Ken Wrote
My point was that oftentimes, beginners/novices will spend TOO MUCH
time on all that theory, scales, modes, arpeggios, inversions at the
expense of learning some tunes, transcribing solos and just trying
to create music!
Dave
You can force feed yourself all of this availabe information, and be nothing but a half assed , nebbish guitar player. This is because you've covered a lot of territory, but you don't have anything down well enough to actually make music with it.
Because you've only skimmed the surface of all this stuff that you THINK you know, it's going to take twice or three times as long to absorb it.
Ken
You can go very far with very little. ( yea! Ken)
The statement that Ken makes here is the true secret of how to evolve as a player, and I hope everybody on this forum listens!
Someone who has a limited scope of knowledge, but the depth of their realization enables them to bounce people off the walls, and land them on their feet dancing, KNOWS..... how well..... and how deep you have to know, in order to get that to happen.
Therefore, every new thing they learn gets absorbed to that same level of understanding. This is true practical evoloution. This....is the way to evolve.
As far as the internet and information is concerned, speaking as someone who started off 55 years ago, sitting on a horse trough playing the Okie Boogie to a cow, I'm glad it's here.
Dave Woods www.musictolight.org
