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Speed and good are not synonymous


Jerry NT

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Don't know why, but I was looking at Guitar Jam for too long. I guess so many kids are on the site thinking that some guitarist is the greatest because he is the fastest.

If you play the same thing over and over and over you can do it faster and faster and faster. It doesn't mean that you're good.

Not that being fast is bad. And doing something over and over is called practice. And I like to show off with speed every once and awhile. But where is the nuance, where is the variety?

Learning many different songs and many different styles is also difficult. Playing chords instead of scale after scale can be difficult. But more importantly, it sounds better if you add variety. Your music is better.

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Originally posted by Jerry NT

:o

Okay, fast and good? Speed and quality? Hyper kinetic and (rats, where's my thesaurus when I need it?).



... ample excellence?

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Originally posted by Little Dreamer

If you wanna get technical about it, slow
is
synonymous with dull. It's says so in my thesaurus
:D



True, and slow doesn't mean good either. But TOO fast can mean that there is no room for expression or improvisation. In fact, a medium paced song (or even a slow song) can have super fast scales and arpeggios thrown in just the right places.
I have heard super fast songs that actually seem to have lost the melody.

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Originally posted by Little Dreamer

If you wanna get technical about it, slow
is
synonymous with dull. It's says so in my thesaurus
:D



I guess dull things leave impressions when they hit something ;)

(ok, not my strongest pun ever, so sue me)

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