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[DanTravis62]

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Paul Gilbert is yet another example ooviously

He seems like a nice guy and all

Obviously amazing player "technically"

But there's this phenomenon that I've noticed with Satch, Vai, Paul, and a whole bunch of 80s shredders that continues to be true with modern youtube shredders: Chops can't buy you musical taste.

Notice how whether it's Pete Thorn, Steve Terribleberry, Bradley Hall, Robert Baker, Bernth, literally every single youtube guitar player with monster skills cant write music worth a shit if they don't listen to good music.

They can demo the shit out of pedals and amps and gear all the gear. They can learn to produce well enough to produce youtube schlock. But they can't write interesting music because they don't listen to interesting music. They can sweep all the sweeps and shred all the shreds. They can learn all the theory. But it isn't going to help them because they have no musical taste. I'm not going to name any names but that is 100% the case with some guitar players on RT too.

It's just way more noticeable with famous shredders because it's such a stark, intense difference from the famous guitar players that you can tell do have actual musical influences and tastes.

All of the musicians like this were at their most successful and creative when they were surrounded with musicians (either as technically proficient as them, or not, it doesn't matter) that actually had taste and musicality

 

[Kordoba]

Steve Terribleberry

 

[Music&Chaos]

You don’t say Dan, you don’t say…

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Paul has somehow gotten worse and worse at guitar. I think his musical tastes matured and realized that teen guitar shred just doesn't tick the boxes anymore (Very relatable). Like he doesn't feel like what he was doing before was actually musical, which is the start of real progression and learning but he thinks "feel' must be genre specific - like a lot of people over a certain age range...... so he is trying to go into blues - which for Paul mostly means some lame ass Pentatonic licks and bends with a stank face on. He then incorporates little old 'Gilbert style' shred licks that don't really fit and snaps back into blues bends on notes that may or may not work depending on where you are in the track. Really disappointing progression.

 

[thegame]

Paul has somehow gotten worse and worse at guitar. I think his musical tastes matured and realized that teen guitar shred just doesn't tick the boxes anymore (Very relatable). Like he doesn't feel like what he was doing before was actually musical, which is the start of real progression and learning but he thinks "feel' must be genre specific - like a lot of people over a certain age range...... so he is trying to go into blues - which for Paul mostly means some lame ass Pentatonic licks and bends with a stank face on. He then incorporates little old 'Gilbert style' shred licks that don't really fit and snaps back into blues bends on notes that may or may not work depending on where you are in the track. Really disappointing progression.

Definitely. I saw a video interview/demonstration with him whereby he flatly stated/showed how there is no room in metal/shred guitar playing for feel. That can be true in some cases, especially with NPS obsessed robotic players, like he clearly was in the 80’s. But this kind of blanket statement really turned me off to him, not that I was ever even into RacerX or anything (laughable songwriting).

 

[Music&Chaos]

Definitely. I saw a video interview/demonstration with him whereby he flatly stated/showed how there is no room in metal/shred guitar playing for feel. That can be true in some cases, especially with NPS obsessed robotic players, like he clearly was in the 80’s. But this kind of blanket statement really turned me off to him, not that I was ever even into RacerX or anything (laughable songwriting).

It really is a sad, sad statement to have made.

It is like "Well, I couldn't figure it out, so it must not exist."

Poor Paul, he knows he knows better but his own success is mentally holding him back from truly progressing.

Weird spot to be in.