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I wanted to thank all the folks who responded to the
"finding your own sound" post that I left earlier. In this
post, post modern age where we have sensory overload it is
very difficult say something that isn't derivative,
imitative, novel for novelty's sake, or true to "the past"
without sounding like you have been visiting a museum.

So thank you all. I would love to hear more of the group
discuss their musical philosophy. I find it rewarding to
hear from others how they "think" about music.

Many Thanks

David Rudick
sribeme@...

Your post (the general topic, not anything you said)
reminds me of the famous sax player, whose name I
can't recall, who said "I want to sound like Bird. I
don't care about doing my own thing. I just want to
sound like Bird." (I think it was in the Ken Burns
series)There are lots of guitar players whose sound I
would be content to closely imitate. More seriously,
the sound from my Heritage Golden Eagle with a
Polytone (or better: a PA) is a woody, natural sound
and I'm pretty much happy with it. (just the tiniest
bit of reverb) Funny experience: before a gig the
other night two young guys were looking at our set up
and wondering what we would be playing. One said,
"look at that guitar, you know they ain't playing no
rock n roll with that thing," and then they walked
away. Kind of a grin.

Rando


--- Dan Adler <dan@...> wrote:

--- In jazz_guitar@y..., "David Rudick"
<sribeme@a...> wrote:

John,
So, this "finding my sound" thing is still going

on with me.

HELP! One day Scofield, one day Jim Hll, next day

Burrell,

then Martino, and everyday trying to sound like

Pat Martino.

What is a man to do? I think that I am landing on

a straight

ahead thing with a hint of reverb to "warm" it up.

Anybody

out there ever dealt with the sound issue?

Comments very

welcome. Please, no just listen and sound like

yourself

stuff...that;s obvious, my self seems to be an

ever changing

menagerie of competing voices...hopefully not

psychotic.

David Rudick

David,

I can certainly relate. I think what helps is to try
and study all
physical aspects of how the people you love play.
How they hold their
hand, how they pick, how they move their left hand,
everything. This
will lead you to make choices about your own
technique, and you can't
change your technique every day... I think more or
less reverb is not
what will get you your own sound.

Let me give you an example, if you have the Pat
Martino videos, watch
him play something with the volume on the TV turned
off. You will
start to notice the complex dance motion that his
left hand fingers
do to achive his amazing articulation and having
some notes pop right
out. If you look closely and work on that - you will
get closer to
the Martino sound than by copying his gear. Same
goes for Metheny,
Hall, Pass, Burrell, Bickert. They all have very
specific physical
movements that make up their sound a lot more than
the amp or reverb.

-Dan

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J. Randall Groves, Ph.D. ("Rando")
Professor of Humanities
Ferris State University
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