Spartacus reveals a "slave moment" for a guitarist

Are today's guitarists bound up by slavish commercialism? Spartacus says yes!

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   Today's video will point out a typical situation where an up-and-coming guitarist was subjugated by being yelled over at every possible spot where a better crescendo conclusion could've been possible in the guitar solo improvisation segment. The bandleader made no adjustment for dynamics with any of the other instruments, which would have helped to encourage a breakthrough solo moment, a moment that the guitarist is more than capable of achieving. I understand that this was a rehearsal, although that kind of makes curtailing the guitar solo by the bandleader even worse. This guitarist was allowed a few measly bars in a rehearsal to have a chance to solo, and as if to add insult to injury, even that tiny little spotlight segment was shouted down by the bandleader. His shouting over the guitarsist was even louder on the original video....

  I understand that we all have to pay our dues. That doesn't mean that the whole system of music from the top down has to be way overly focused on profit. What's worse is that even among musicians there is a hierarchy of creating pressure to make the "lower paid" musicians play the note that they were told to play when and how they were told to play it only because the fatcats in the tall buildings are saying that you should copy the last most profitable musical product .....that you should dress in a certain way, smile in a certain way, and be ready to play any schmaltzy sellout melody to schmooze any particular audience at any time.... play on 1 foot if necessary while chewing gum....like an organic monkey grinder jukebox that is incredibly insecure and will play anything in the hopes of satisfying the industrialists that are buying commercials during the performance.

  No put down, and all respects to the guitarist… We understand that sometimes having a slave job comes with restraints, and that those restraints teach you how to become a gladiator while you are surviving. The hope is that those restraints will strengthen guitarists so that they can then later go on to achieve complete musical freedom by being given the guitar equivalent of the wooden sword of freedom that was awarded in the Coliseum for those whose excellence and mastery of their skill had proven worthy. LOL it's really a great analogy, enjoy.....

     
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