Help with Ledbetter Solo

Pearl Jam and toast

lucylespian wrote:

Sure, at a CERTAIN POINT, but the original poster is certainly nowhere that point. Nor am I, though I am getting close.
I'm not advocating technicality over "style" or "soul" or "feel" by any means, but you have to have technique.
Everyone always comes back to Neil Young, but look back thrugh the guys catalogue and it's easy to hear that he has chops to burn, and he can improv like crazy now for several reasons.
The first and main one is that the guy has been a professional musician for several decades, and if he doesn't know his way around the fretboard by now, he must be seriously brain-damaged.
Further, he is a naturally talented musician, in a way that most of us aren't. It's not fair or sensible to expect the average guy to have the same musical sensibilities as one of the handful of gods we worship, esp the ones with perfect pitch !!!!!
Those gods of course, tend to have a bag of lick they fall back on, which are learnt patterns, not divine inspirations. Some palyers are worse than others for falling back there all teh tiem, Clapton comes to mind.

And ironically, STickman sems to be enjoying the note-for-note approach. I'm sure at some stage he'll feel inclined to add something of his own to it, and when he does, he'll be able to. Expecting him to come up with something now is just crazy !!
Funny thing about solos, they always seem to be going out of fashion, then coming back in again. I don't think they ever really go too far, just that there isn't always someone there with something fresh to say, cos that's really hard. So, if you can't solo, ya just say, "solos aren't cool".

lols. A bunch of arrogant punk rockers who can't play lead worth a shit say that maybe? Those people always make me laugh.

I agree with what you said too, I think we're saying essentially the same thing just in different words.