Post by patril0mic on Jan 12, 2009 23:02:11 GMT -5
now so many hardcore bands are using arps and stuff in their music (don't get me wrong, I like SOME of those bands that are coming out now) but still, a lot of it is sounding the same which was the problem with that style of music for so many years.
Most people don't recognize how difficult some things are on guitar. Everyone's stuck on sweeps, for some reason. Public opinion is that it's the craziest, hardest thing possible on guitar. A 3 note sweep at 150bpm trumps alt picking 16ths at 180, apparently.
Some kid that goes to school with my brother is getting a lot of recognition, and has a serious ego problem, because he plays three note sweeps horribly. Crappy tone/phrasing, missed notes, sloppy as hell, no sense of rhythm.
My brother plays a bit faster,and way cleaner, but he doesn't sweep much, so that automatically makes him a lesser, 'slower' guitarist.
I'm worried about a backlash like the early 90's. I'm seeing all these generic bands, using generic note sequences, purely for the flash value, and I'm thinking "No! Your ruining it!". It's like they don't see technique as a means to an end, but as an end in itself.
Something like grunge is going to come along, and make good technique 'uncool', at the rate things are going.
Many people in the guitar world are just going to say "screw it" and not care about technique as much, which is okay, but I'm worried that anything 'technical', no matter how well it serves the song, could be a hard sell.
Some have abused their fancy tools. Will Steve Vai, or Mattias Eklundh become 'uncool' simply because they have a wicked set of tools?
like I said, very few of these bands meet my approval, and they're the FEW that have good writing as well as technique. and I'm scared the whole "no technique" thing is already been starting - MyChem