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Nothing wrong with it, it but why limit yourself when you play an instrument that will let you slide, slur, hammer on/off, play double stops, bends etc. I think if you always try to enunciate every note, it can sound a little sterile, repetitious, boring, and mechanical.
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01-06-2012 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Bosko
(4:30 Freddie's on...)
David
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I like Freddie in small doses, especially in big bands.
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Originally Posted by brwnhornet59
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Originally Posted by Bosko
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Originally Posted by coolvinny
yes. most people here are confusing "legato" with "ligado".
1. legato does not require that a note not be struck.
AND
2. ligado explicitly means to "hammer-on" or "pull-off" in non-classical guitar parlance.
Incidentally, Howard Roberts was the first person I heard using the hammer/pull lingo.
Finally, I was told by my super-hip jazz teacher not to use classical professor speak, when in LA in 1980. he said that everyone would hate you if you spoke like a professor. jazz is a street music. ya gotta keep it real. man.
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The opening question is like asking "so what if I color everything red?"
Different articulations add color to a player's style. You can take one line and make it sound like 10 different lines all through different articulations.
If a player is unaware of this, then I would say that they're brutally limiting themselves.
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Originally Posted by bluewaterpig
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Originally Posted by bluewaterpig
I should have changed the question to say what is wrong with picking most of the notes, the way early Pat Martino does, as opposed to using a lot of slurs and legato?
I think I have gotten my answer.
To my ears, picking a lot and hard is like playing a horn loudly or singing loudly. It portrays areas of exclamation. While doing a lot of slurring and legato tends to soften a passage, more like a general conversation instead of a shout.
So I am listening closely to the effect of my pick as well as gauging expended effort vs. using a slur. Its all about the desired effect.
T'anks!
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Originally Posted by Srinjay
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Originally Posted by AlsoRan
You can't convey sarcasm through text. When you post a question in here, it's going to be seen as somebody literally asking that question. That's the point of this forum.
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Picking every note is a great method. But picking every note all of the time, on every song, for the rest of your life is limiting yourself. But never picking every note is also limiting isn't it?
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Originally Posted by Srinjay
all - i reported this post to Mr B, who has done nothing.
so srinjay, WTF do you mean by "fisting"? do you mean "punching" or something else? punching is the word to use in English unless you mean something vulgar. WTF do you mean?
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Things just got interesting!
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Originally Posted by Srinjay
I personally don't care, but I think it's absolutely pointless (and a little concerning) to stick a crude comment in the middle of a perfectly fine conversation about jazz guitar.
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Originally Posted by ybjazz
A lot of guitarist playing low action strings and like legato.
Playing fast tempos picking every note is not so easy special on arch-top with heavy set of strings.
Clint Strong playing fast tempos picking every note and use 10's strings.Interesting.
He play solid body guitars.
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Jeez, can't turn my back for long, eh?
Hopefully we can keep this on track...troll removed...
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Originally Posted by brwnhornet59Originally Posted by brwnhornet59
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Homophobia? I think you mistake my attempts at trolling a troll for homophobia. No worries.
I am actually a staunch supporter of Gay rights and marriage. I have rallied for and contributed to this cause for several decades. My sister is a Lesbian and two of my closest friends are gay. But something tells me that John M and Mr Holdsworth are not, and of course the topic of this thread was not "Jazz Musicians who fist while using coke".
Sorry to offend Jake.
But back to the talk of Jazz.Last edited by brwnhornet59; 01-18-2012 at 02:17 PM.
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I come from the 'pick every note' method.
You can still sound very legato even when you're picking every single note.
(extreme example )
Now personally, I've grown tired of picking every note and I'm incorporating slurs into my playing and the transition was easy. I don't think it is the case the other way around.
One thing to consider is once you can pick every note it's easy to put hammer on's and pull offs in to your playing. While I understand people saying that you shouldn't pick every note because you need to use all the available tools on the instrument, picking is an extremely fundamental thing to do on the guitar. It sounds like you pick every note. There's nothing wrong with that, and it'll be easy to transition into other forms of playing because your right hand technique will naturally be good with this approach.
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Originally Posted by bluewaterpig
Since we can't all meet in a giant auditorium and converse (wouldn't that be grand), accuracy is important in the written forum context.
Let him(she) that hath ears take heed!
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