Trey=the best around?

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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    i need to start taking lessons. :(
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    exhausted wrote:
    i need to start taking lessons. :(


    I started back in Oct/Nov of last year and I gotta tell ya...it's the best thing I could have done. I can't even begin to tell you how much I have soaked in so far.
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    i'm guessing one on one lessons?

    i'm trying to get up the courage to do it but i'm so tentative about my abilities that it's difficult for me to even think of doing.

    but i know i need to.
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    exhausted wrote:
    i'm guessing one on one lessons?

    i'm trying to get up the courage to do it but i'm so tentative about my abilities that it's difficult for me to even think of doing.

    but i know i need to.


    Yes, 1 on 1 for a half hour each week...costs me $20. We are still in the process of filling in my knowledge gaps, but occassionally we touch on some more advanced topics. Take my advice and just suck it up and go!
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    You've got to run like an antelope out of control
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    BinFrog wrote:
    Yes, 1 on 1 for a half hour each week...costs me $20. We are still in the process of filling in my knowledge gaps, but occassionally we touch on some more advanced topics. Take my advice and just suck it up and go!

    yes. i got a few names a while back. i should probably make some calls.


    ----
    back to the whole great guitarist thing, i have no idea. all i know is that speed for speed's sake doesn't interest me. i'm more interested in tones and textures.
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    exhausted wrote:
    yes. i got a few names a while back. i should probably make some calls.


    ----
    back to the whole great guitarist thing, i have no idea. all i know is that speed for speed's sake doesn't interest me. i'm more interested in tones and textures.



    I can appreciate both. I love a good David Gilmour solo, where he does more with 1 note than most people can do with 50.

    But I also appreciate the techincal aspects of an incredible shred solo. Some do it just for the sake of showing off, but I think there are some technically sick players who have a good amount of feel. I think Satriani unjustly gets lumped in with some of the "solo for the sake of showing of" guys like Malmsteen. I think some of Satriani's stuff, even when he is flying across the fretboard, is very easy to listen to. He writes songs, not just solos.

    I think Trey is another great example. That man can play something fierce, but when he does it you just get sucked in. The whole band does it. All of the sudden you realize you're just flying with them. They take you on a journey and when the jam ends you wonder what the hell just happened.
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    i actually don't listen to any of the above so i'm out of my depth. you're right though about speed when it's used as more than showing off.
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Well that settles it BF thanks. Right after Radio/TV/Protools/Final Cut Pro/ Cool Edit etc classes that I'm in now, I'll start lessons. I need them. I need to branch out. I understand it all I know what it is I just need to put the terminology with it and meld it together more effectivesly. 1/2 hour a week is perfect. I can pick up a lot in that amount of time I think.
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Enjoy

    http://www.dreamt.org/spinfrog/Guitar.zip
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    BinFrog wrote:
    Enjoy

    http://www.dreamt.org/spinfrog/Guitar.zip

    danke. i'll have to listen tonight as i have forgotten my USB cable today and can't get stuff into my player here at work.
  • ballbag
    ballbag Posts: 69
    derek trucks.
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    you know i really have not listened to trey's work very much. I don't have a warm spot in my heart for most jam bands so i kind of never really gave phish a chance and i never checked out his solo stuff.

    I've heard interviews with him though and he seems like a cool guy.

    I really dig what Omar Rodriquez Lopez has done recently. Some of the stuff on the new mars volta album is really cool. Espcially the third song with that latin groove and john fruscantie's solo in the background.

    I think my favorite guitarist is J Mascis though. I love his solo's. Not the fastest or the best but the way he makes the guitar sound is awesome.
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  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    I think Trey is a great guitarist, and I love his solo stuff. He puts some feeling into it, too.
    I'm by no means a "best in the world kind of guy", though, there are so many guitarists that do so many great things

    I think some of the greats are in the jazz world now.
    Jimmy Bruno
    Pat Martino
    Larry Coryell


    All you guys that have been thinking about lessons,,,,,, GET OUT AND DO IT! :D
    Sitting one on one for a half hour every once in a while with a guitarist can open so many doors to your playing style.

    Here's the official who's_pearljam? motivational speech :) :
    Think of how much time people spend dreaming about guitars and gear and amps and sounds and things, and how many thousands of bucks in equipment you have, but don't spend the 50 bucks or so to take a half hour or an hour for some lessons to get better!
    Kind of like me! ;)

    I've been playing for like 40 years now, and I just took some personal lessons from Pat Martino in Philly last fall. All the years I've been playing and you still learn new and different things. He's one of the great players in the world and makes me look like I have 7 thumbs,, but when you get with somebody like that, somethings GOTTA rub off!
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  • casper leblanc
    casper leblanc Posts: 1,246
    Hey Bob,

    as soon as you start giving lessons - and bring it to Belgium, you can count me in for that.
  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    pearlwax wrote:
    Hey Bob,

    as soon as you start giving lessons - and bring it to Belgium, you can count me in for that.

    I used to teach!
    I've forgotten everything by now :)
    You never know, I may just show up in Belgium anyway, though. There are a few people I want to see over on that side of the pond! I'll be over for that Leffes yet!
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  • casper leblanc
    casper leblanc Posts: 1,246
    You just let me know!
  • Character Zero
    Character Zero Posts: 96
    Don't go by the studio stuff for Trey, while it is good it does not have the same touch to it. His post Phish stuff is good, but when Phish was together and the band was connecting and he would just throw caution to the wind and let it fly that man was magical on the guitar.
    Sure he is not the most technical but he is so unique and creative, I have seen Phish about 10 times and never heard him play the same song the same way twice, sure when he improvises he can stumble a bit, but it is very rare.
    As for Satriani, Vai, Malmstein etc. they are awsome but the style is so different, almost to the point of different instruments so it is like saying that one guy is a better at the drums that a different guy is at playing keyboards. Wierd comparison I know, but that is just how I see it.
    I was taught a month ago to bide my time and take it slow, but then I learned just yesterday to rush and never waste a day. Now I'm convinced the whole day long that all I've learned is always wrong. Things are true that I forget, but no one taught that to me yet
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Did anyone check out the stuff I put up?
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  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    alittle off topic but what is string-skip? saw it mentioned in a post above. sorry if this is a newbie question.
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