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Really many guitar players are jerk offs. The only competition is between you and your instrument. As a musician you are to play along with others.

PLAY ALONG, NOT COMPETE!

that is my biggest beef with “guitar players” they are inferiority complex laden, talk a good line of BS even when they don’t know and forget that guitar is about music and not about guitar playing.

Take some of these shredder types as an example. I’m blown away by the physical power, my hat is off to them. But after the technical shock is over and after listening for about 2 or 3 songs the whole thing becomes empty, there is little music there. They have my deep respect. We are bound together by the same instrument.

My love for wood and steel continues to grow and the music being created by some of those players. I’ve been at the guitar for many years and I’m not foggy in “new love” with the instrument, so I think I can say. They seem more in touch with music even in many cases if they have great technical and physical power. They seem more in control, more about the spaces between the notes than how many notes, more about how long notes last.

I watched a G3 video the other night with my son. Again, he is only 9. He was questioning “how do they get that sound?”, but he drops out as soon as me musically shortly after. There could be other reasons for that but I hope he needs greater musical stimulation they the average Joe blow. I pray it is because he needs music with his fireworks and not just firework playing. Because that tells me something about his mind.

Do you guys out there understand what I’m saying? I hope he needs music with his firework. I hope that when there is silence, when there is no sound, when there is emptiness, he appreciates what that sounds like.

For it is no sound that defines sound, and when you don’t hear the “no sound” you are only hearing “half a music” and when you create music without “no sound” you really don’t create a “whole music” so to speak.