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Mentors
As a musician, and even accepting that some of you are already very proficient at what you do; if you could, who would you have as a mentor to train you to play? Living or dead. In other words, who is your musical hero or biggest influence from whom you would be willing/delighted to learn and hone your craft?
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Elliott Smith easily. He was a master on all of the traditional "rock" music instruments and is one of the most underrated guitarists of all-time for my money.
This is just one guitar track, I don't even know how he's doing it: He has such an incredible mastery over a guitar, I could spew out gems from his discography all day |
After I started learning there was an older dude who moved in across the street (I was 14 so older means like maybe 19?) and he played. He turned me on to Jeff Beck who was his hero. Dude was 100% blues/rock and taught me a ton of stuff.
Years later I learned Cause We've Ended as Lovers and we played it when he was at one of our gigs. Always wondered what it must have been like for him when I blew past the stuff he was teaching me. He was a weekend warrior while I was practicing 10 hours a day back then. |
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I've sometimes has fantasies about sitting down with Paul Simon and having him teach me some of his acoustic guitar stuff.
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I can see the value of a mentor for a beginner, but I would prefer the two-way influence of musically growing alongside a peer. That said, I bet I could learn oodles of good **** about inventive composition in jazz from Anthony Braxton just by spending a day talking to him (or just listening).
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Oscar Aleman or Fred Frith. Learning from either of them would surely make me a better guitar player.
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