled players but man I sometimes
kick myself about how long I just turned on the buzzsaw for everything I
played.

It's been a work in progress to learn to play without the "heavy"
distortion safety net but man is it rewarding when it just sounds so open
and dynamic but yet fierce when you want it to be. I love it when you find
that sweet spot that allows you to go from Brutal to mellow with the twist
of the guitar knob.


Interesting discussion. I'm going the other way - trying to deal with a
highly compressed distorted sound after about half a century of (clean)
acoustic playing. Try to suppress all those noises you don't want isn't
easy.


this is like the discussions you get talking to some crazy snob acoustic
guitarists or even worse, the jazz-holers, and then you bring up something
like AC/DC. Man, they slam it as being easier than child's play and then
you give them a LOUD guitar, with the gain up pretty good, and tell them,
if its so easy, lets hear you do it. And they suck. They sound like shit.
They never learned how to control the partnership of an electric guitar and
loud amp. I've witnessed this on several occasions.


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