Part 2 example "I can See for Miles" The Who
Part 3 Example "Smoke on the Water"
part 4 Example Stevie Ray Vaughan
Part 5 - example: "Hey Joe" Jimi Hendrix
part 6 - E7#9 to E7b9 turnaround
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Tribalistic Guitar Zombies Attack Spartacus for post that went Viral!.
Save your tribalism for football, not music? Spartacus says YES!
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Yesterday's blog went viral with over 1000 views in a few short hours before I pulled the plug. People were offended and went tribal against me because they didn't want to accept that a "has been band" that they identify with, was actually now 70-year-old men playing ninth grade level material. I tried to let everyone have some fun at my expense, but they were serious and angry. This happened on several threads and groups so it was not a fluke....
It was like fighting tribalistic guitar zombies..... Proving them wrong, showing the facts, demonstrating the reality in an experiment mattered not to them as they kept coming.....
In the gladiator days, it was so much the beginning of time and civilization that the chariot race teams didn't even have names. They just had colors, like "red team". People would identify so much with their chosen color for the team they like, that fights between the colors would regularly break out in the stands because people would wear armbands or handkerchiefs indicating which team they supported. This "pack mentality" is not the consciousness that leads to being a true musician.
Do you know how many hundreds or even thousands of students that still play with the same problems today as they did decades ago when I originally pointed out the clear problems to overcome in their playing to them?
Example: I challenged everybody who plays guitar in Southern California to come by my gig on Highway 101 and try to take me on as a guitarslinger. I offered $500. if they can keep up with me. Hardly anyone showed up and when they did I defeated them quickly and decisively...... One guy in particular was a young very talented Italian gentleman who ended up taking lessons from me after he saw one of the competitive guitar showdowns. In the lessons I pointed out his clear core tempo problem, which is a major issue for 99% of the guitarists out there anyway, so there is no insult in pointing it out. In fact it is my job as a teacher to point out and fix issues like that. Well after many months of denial, where he simply did not believe that he had this problem, he invited me to his house. He had spent a fortune on pedals, and one of those pedals was a repeater. I watched him lay down a rhythm chop with slightly imperfect timing. He then proceeded to play along to the imperfect repeated rhythm riff with slightly off rhythm leads. So I found the cause and proof of his core tempo issue. Not only was he avoiding having me fix his internal core tempo, but he was continually making it worse with his repeater. This is what I mean when I say that music is an exact science, not a popularity contest. LOL
When yesterdays blog was going viral, I was getting notices continually on my computer screen with angry people who are trying to put me down. A common complaint was that they don't understand what I'm saying. Well that figures…but usually people are humbled when they don't understand and it pushes them to learn more. Not always the case though....Out here in California, for example, there is a rampant syndrome illness of denial. When I teach people something solid like 2+2 is four, they say things like, "Well five works better for me and my friends. In fact I think that five is the new four!" LOL.
Music is not a tribal way to identify yourself with a particular cultural group that presents a particular musical mood or rhythm. The online groups and communities of slaves that I was trying to liberate yesterday, insisted that they are more comfortable inside their cells because of excuses like that their meals are brought to them and they get good medical care. The analogy makes it so clear. :-) lol
All I have done since I went virtual is to give tons of free lessons and support to upcoming musicians that are sincere. In this process of giving help and realizations to hundreds and already even thousands of people that I have given attention to here online, I have finally found the 1st online guitar gladiator so far that I have actually registered to study with me. I guarantee you that this gentleman will reach the highest levels of mastery in a very short time with my guidance and I will show proof.
Yesterday's groups and communities that attacked me, were defending their illusion and mediocrity by trying to say that my absolutely free services were profit driven and therefore bogus. One pointed out that it seemed like my philosophy is similar to that of Tom Hess. LOL Tom is one of the most successful online teachers that ever was, so that is hardly a put down.
No one teaches for 50 years for money. The millions I made and blew was not from teaching I assure you. I teach because I care, and I hate to see all these guitarists suffering without a clue of how badly they are suffering. It is my little way of helping the world.
I took the blog post down yesterday, because I don't need a bunch of misinformed trolls who live in a world of musical self denial and delusion.... Zombies who keep coming back defending factual errors, in order to feel a tribal connection to their mediocre level musician friends rather than freeing themselves to grow into expressive linguistically coherent musicians. It is not my fault that music actually has clearly defined standards of which it is my job and duty to point out. By the way, I found the best thing about the band used as an example yesterday, and gave them huge praise, but the trolls had not read that far or "understood". lol :-)
When the groups of musical slaves that I tried to liberate yesterday were huddled in their cells refusing to come out and telling me to go away… I finally understood why they taught me to fight in the water when I learned lifeguard skills. Unbelievably most people will physically fight you as a primal reaction when you swim out a few miles to save them, so you have to sometimes punch them to knock them out in order to save them. Can you imagine how lame is to attack someone who is trying to liberate you with facts and demonstrations of the application of those facts?
I'm not thick-skinned, as I have been in this business my whole life, and I have been ripped off by tons of fatcats and harassed by tons of trolling fans. I am fighting for the few sincere musicians who are actually seeking to break through, rather than just "fit in".
They accused me of elitism and arrogance. Is it arrogant to master your craft over a grueling 55 years of almost daily work? Guitar teaching on the web and in the stores is not about creating virtuoso players, instead it is based on a tribal mentality of identification with a particular kind of music that associates with a particular social group. I may be arrogant in order to wake up sleeping musicians and provoke them into dialogue, but I am in no way an elitist. The proof of this is that I spent my life helping others in music and I'm still doing that today for free. I'm giving you my family secrets going back for many generations of musicians for free.
I am not going to excuse myself in terms of what I've achieved or the solid knowledge that is the truth which I stand by in order to make the gregarious "mediocre mentality" masses give me more "likes" and patronizing comments. People use tons of false equivalencies to eradicate the different levels of achievement in music as if it is all the same. Since very few people understand the language of music, they except musical gobbledygook, or they deny that people who are in their 70s and are still playing Johnny B Goode in the mediocre way is material for a high school level band. Instead of taking the next step and being curious, they zombie attack with lame clueless statements like, "I don't understand it, so therefore it is not understandable and you must be wrong, even though I can't explain how". Ha ha what utter nonsense.
The first album I was on was with Joan Sutherland, who was one of the greatest singers of all time. The conductor was Leonard Bernstein, one of the most prolific and advanced music teachers of all time. Do you think it hurts my feelings to hear some pathetic troll trying to deny truths in order to attempt to put me down? Fine then, it's a free country, go ahead and stay mediocre if you like… Go ahead and play children's level music for 50 years just because drunken audiences scream. Defend your lack of study, and continue to believe that comprehension and understanding to the point of realizations that integrate into your being as you play better and better is a bad thing....so this way you can do basically NOTHING.
Okay, so the Spartacus gladiator, guitarslinger analogy is a little silly and not for everybody. However I am amazed at how much the analogy of Spartacus and the slaves does hold up in this situation as I move forward to free the up-and-coming generations of guitar players… The problem is that it is hard to free slaves that believe that they already emancipated. lol
Since I got attacked so vehemently, I do not hesitate to add here that most of the guitarists out there are clueless. No amount of unsophisticated clapping audiences that puff you up, and no amount of money paid by record companies will change that. Being a virtuoso is not a cheap thing, and everyone who has achieved that level of mastery got help from bona fide maestros whether they know it or not.
If anyone believes that anything I teach is untrue, then come forward and if I cannot prove the teaching to be true, or an equivalent of something true, then I will admit defeat and eat my hat. If I can prove it though, then I will insist that you join our posse of freed guitar slaves and pass the master keys to musical freedom on to others..... if you want to be a "no facts" trolling zombie, then you can do nothing..... :-)
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
CALL Paul to book your free lessons: (707) 634-4447 spartacusofguitar@gmail.com
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
CALL Paul to book your free lessons: (707) 634-4447 spartacusofguitar@gmail.com
Yesterday's blog went viral with over 1000 views in a few short hours before I pulled the plug. People were offended and went tribal against me because they didn't want to accept that a "has been band" that they identify with, was actually now 70-year-old men playing ninth grade level material. I tried to let everyone have some fun at my expense, but they were serious and angry. This happened on several threads and groups so it was not a fluke....
It was like fighting tribalistic guitar zombies..... Proving them wrong, showing the facts, demonstrating the reality in an experiment mattered not to them as they kept coming.....
In the gladiator days, it was so much the beginning of time and civilization that the chariot race teams didn't even have names. They just had colors, like "red team". People would identify so much with their chosen color for the team they like, that fights between the colors would regularly break out in the stands because people would wear armbands or handkerchiefs indicating which team they supported. This "pack mentality" is not the consciousness that leads to being a true musician.
Do you know how many hundreds or even thousands of students that still play with the same problems today as they did decades ago when I originally pointed out the clear problems to overcome in their playing to them?
Example: I challenged everybody who plays guitar in Southern California to come by my gig on Highway 101 and try to take me on as a guitarslinger. I offered $500. if they can keep up with me. Hardly anyone showed up and when they did I defeated them quickly and decisively...... One guy in particular was a young very talented Italian gentleman who ended up taking lessons from me after he saw one of the competitive guitar showdowns. In the lessons I pointed out his clear core tempo problem, which is a major issue for 99% of the guitarists out there anyway, so there is no insult in pointing it out. In fact it is my job as a teacher to point out and fix issues like that. Well after many months of denial, where he simply did not believe that he had this problem, he invited me to his house. He had spent a fortune on pedals, and one of those pedals was a repeater. I watched him lay down a rhythm chop with slightly imperfect timing. He then proceeded to play along to the imperfect repeated rhythm riff with slightly off rhythm leads. So I found the cause and proof of his core tempo issue. Not only was he avoiding having me fix his internal core tempo, but he was continually making it worse with his repeater. This is what I mean when I say that music is an exact science, not a popularity contest. LOL
When yesterdays blog was going viral, I was getting notices continually on my computer screen with angry people who are trying to put me down. A common complaint was that they don't understand what I'm saying. Well that figures…but usually people are humbled when they don't understand and it pushes them to learn more. Not always the case though....Out here in California, for example, there is a rampant syndrome illness of denial. When I teach people something solid like 2+2 is four, they say things like, "Well five works better for me and my friends. In fact I think that five is the new four!" LOL.
Music is not a tribal way to identify yourself with a particular cultural group that presents a particular musical mood or rhythm. The online groups and communities of slaves that I was trying to liberate yesterday, insisted that they are more comfortable inside their cells because of excuses like that their meals are brought to them and they get good medical care. The analogy makes it so clear. :-) lol
All I have done since I went virtual is to give tons of free lessons and support to upcoming musicians that are sincere. In this process of giving help and realizations to hundreds and already even thousands of people that I have given attention to here online, I have finally found the 1st online guitar gladiator so far that I have actually registered to study with me. I guarantee you that this gentleman will reach the highest levels of mastery in a very short time with my guidance and I will show proof.
Yesterday's groups and communities that attacked me, were defending their illusion and mediocrity by trying to say that my absolutely free services were profit driven and therefore bogus. One pointed out that it seemed like my philosophy is similar to that of Tom Hess. LOL Tom is one of the most successful online teachers that ever was, so that is hardly a put down.
No one teaches for 50 years for money. The millions I made and blew was not from teaching I assure you. I teach because I care, and I hate to see all these guitarists suffering without a clue of how badly they are suffering. It is my little way of helping the world.
I took the blog post down yesterday, because I don't need a bunch of misinformed trolls who live in a world of musical self denial and delusion.... Zombies who keep coming back defending factual errors, in order to feel a tribal connection to their mediocre level musician friends rather than freeing themselves to grow into expressive linguistically coherent musicians. It is not my fault that music actually has clearly defined standards of which it is my job and duty to point out. By the way, I found the best thing about the band used as an example yesterday, and gave them huge praise, but the trolls had not read that far or "understood". lol :-)
When the groups of musical slaves that I tried to liberate yesterday were huddled in their cells refusing to come out and telling me to go away… I finally understood why they taught me to fight in the water when I learned lifeguard skills. Unbelievably most people will physically fight you as a primal reaction when you swim out a few miles to save them, so you have to sometimes punch them to knock them out in order to save them. Can you imagine how lame is to attack someone who is trying to liberate you with facts and demonstrations of the application of those facts?
I'm not thick-skinned, as I have been in this business my whole life, and I have been ripped off by tons of fatcats and harassed by tons of trolling fans. I am fighting for the few sincere musicians who are actually seeking to break through, rather than just "fit in".
They accused me of elitism and arrogance. Is it arrogant to master your craft over a grueling 55 years of almost daily work? Guitar teaching on the web and in the stores is not about creating virtuoso players, instead it is based on a tribal mentality of identification with a particular kind of music that associates with a particular social group. I may be arrogant in order to wake up sleeping musicians and provoke them into dialogue, but I am in no way an elitist. The proof of this is that I spent my life helping others in music and I'm still doing that today for free. I'm giving you my family secrets going back for many generations of musicians for free.
I am not going to excuse myself in terms of what I've achieved or the solid knowledge that is the truth which I stand by in order to make the gregarious "mediocre mentality" masses give me more "likes" and patronizing comments. People use tons of false equivalencies to eradicate the different levels of achievement in music as if it is all the same. Since very few people understand the language of music, they except musical gobbledygook, or they deny that people who are in their 70s and are still playing Johnny B Goode in the mediocre way is material for a high school level band. Instead of taking the next step and being curious, they zombie attack with lame clueless statements like, "I don't understand it, so therefore it is not understandable and you must be wrong, even though I can't explain how". Ha ha what utter nonsense.
The first album I was on was with Joan Sutherland, who was one of the greatest singers of all time. The conductor was Leonard Bernstein, one of the most prolific and advanced music teachers of all time. Do you think it hurts my feelings to hear some pathetic troll trying to deny truths in order to attempt to put me down? Fine then, it's a free country, go ahead and stay mediocre if you like… Go ahead and play children's level music for 50 years just because drunken audiences scream. Defend your lack of study, and continue to believe that comprehension and understanding to the point of realizations that integrate into your being as you play better and better is a bad thing....so this way you can do basically NOTHING.
Okay, so the Spartacus gladiator, guitarslinger analogy is a little silly and not for everybody. However I am amazed at how much the analogy of Spartacus and the slaves does hold up in this situation as I move forward to free the up-and-coming generations of guitar players… The problem is that it is hard to free slaves that believe that they already emancipated. lol
Since I got attacked so vehemently, I do not hesitate to add here that most of the guitarists out there are clueless. No amount of unsophisticated clapping audiences that puff you up, and no amount of money paid by record companies will change that. Being a virtuoso is not a cheap thing, and everyone who has achieved that level of mastery got help from bona fide maestros whether they know it or not.
If anyone believes that anything I teach is untrue, then come forward and if I cannot prove the teaching to be true, or an equivalent of something true, then I will admit defeat and eat my hat. If I can prove it though, then I will insist that you join our posse of freed guitar slaves and pass the master keys to musical freedom on to others..... if you want to be a "no facts" trolling zombie, then you can do nothing..... :-)
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Friday, January 6, 2017
Origins of Guitar - G form
"Orienting to G form"
video ends with fade to black then it kept running :-) lol
The primal string... Allman Brothers "Ramblin Man" breakthrough position 1973
Part Four: All the way up the neck with transitioning from E form to G form in high register of A. Move way beyond open chords forever and free yourself!
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Anyone who says that they know music theory is clueless...
Cash in your theory "chips" and stop learning now? Spartacus says NO!
I just had a chat interaction with an advanced level guitarist. I offered to take this person to the next level, to which he rattled off some theory that he knew as if those basics were the end of all of theory, when in fact they are only the beginning. In fact for a real musician who is in the fire of musical culture, there are tons of guitar theory breakthroughs just waiting for someone who isn't adversarial and probably scared of their own possible greatness to find! Of course you don't need to be an Einstein for music theory breathroughs, but at least one must stop working against themselves and WANT to breakthrough. If you think that you have broken through, then you are not breaking through...the idea is to be in the now breaking through exponentially and spontaneously.
Guitar players are scared because they are afraid of how great they could be if they actually pulled it together on all levels. Most online guitarists are being conned by their patronizing viewers into a lullaby sleep mode. It's the lullaby of playing with continual repetition. We are taught to fit it and conform… be part of the group… be popular….. and that breakthrough greatness is lonely as well as irrelevant… that mediocrity and copying rules the day because it is safe... Eventually you are ready for them to tell you what notes to play and when to play them....then they will shackle you with unrealistic amounts of income and then overhead until you become part of the payola-esque process in which higher levels of breakthrough creativity are squashed in you BY YOU! Those fatcats are smart man.... lol
Mark my words, hear ye hear ye! Showing up to the Grammys to accept an award is death for some true musical warriors. This guy in the chat today said that he knows it all. I quickly proved that he didn't know it all, but here's the real burn..... The definition of the word theory starts with "a supposition or a system of ideas". So the real ultimate burn is that there is no way to complete the process of theory and to theorize means ultimately to simply suppose stuff. lol
Some of the Roman gladiator slaves were rich people who voluntarily allowed themselves to be enslaved in order to gain fame, glory, and status as an ultimate fighting champion. Do you understand the example of the Coliseum? The audience builds the "artist" up to full hypomania, but then the real nature of the audience comes out when they stop patronizing and turn their thumbs down to Ceasar ensuring your humiliating death.
Musicians also perform in "Coliseums" and they are also mentally duped by the audience, and in most cases, instead of the musicans being all fired up with creativity like they were at the start of their career, they are repeating 9th grade music because they need the tons of money that it now takes to maintain their unrealistic financial position. Money can work against you as well as help, and the audience can also hurt you as well as help. Never trust audiences or comments unless it is a bona fide Maestro in the appropriate circumstances for learning and growing.
So what is your goal? Do you want to sit around the campfire playing guitar while getting accolades from your peeps? Do you want to make records that other people would like so that you can get awards and money? Or.... Do you also want to be part the posse of guitar gladiator slaves that have recently been freed and are in a movement with me to free others....
When I mentioned the famous people that I've taught, and I point out flaws that they need help with such as the rampant "nervous twitchy" style of playing, it is to show you that you are no different than them. We are all dealing with the same issues including me… This is when the potential student replies, "Well then let me do all those things wrong so that I can get the girls and the money in the life that the famous person that you taught has."
This is a mental trap. Unfortunately other than getting help from a few independent sources such as myself, or some of the advanced programs at older music universities, the mentality of being "creatively curtailed and pacified into a corporate submissive mentality" through being enamored with comments, audiences clapping, girls being impressed, and awards, will rule your personal musical world.
Remember that some of those ancient Roman gladiators PAID to become gladiators by putting on the chains and living as a slave, and even risking death just to hear the cheering and become a star...
In conclusion the Spartacus of Guitar Blog says: Anyone who says that they know music theory does not.....
Join the Spartacus of Guitar Revolt and free yourself!
Congratulation! Click here to get a free webcam guitar lesson just for reading this post! Click here for detailed info on one of the hottest teachers on the web!
I just had a chat interaction with an advanced level guitarist. I offered to take this person to the next level, to which he rattled off some theory that he knew as if those basics were the end of all of theory, when in fact they are only the beginning. In fact for a real musician who is in the fire of musical culture, there are tons of guitar theory breakthroughs just waiting for someone who isn't adversarial and probably scared of their own possible greatness to find! Of course you don't need to be an Einstein for music theory breathroughs, but at least one must stop working against themselves and WANT to breakthrough. If you think that you have broken through, then you are not breaking through...the idea is to be in the now breaking through exponentially and spontaneously.
Guitar players are scared because they are afraid of how great they could be if they actually pulled it together on all levels. Most online guitarists are being conned by their patronizing viewers into a lullaby sleep mode. It's the lullaby of playing with continual repetition. We are taught to fit it and conform… be part of the group… be popular….. and that breakthrough greatness is lonely as well as irrelevant… that mediocrity and copying rules the day because it is safe... Eventually you are ready for them to tell you what notes to play and when to play them....then they will shackle you with unrealistic amounts of income and then overhead until you become part of the payola-esque process in which higher levels of breakthrough creativity are squashed in you BY YOU! Those fatcats are smart man.... lol
Mark my words, hear ye hear ye! Showing up to the Grammys to accept an award is death for some true musical warriors. This guy in the chat today said that he knows it all. I quickly proved that he didn't know it all, but here's the real burn..... The definition of the word theory starts with "a supposition or a system of ideas". So the real ultimate burn is that there is no way to complete the process of theory and to theorize means ultimately to simply suppose stuff. lol
Some of the Roman gladiator slaves were rich people who voluntarily allowed themselves to be enslaved in order to gain fame, glory, and status as an ultimate fighting champion. Do you understand the example of the Coliseum? The audience builds the "artist" up to full hypomania, but then the real nature of the audience comes out when they stop patronizing and turn their thumbs down to Ceasar ensuring your humiliating death.
Musicians also perform in "Coliseums" and they are also mentally duped by the audience, and in most cases, instead of the musicans being all fired up with creativity like they were at the start of their career, they are repeating 9th grade music because they need the tons of money that it now takes to maintain their unrealistic financial position. Money can work against you as well as help, and the audience can also hurt you as well as help. Never trust audiences or comments unless it is a bona fide Maestro in the appropriate circumstances for learning and growing.
So what is your goal? Do you want to sit around the campfire playing guitar while getting accolades from your peeps? Do you want to make records that other people would like so that you can get awards and money? Or.... Do you also want to be part the posse of guitar gladiator slaves that have recently been freed and are in a movement with me to free others....
When I mentioned the famous people that I've taught, and I point out flaws that they need help with such as the rampant "nervous twitchy" style of playing, it is to show you that you are no different than them. We are all dealing with the same issues including me… This is when the potential student replies, "Well then let me do all those things wrong so that I can get the girls and the money in the life that the famous person that you taught has."
This is a mental trap. Unfortunately other than getting help from a few independent sources such as myself, or some of the advanced programs at older music universities, the mentality of being "creatively curtailed and pacified into a corporate submissive mentality" through being enamored with comments, audiences clapping, girls being impressed, and awards, will rule your personal musical world.
Remember that some of those ancient Roman gladiators PAID to become gladiators by putting on the chains and living as a slave, and even risking death just to hear the cheering and become a star...
In conclusion the Spartacus of Guitar Blog says: Anyone who says that they know music theory does not.....
Join the Spartacus of Guitar Revolt and free yourself!
Congratulation! Click here to get a free webcam guitar lesson just for reading this post! Click here for detailed info on one of the hottest teachers on the web!
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Blind leading the blind is epidemic in the guitar world.
A video with a real real blues journeyman's perspective included? Spartacus says Yes!
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As human beings we do copy each other's mistakes. Almost all personal guitar performance videos on the net are in the category of "close but no cigar". Most of the guitar teachers who use online videos have really bad timing and awkward phrasing. Most online teaching promotes learning very complex mental infrastructures like tablature and way too much memorizing. What is really fascinating is how enthusiastic and exuberant these "ignorant guitar teachers" are as they get it all wrong! This is scientifically provable, and not speculation.....
Unfortunately nobody seems interested in using science to confirm the reality of somebody's ability to express themselves in the language of music through electric guitar. Most players are super puffed up with the subjective feelings that they get from their common tones accidently having extra meaning, or they are overwhelmed with the confidence that they are copying someone who was accepted. An overlooked obvious fact is that if you're copying, then unless you have personalized the style into something unique that works as well as the original, then a "copy" is never quite as good as the original. Copying riffs is more like using an old Xerox copier, which is not a perfect digital copy and therefore has flaws. Why follow a musical methodology that guarantees that you will never be as good as the original representation of what you're performing? Spartacus says, "MAKE IT BETTER OR LEAVE IT ALONE!" Learn to speak for yourself. :-)
Teachers with bad musical phrasing and a gross lack of comprehension are teaching students who become teachers that do the same thing until we now have an army of "monkey see monkey do" second-class reproductionists. Almost all of these so-called online guitar teachers have severe core tempo problems and are in denial about it because it "feels good to them". lol
Can you free yourself from this vast ocean of illusion? Evidently you can't do it on your own… What everybody, except for the players that are in the fire of learning, are doing is to fool themselves into thinking that they are in fact musically coherent, when the truth is that they just FEEL musically coherent.
You can live in the world of illusion, or you can use science along with a bona fide guitar Maestro such as myself in order to improve your playing to the point where it morphs into confirmed linguistic perfection. This "musical incoherence" is a phenomenon that is separate from whether or not mistakes are made.
Another big issue is that so many people are copying so many people, who copied so many people that the original message gets lost. In other words,very few can play properly orchestrated rhythm guitar in rock and blues. They just don't know what playing real rhythm chops is all about, so they speculate and try to fake you out just as they have faked themselves out. If they enjoy guitar even though they "copy instead of create" because it feels good, then imagine how much better they will enjoy when their playing comes into complete control and coherence through tried and true bona fide methods that can be verified?
So today I will make a video right now going over some bona fide professional rhythm chop perspectives which can lead you in the right direction toward a journeyman's perspective of blues rhythm....
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
CALL Paul to book your free lessons now: (707) 634-4447
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2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
CALL Paul to book your free lessons now: (707) 634-4447
spartacusofguitar@gmail.com
As human beings we do copy each other's mistakes. Almost all personal guitar performance videos on the net are in the category of "close but no cigar". Most of the guitar teachers who use online videos have really bad timing and awkward phrasing. Most online teaching promotes learning very complex mental infrastructures like tablature and way too much memorizing. What is really fascinating is how enthusiastic and exuberant these "ignorant guitar teachers" are as they get it all wrong! This is scientifically provable, and not speculation.....
Unfortunately nobody seems interested in using science to confirm the reality of somebody's ability to express themselves in the language of music through electric guitar. Most players are super puffed up with the subjective feelings that they get from their common tones accidently having extra meaning, or they are overwhelmed with the confidence that they are copying someone who was accepted. An overlooked obvious fact is that if you're copying, then unless you have personalized the style into something unique that works as well as the original, then a "copy" is never quite as good as the original. Copying riffs is more like using an old Xerox copier, which is not a perfect digital copy and therefore has flaws. Why follow a musical methodology that guarantees that you will never be as good as the original representation of what you're performing? Spartacus says, "MAKE IT BETTER OR LEAVE IT ALONE!" Learn to speak for yourself. :-)
Teachers with bad musical phrasing and a gross lack of comprehension are teaching students who become teachers that do the same thing until we now have an army of "monkey see monkey do" second-class reproductionists. Almost all of these so-called online guitar teachers have severe core tempo problems and are in denial about it because it "feels good to them". lol
You can live in the world of illusion, or you can use science along with a bona fide guitar Maestro such as myself in order to improve your playing to the point where it morphs into confirmed linguistic perfection. This "musical incoherence" is a phenomenon that is separate from whether or not mistakes are made.
Another big issue is that so many people are copying so many people, who copied so many people that the original message gets lost. In other words,very few can play properly orchestrated rhythm guitar in rock and blues. They just don't know what playing real rhythm chops is all about, so they speculate and try to fake you out just as they have faked themselves out. If they enjoy guitar even though they "copy instead of create" because it feels good, then imagine how much better they will enjoy when their playing comes into complete control and coherence through tried and true bona fide methods that can be verified?
So today I will make a video right now going over some bona fide professional rhythm chop perspectives which can lead you in the right direction toward a journeyman's perspective of blues rhythm....
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Object Worship of Guitars Gone Wild!.....Zappa.. Yoko...B.B. King
Free yourself from objectifying your music!? Spartacus says YES!
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Endless television shows with guitarists fawning, flaunting, and bragging about their EXTRA guitars....They spend hours and years and decades talking about which guitar was used on which track, when most of those tracks only require a ninth grade level to learn. We need breakthrough solutions to music theory that takes society to new combinations of musical "colors" and rhythms. We don't need quite so many museum curators of guitars and guitar history. Frankly we need more designers making affordable instruments that play as easily as a professional instrument and better kids size guitars.
We are immersed in a culture of mad consumerism and this mentality of object worship of guitars has gone wild. This philosophy of cultism has affected the music world by subconsciously distracting and discouraging musicians from truly becoming breakthrough creative contributors.
As musicians, if indeed we are musicians and not just musical scribes, we need to encourage the values that music brings.... values such as engaging in daily mental gymnastics… having musically transcendent moments throughout the day… understanding other people more thoroghly through their music (which goes into the ear instead of the eye) rather than focusing on the "Lilliputlian" differences that our society uses to divide and weaken the average guy...and we need to adapt advanced values that help society on all levels in terms of speech, cognition, and a host of other human faculty combining benefits that learning music properly affords.
I saw a show again that was absolute, pure, unadulterated guitar frenzy to the point of cultism or even object fetishism. The format of the show was simply that a guitarist was happy about the guitar that he had just purchased. What happened was that a half a dozen easily recognizable, and some even likeable mental syndromes revealed themselves immediately. Not one mention about encouraging others which is following typical advice from publicists to maintain the "myths"...In this case I want to give a pardon since the individual on the show is creating a kind of museum and he is very carefully re-creating some of the original material that was played on the original guitars in his awesome collection, which is super cool :-)
SMUG ALERT: I only have one guitar because I want others to have guitars too. lol As a result (in my mind) of living a life of helping others get guitars, I have the "guitar karma" to have been awarded the perfect guitar for me by the "universe" lol I am grateful......If I did have a house full of guitars, I certainly wouldn't go on TV and brag about it, The fun is in the music folks, not in the instrument. In the case of electric guitar though, the instrument must be able to be set up for easy action etc.
I am obviously not a shrink, lol however most musicians have a good dose of mania and narcissism for starters. The problem is that instead of mental health professionals addressing how people in the arts are continually being exploited in a way that exacerbates their mental illnesses, THEY GIVE THEM RECORD DEALS! lol The cultural excuse is that they get millions of dollars and a lot of attention so that makes it OK. It was B.B. King's famous line in the movie "Kentucky Fried Movie" that had him saying, "Turn your mental affliction into a recording career!" lol
If a guitar is designed nicely and comes together, meaning that it is balanced and can be properly intonatied, then it's "practical" value is probably less than $500. This means that one can buy a perfectly workable instrument, in other words an instrument that could be turned into something that is as easy to play as a top-of-the-line model for a reasonable amount of money. This means that anything over about $500. is either for a very specialized purpose, or it is representing the state of the art for particular model. So if you're not in that category, and especially if you have spent more than $500. on a guitar, then it would be insane if you didn't at least know the musical calendar in a way that includes verified ear training along with a clear a simplistic understanding of pop music theory.
Where do I look for encouragement? There are some awesome teachers leading the way like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Johnny Hiland, Wesley B Wright, and Tommy Emmanuele. These are personalities that empower other musicians. Frank Zappa told it like it was, and I have to admit that even with my interesting little twists (if you will allow) I'm still simply repeating the message made by one of the most respected pop musician Maestros EVER! Could I really let it all hang out musically like Frank Zappa did?? hmm.... Good thing everyone has their own studios these days, so at least we have the freedom to procduce without meetings on Madison Ave, with a bunch of fatcats waiting to take us.
When I was a teenager I went to a show at the Fillmore East with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on the night that John Lennon and Yoko Ono asked to jam on stage with them. Yoko's idea of "music therapy theatre" really left me wondering if she was just crazy. Certainly her part of the performance was really over the top… I still don't understand it. LOL I will say that it certainly made an impression on me though....Now I think she was just "nutty" and having grown up "Greewich Village" I should not have been shocked. :-)
What music would you compose if you were completely free from considering how anyone else might respond to it? What would you play if you were completely free due to your complete knowledge of the exact science of guitar as applied to pop music? How crazy WOULD YOU GET? :-)
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2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
CALL Paul to book your free lessons now: (707) 634-4447
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We are immersed in a culture of mad consumerism and this mentality of object worship of guitars has gone wild. This philosophy of cultism has affected the music world by subconsciously distracting and discouraging musicians from truly becoming breakthrough creative contributors.
As musicians, if indeed we are musicians and not just musical scribes, we need to encourage the values that music brings.... values such as engaging in daily mental gymnastics… having musically transcendent moments throughout the day… understanding other people more thoroghly through their music (which goes into the ear instead of the eye) rather than focusing on the "Lilliputlian" differences that our society uses to divide and weaken the average guy...and we need to adapt advanced values that help society on all levels in terms of speech, cognition, and a host of other human faculty combining benefits that learning music properly affords.
I saw a show again that was absolute, pure, unadulterated guitar frenzy to the point of cultism or even object fetishism. The format of the show was simply that a guitarist was happy about the guitar that he had just purchased. What happened was that a half a dozen easily recognizable, and some even likeable mental syndromes revealed themselves immediately. Not one mention about encouraging others which is following typical advice from publicists to maintain the "myths"...In this case I want to give a pardon since the individual on the show is creating a kind of museum and he is very carefully re-creating some of the original material that was played on the original guitars in his awesome collection, which is super cool :-)
SMUG ALERT: I only have one guitar because I want others to have guitars too. lol As a result (in my mind) of living a life of helping others get guitars, I have the "guitar karma" to have been awarded the perfect guitar for me by the "universe" lol I am grateful......If I did have a house full of guitars, I certainly wouldn't go on TV and brag about it, The fun is in the music folks, not in the instrument. In the case of electric guitar though, the instrument must be able to be set up for easy action etc.
I am obviously not a shrink, lol however most musicians have a good dose of mania and narcissism for starters. The problem is that instead of mental health professionals addressing how people in the arts are continually being exploited in a way that exacerbates their mental illnesses, THEY GIVE THEM RECORD DEALS! lol The cultural excuse is that they get millions of dollars and a lot of attention so that makes it OK. It was B.B. King's famous line in the movie "Kentucky Fried Movie" that had him saying, "Turn your mental affliction into a recording career!" lol
If a guitar is designed nicely and comes together, meaning that it is balanced and can be properly intonatied, then it's "practical" value is probably less than $500. This means that one can buy a perfectly workable instrument, in other words an instrument that could be turned into something that is as easy to play as a top-of-the-line model for a reasonable amount of money. This means that anything over about $500. is either for a very specialized purpose, or it is representing the state of the art for particular model. So if you're not in that category, and especially if you have spent more than $500. on a guitar, then it would be insane if you didn't at least know the musical calendar in a way that includes verified ear training along with a clear a simplistic understanding of pop music theory.
Where do I look for encouragement? There are some awesome teachers leading the way like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Johnny Hiland, Wesley B Wright, and Tommy Emmanuele. These are personalities that empower other musicians. Frank Zappa told it like it was, and I have to admit that even with my interesting little twists (if you will allow) I'm still simply repeating the message made by one of the most respected pop musician Maestros EVER! Could I really let it all hang out musically like Frank Zappa did?? hmm.... Good thing everyone has their own studios these days, so at least we have the freedom to procduce without meetings on Madison Ave, with a bunch of fatcats waiting to take us.
When I was a teenager I went to a show at the Fillmore East with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on the night that John Lennon and Yoko Ono asked to jam on stage with them. Yoko's idea of "music therapy theatre" really left me wondering if she was just crazy. Certainly her part of the performance was really over the top… I still don't understand it. LOL I will say that it certainly made an impression on me though....Now I think she was just "nutty" and having grown up "Greewich Village" I should not have been shocked. :-)
What music would you compose if you were completely free from considering how anyone else might respond to it? What would you play if you were completely free due to your complete knowledge of the exact science of guitar as applied to pop music? How crazy WOULD YOU GET? :-)
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Is it for Money or Music?
Can you free your music from the influence of profit? Spartacus says yes!
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People actually excuse musical problems with, "They made a lot of money". Is that what you want? Do you want a lot of money, or do you want the satisfaction that comes from associating intimately with musical excellence?
Spartacus of Guitar Blog chooses musical excellence which is always available and is the true value. The satisfaction of knowing that you're helping other people to be more enthusiastic about music and raising the bar for what is acceptable for creativity in our society cannot be found on a financial statement. We all know that music can be a peace inducing social barrier melting activity, and yet the music "industry" is all about selling out and enslaving yourself to the mentality and the physicality of a false concept.
One aspect of that false concept is the mania that one feels when people clap. The truth is that people will clap for anything. Just watch one of the morning shows with people standing outside clapping. In fact people will clap just from seeing a sign saying to clap. LOL In fact most audiences are looking for an excuse to yell, scream, and clap. In smaller venues with alcohol served, it becomes quickly apparent that the performance is an excuse for them to yell, and their true music appreciation level is very low. They want to yell because of the beer and the next morning they don't even remember what songs they were yelling for. Don't be enamored by people clapping, or by compliments. I recommend instead to stick to what you know is excellent and have that confirmed either scientifically or by a bona fide Maestro.
It is amazing that there are shows like MTV cribs where people are highlighting the money they made, while never mentioning anything about their musical education. In CA it's embarrassing for a bachelor to have more than one car. Actually I have an electric bicycle so there is a "smug alert" here. Lol The idea of getting on TV and showing how many extra gas guzzling cars that you have as part of your musical presentation image, is exactly what seems to be at the crux of what is wrong with the music business. It is all based on a profit driven hierarchial philosophy where everyone is on the take to some degree or another. Even if we are in our home studio that is paid for on our day off, if we are thinking about adjusting criteria like the length of the song being shortened for DJ purposes, then we are enslaving ourselves.
Of course even music has limitations. That is no reason to keep playing the same things over and over again in the same way that everyone else has been playing them on the guitar for the last 50 years because the fatcats think it is commercial. Obviously I am repeating phrases and musical expressions that have been overused too, however I make up for it in the higher message as the subtle sub-context of the musical piece comes into full comprehension at the right moments. So just like when we talk, people repeat a lot of words like "the", "it", and "like". lol It takes someone who has the capacity to comprehend musical linguistics so that they indeed can turn a regular musical piece that uses standard phrases into something that still becomes unique due to the multidimensional characteristics of creatively manipulating common tones and adding guitar pick textures to the demi-tones.
Spartacus of Guitar blog philosophy is that money can be involved, but it needs to be the right amount of money for a purpose that is righteous. Selling out while thinking that after you get your big break, then everything will straighten itself out is a very dangerous mentality. Not that you will make millions and lose it as in the old cliché, but that you will miss what you could be capable of musically doing right now as you put it on hold to make money. People clap and then they boo.... money comes and money goes.... but your musical breakthroughs, and the ever increasing intensity of your musical meditation never leaves you....
You can't force it, but the ironic thing is that when you do go all out just for the music, shunning the glittering opportunities for quick money, then you seem to end up with way more money than what would have been yours if you had you not sold out.
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CALL Paul to book your free lessons now: (707) 634-4447
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People actually excuse musical problems with, "They made a lot of money". Is that what you want? Do you want a lot of money, or do you want the satisfaction that comes from associating intimately with musical excellence?
Spartacus of Guitar Blog chooses musical excellence which is always available and is the true value. The satisfaction of knowing that you're helping other people to be more enthusiastic about music and raising the bar for what is acceptable for creativity in our society cannot be found on a financial statement. We all know that music can be a peace inducing social barrier melting activity, and yet the music "industry" is all about selling out and enslaving yourself to the mentality and the physicality of a false concept.
One aspect of that false concept is the mania that one feels when people clap. The truth is that people will clap for anything. Just watch one of the morning shows with people standing outside clapping. In fact people will clap just from seeing a sign saying to clap. LOL In fact most audiences are looking for an excuse to yell, scream, and clap. In smaller venues with alcohol served, it becomes quickly apparent that the performance is an excuse for them to yell, and their true music appreciation level is very low. They want to yell because of the beer and the next morning they don't even remember what songs they were yelling for. Don't be enamored by people clapping, or by compliments. I recommend instead to stick to what you know is excellent and have that confirmed either scientifically or by a bona fide Maestro.
It is amazing that there are shows like MTV cribs where people are highlighting the money they made, while never mentioning anything about their musical education. In CA it's embarrassing for a bachelor to have more than one car. Actually I have an electric bicycle so there is a "smug alert" here. Lol The idea of getting on TV and showing how many extra gas guzzling cars that you have as part of your musical presentation image, is exactly what seems to be at the crux of what is wrong with the music business. It is all based on a profit driven hierarchial philosophy where everyone is on the take to some degree or another. Even if we are in our home studio that is paid for on our day off, if we are thinking about adjusting criteria like the length of the song being shortened for DJ purposes, then we are enslaving ourselves.
Of course even music has limitations. That is no reason to keep playing the same things over and over again in the same way that everyone else has been playing them on the guitar for the last 50 years because the fatcats think it is commercial. Obviously I am repeating phrases and musical expressions that have been overused too, however I make up for it in the higher message as the subtle sub-context of the musical piece comes into full comprehension at the right moments. So just like when we talk, people repeat a lot of words like "the", "it", and "like". lol It takes someone who has the capacity to comprehend musical linguistics so that they indeed can turn a regular musical piece that uses standard phrases into something that still becomes unique due to the multidimensional characteristics of creatively manipulating common tones and adding guitar pick textures to the demi-tones.
Spartacus of Guitar blog philosophy is that money can be involved, but it needs to be the right amount of money for a purpose that is righteous. Selling out while thinking that after you get your big break, then everything will straighten itself out is a very dangerous mentality. Not that you will make millions and lose it as in the old cliché, but that you will miss what you could be capable of musically doing right now as you put it on hold to make money. People clap and then they boo.... money comes and money goes.... but your musical breakthroughs, and the ever increasing intensity of your musical meditation never leaves you....
You can't force it, but the ironic thing is that when you do go all out just for the music, shunning the glittering opportunities for quick money, then you seem to end up with way more money than what would have been yours if you had you not sold out.
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
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