I think to some extent it also matters what sort of player you want to be. Now if you want to be some malmsteen shredder, than learning some Robert Johnson or Albert king isn’t likely going to get you any closer but it’s another tool to incorporate. I didn’t start going back until well 15ish years into playing. It was only a matter of time and effort learning any tab and it’s not to hard to figure out typical rock/metal progressions for any original riffing. It’s good to see where the players that inspired you were once inspired and on a long enough timeline it all goes back to the same stuff.Īt the same time though, I just learned what I wanted to learn all of my life. I think it’d depend on what you want to play. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. If you want to be at the forefront of Gen-Z guitar shredding, you not only have to study Tim Henson, but you have to study his influences. Polyphia’s influences are rap, pop, metal, metalcore, jazz, and classic rock. EDM artists often sample and remix old jazz standards. They sample music from the last 50-70 years.īeyoncé’s influences are Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, and Tina Turner. Sampling 80s and 90s dance vibes are dominating pop. Much of the popular music right now is heavily reliant on the past. They study music from the past and present and incorporate a wide variety of influences into their playing. In other words, If you want to be a good player, you have to do what good players do. I think a well-balanced musician studies the past of not only their own genre, but others as well. Going back to the foundation of your art form is always a good idea. Personally, I don't think it really matters all that much. It could be argued that a direct connection to the source imparts a different quality to your playing. The question is whether your playing references a referent or only other references. In the 21st century, there is no "original" guitar playing it's all simulacrum. Here's where it gets post-structural and Baudrillard-pilled: is your guitar playing a simulacrum of simulacra, a reference only to other references? If so, it exists in a different kind of reality, what Baudrillard called "hyperreality," a reality that exists of only references and models. So, regardless of intent, your playing will unavoidably reference these early forms. In the sphere of popular music (for the sake of argument, this includes all popular and folk genres and excludes Western art music, classical music, etc.), the stylistic traits and musical idioms we associate with guitar trace their origins to informal music from the early 20th century - blues, country, etc., wherein musicians were first adapting the relatively new steel string guitar to contemporary music, and have developed into their current form through generations of guitarists learning imitatively from previous generations. Most (not all) modern guitar playing exists in reference to American roots music. If they were referring to foundational music forms then yeah it would be very enriching for anyone to study them.īut I really can't say what they were intending to state since there is no context for what Paul Stanley was saying and no quotations provided for Keith Richards so all we can do is apply our own opinions to a vague paraphrasing of concepts that are already incomprehensible to the interpreter. When I started studying music at a traditional college my department head told us, "We study Jazz because it has a rich and extensive history, we aren't studying dubstep because it's only a few years old. But yeah if you learn the blues you will be a lot more versatile and technically proficient. If you just want to play Blink-182 in a cover band then just do that. These guys write songs, they are likely looking at it from a songwriting perspective- if you want to be like your music idols, don't copy them, look at their influences and amalgamate them with your own voice and be original.
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