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I saw a post today asking for EQ settings for a Boss GE7. I mean, REALLY?
Have we now gotten to a point where it's quicker to ask for settings, or where to place a pedal, or what pedal to get via typing a post and then trawling through loads of conflicting answers to try and find the answer that we've been searching for via proxy?
What happened to using our ears?
Why are we confining instruments of creativity to a commoditised viewpoint via concensus?
As an e.g. close to my heart, Gilmour would never have made Echoes if he'd not plugged his wah in wrong. These days, he'd have stopped writing and playing, reached for his Mac and posted a HELP! post.
Similarly, Chorus and flange wouldn't have been invented if someone hadn't stuck their fingers on a tape reel- these days a Health and Safety law suit would be the result, not a song.
No wonder music is becoming the same if we as players commoditise our creativity to the opinion of social media.
Let's use our ears.
Rant over.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
....also being creative ala gilmour/hendrix vs trying to copy a sound are two different skills
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
http://www.gilmourish.com/?p=256
Almost everything I post music / gear related is done in a position of not having gear around, usual whilst doing something tedious. So I'd rather post a question, get some ideas, go home try it, as well as do my own thing.
Then there's other things like Eagles solos and some people expect you to learn them off the record. If it's that much of a set piece (with an Eagles song it certainly is, whether or not they wrote it down before recording it), then it shouldn't be too much to ask to see it written down.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
As if nobody ever asked these questions to their peers, or guitar teacher in the past.
What's changed is we can see everyone asking everyone else, that's all.
The less you rely on reading the better, unless the goal is for every one to read (like an orchestra) and play exactly what's written with no deviation. Learning by ear gives you so much more awareness of the whole band. I'm convinced it accelerates all round musical development far more than reading a tab / notes ever does. The one caveat to that is when you can't work it out - then it's good to have the notes, to see what you missed or couldn't get.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
That deserves three fret points, one in each category. I clicked on each, but it got stuck on a Wis.
There are too many tools around these days (in more than the obvious sense of the word).