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Originally Posted by Conan
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especially when it's a re-hash of what asshat said better than any other post in this thread.
just re-iterate. you don't NEED to play an instrument to love music, but depending on your personality there's a good chance it will provide another perspective to appreciate the music from that you wouldn't have otherwise. how you use that perspective is ultimately up to you.
@GB - in regards to the hendrix 'shredding' vs. traditional shredders i think the main issue is intent. hendrix never wrote pieces to showcase his chops, when he took off and started shredding he was quite literally taking off - just like when Coltrane was trying to talk to god on 'Interstellar Space'. it's more of a meditative thing, your conscious mind more or less shuts off and you just go. there's no thought of what mode to play what scale in next or any of that (which is clear as day when you check out a petrucci video).
you're right that vai gets unfairly lumped into the soulless category, i'm pretty sure zappa wouldn't have bothered with him otherwise. 'sisters' is actually the last song i tried learning before going total improv (i really hope i still have my copy of 'passion and warfare', going to have to do little digging in a bit)
plus i thought the bulk of the dragonforce fanbase were kids who played way too much guitar hero 3
