PoPoppa's lessons on playing live and random tidbits

[deanmm]

a humble request

..either more of this sort of posts or put this as a sticky !

Anyway, this stuff should be sticked permanently into every musicians mind as it makes a difference between a musician and an instrument player.

not to overplay...be well !
Dean

 

[mesadualrec]

Ive been playing 10 years(Im 18 right now)and any piece of information like this I love,reminds me how hard the road to being a PRO musician is gonna be....
but not an impossible one at that

thanks for the words of wisdom

Euan

 

[pauldogx]

BP----ya got to play with Chad Wackerman!!!!!!!! Man--people if ya arent familiar with CW then you are really missing out---the guy is a stone friggin monster. A truly unique talent on the drums. Check out the Zappa stuff from the 80's with Chad--or check out the drum duets he does with Terry Bozzio(another incredibly musical drummer) on Youtube------just awe inspiring.

 

[mesadualrec]

Bozzio is better


hahaha

nah there aint such a thing as 'better' when your at that level


they are all amazing

 

[Big Poppa]

Chad has a "photographic memory" He hears an d plays something once and it is in the mental vault for life. Really amazing....I have some twenty year old vhs tapes of biff babys with albert and steve and chad and ferraro.....the flash of chad and the groove of ferraro was unbelievable.

Chad , John Ferraro and John Pattitucci and Jimmy Cox (Triple MOnster keyboard player)
all went to Long Beach State at the same time.

 

[mesadualrec]

Chad has a "photographic memory" He hears an d plays something once and it is in the mental vault for life. Really amazing....I have some twenty year old vhs tapes of biff babys with albert and steve and chad and ferraro.....the flash of chad and the groove of ferraro was unbelievable.

Chad , John Ferraro and John Pattitucci and Jimmy Cox (Triple MOnster keyboard player)
all went to Long Beach State at the same time.

Ferraro,Pattitucci and Cox


that would have been a crazy class that year

 

[Butch Snyder]

Here's My Take on Soloing...

How about soloing? How do you approach it? What do you think about? What is the reason for your solo?

Firstly, thanks for the post. Albert and Luke are major influences of mine. I remember my best friend, a drummer, wanting me to play Country. This was in 1983. I loathed Country. Then a friend let me listen to Albert. I was forever changed. The cool thing is that, while I can play like that, I really "can't" play like that. There is always something in Albert's playing that I cannot do. In this case, the students will never out-play the teacher. Albert is still growing as a player. He is constantly refining the fire....

Okay, the solo...

I can play pretty fast and clean. It's what I concentrated on when I was first learning to solo. After I became decent at that, I heard Larry Carlton. He could play fast; but his forte was taste. My "real" guitar solo education comes from him.

He says to take every solo as you are meeting someone for the first time. You reach out and shake their hand; maybe make a little small talk. You don't come up to them and barrage them with conversation and questions. LC says to take music from the same approach. I am nowhere near the camp of Albert Lee, Larry Carlton, Luke, Vince Gill, and others. I love them and their playing none-the-less though. I try to start a solo maybe a little low on the neck with a few, I mean very few long, sustaining notes and build from there. I try to make it like I'm singing with the guitar. Now, if there's a second solo I might use that opportunity to say, hey, we know each other now; so I can cut loose a little more.

The main thing for me is that I don't want the listener to perceive my playing as "musical masturbation".

Now, all that said - that's what I try to do. I'm only human and sometimes, no, most of the time, the thoughts and intentions don't translate through my hands and fingers the in the way I mean for them to but I keep trying...

Cheers,

 

[Big Poppa]

cool

 

[Eilif]

A good solo is like good sex. It starts off nice and easy and builds up to a climax. Sometimes it can be aggressive and in your face; at other times, not so much. Emotion is the key to both. Just as one must connect with one's partner, one must connect with the song, with the mood; otherwise, it's just a bunch of notes.


Did I just say all that out loud?

 

[Jimmyb]

^^That must be why my solo's are over prematurely.....

 

[Sigmunds Couch]

bump for armybass

 

[Spudmurphy]

Country Boy is a bitch. You could study that for years and never repeat yourself! You gotta practice before that one.
Lucious

Hit the nail on the head with that one Luke! If anybody wants to stretch themselves and learn a new style of playing - that is a great number to study. I've been at it for some time and it's a great one to play - as is T bird to Vegas by Albert - man that makes yer (Ernie) Ball's chime!!

 

[GoKart_MoZart]

bump for armybass

This is such a good thread, I'd forgotten about it. Thanks for the bump...

 

[NorM]

really a insensitive display of cluelessness and ego.

Who called my name?


This thread is a cool read.
Thank You BP