surfpup Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Yes? No? Maybe? Discuss... (Make sure you get to the cover of Spanish Castle Magic at around 2:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Booqlpd2G4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanH Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Blues is all about feeling and I didn't get much sense of that. While technically very good, Yngwie was shredding the blues scale over a backing track without apparently keeping with that track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I always thought Yngwie gets too much sh!t. I don't listen to him much. (his songs do have a tendency of sounding the same.) But he is a phenomenal guitar player. but I prefer Jason Becker for my neoclassical needs. as for the video, I'm watching it right now and am thoroughly enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 ... Yngwie was shredding the blues scale over a backing track without apparently keeping with that track. You didn't get to the Spanish Castle Magic which was live did you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I just want to know how blues players have so much soul if they sell theirs to the devil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I did make it to 4 minutes 10 seconds. Ingvay J. Crackin up guitar players for what? 4 decades now at least. A physical master of the instrument though. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Sorry, but YUCK. I don't like his playing, his tone, or his style. Too many fast note runs when they are completely unnecessary. It's pounding in tacks with a sledge hammer. He should resolve to be a shredder and not try to do music with singing. And, yes, he could play circles around me with just his pinky finger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I just want to know how blues players have so much soul if they sell theirs to the devil. It's because they gots the devil in them. The devil doesn't take full possession until they die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I heard 3 seconds of it and knew I was going to hate it. . For the sake of argument, you could call it blues. It sucks canal water though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc3c46 Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Blues is all about feeling and I didn't get much sense of that. While technically very good, Yngwie was shredding the blues scale over a backing track without apparently keeping with that track. + 1 B.B. King once told to someone( Iforhot to who) : " Play less notes ..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Yes he plays the blues, you can tell from the cigarette stuck in the headstock... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 + 1 B.B. King once told to someone( Iforhot to who) : " Play less notes ..." That might have been to Gary Moore... Forgive me Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 On the whole speed side I think that it really has to do with the feelings you evoke, if a song calls for slow bluesy playing, don't throw a shredding solo in there, likewise if a song calls for a shredding solo, it is equally bad to put a slow bluesy solo in. Paganini, the violin virtuoso and composer was extremely technically proficient, but I don't recall him ever being referred to as a soulless wanker by music fans. Notes themselves don't have souls, people do, it's the way the notes make you feel, not the notes themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 I heard 3 seconds of it and knew I was going to hate it. . Be honest; you knew you would hate it before the first second. Mind closed = ears closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanH Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 You didn't get to the Spanish Castle Magic which was live did you? You're right, I didn't make it that far. I do actually own an early Yngwie album - Trilogy and I admire him for his classical style playing. However, although I haven't heard many, this is my favourite track he features in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5_CqMGsE7E Edit: OK, I got through the Spanish Castle Magic this time. I'm not so sure it's blues though. I would say it's more Penatonic hard rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Be honest; you knew you would hate it before the first second. Mind closed = ears closed. I listen to Elmore James and like it.... lots..... He played an acoustic with a pickup and it sounds fantastic.. All I needed was to hear one super ultra over driven note to know I wasn't going to like the clip. The same reason I hate Gary Moore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57classic Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 + 1 B.B. King once told to someone( Iforhot to who) : " Play less notes ..." A live video I saw had Albert King saying it to Gary Moore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 A live video I saw had Albert King saying it to Gary Moore No offense to Albert, as he's one of the blues greats and certainly is a favorite of mine, but he couldn't keep with Gary! Hardly anyone could hold their fire against Gary.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 This version is "bluesier" then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslSvOKe5Eo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57classic Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 No offense to Albert, as he's one of the blues greats and certainly is a favorite of mine, but he couldn't keep with Gary! Hardly anyone could hold their fire against Gary.... I'm a Gary Moore fan but Albert's thing wasn't about keeping up with Gary or anyone else. I appreciate Gary's fire and skill but if you look at a video of Stevie Ray Vaughn, who could "keep up" with anyone, play with Albert or BB he played in in a style that was more compatible with the 2 Kings. Sure, he was deferring to them out of respect for what groundwork they laid for the rest of us. I don't think Gary was being disrespectful but he couldn't contain his enthusiasm very well. There are times when less is more. The space between the notes can say as much as the notes themselves. That's the lesson Albert was trying to teach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanH Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 This boy knows how to shred the blues and feel the music at the same time -solo (and strip ) starts at about 2:50.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0tG5nl0aQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 Heavy progressive blues. I thought it passed for blues. Although not a fan, I respect his guitar playing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylw36Q2k0NI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 In the interest of full disclosure, I knew I was going to like it before I clicked play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 I didn't think I was going to like it and ended up liking it. He does slow it down to 32nd note triplets. And the triplet stuff makes kinda an interesting type of "swing" against a shuffle...who would have thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 The really bad note he hit made it sound authentic.......Maybe he did that on purpose...... :blink: .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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