playing with emotion

[mhalsey]

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I agree with DM and Ace on the feeling and emotion, its not real unless its original music, othewise your are stealing someone elses emotion [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I disagree to a certain extent. If you're contorting your face and slingin' the neck as your bending the shit out of a note, you're obviously feeling something. If the contortions and movements are basically involuntary and not forced, you obviously love and are enjoying what you're playing. Granted, you may not have the same level of emotion as the originator, but it's there. And I agree that playing your own music would probably multiply that level ten-fold.

My wife says I do weird shit with my lips when I play and she's dies laughing every time I do my Joe Walsh impression. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Newc]

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Drooling while playing the guitar is when you're really into it.
Drooling and NOT being aware that you're drooling while playing the guitar is the Zen State you're reaching for.

Fast, slow, angry, sad, happy, whatever - if you don't have an emotional connection with the lyrics or the rhythm or melody, you can't offer a valid emotional expression about it because you're THINKING ABOUT IT, not FEELING IT.

Say you walk into a jam and someone hands you a guitar and says to play Voodoo Chile. If you're not in that groove, it's gonna sound like you read it out of a book. Same thing if they hand you a guitar and say to play Anarchy in the U.K. - if you're not in the mood of the song, it's gonna sound like you're pretending.

Whether it's Punk or Pagannini, you have to connect on an emotional level.

[Shawn Lutz]

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if you are covering other peoples music you are copying them, no art in that, no creation in that. When you create, you express yourself, not somebody else [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Tekky]

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Criss Oliva = Emotion + Technique

RIP Criss

[atomic charvel guy]

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one note is all you need. you can make one note into thousands of sounds ,bends, feedback, tremolo, etc.
i've heard jeff beck do it the best.
listen to the guitar solo of aerosmith's song "seasons of wither" off of their ROCKS album. i think the solo is 7 notes with one long one hanging on and on and on at the end and it brings me to my knees everytime i hear it.

[Ninja Guitar]

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Michael Romeo writes some of the best melodies and solos I've ever heard.

[mhalsey]

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You get out of it what you put into it. But I guess unless I'm doing something I composed, I'm an emotionless zombie. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] I guess all I'm sayin' is that *I* believe it is possible to display your *own* emotions in any song if you truly love playing it; even on a song you're covering.

[Tom B]

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i think SRV is a master in this discipline, he really loses himself in the music. You can even hear him screaming while playing a guitarsolo sometimes.

[Misanthrope189]

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Sometimes I think I concentrate too much on making sure I play the right thing...so I'm focusing on playing not really the emotion behind the music.

Nick

[kmanick]

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If it doesn't move you then how can you display emotion while playing it?
I've played originals that moved me and some that bored me.
I've also play many covers that moved me so I got "into it"
when I played them.
listen to Vai's "Window to the Soul" from his Ultra Zone album. That song could bring me to tears.
If you really feel it , it will come thru in your playing.

[Misanthrope189]

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I know I feel the songs I play, or I wouldn't have started playing guitar to learn them. Maybe I just worry feeling doesn't come through...I'll ask my girlfriend next time I play for her if she feels like headbanging and kicking the crap out of stupid people the next time I play Stormrider.

Nick

[SeventhSon]

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The trick to playing with emotion is to figure out the best time to be spontaneous. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[horns666]

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Yes Criss Oliva was oozing Emotion..he ruled!!!

Uli Roth..the epitome of feeling and emotion IMO...I never heard anyone play with more feeling in my life..

Gary Moore has it too..

Jeff Loomis...that dude is full on shred with full on emotion..he's a dick! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

and Vai...is not human.

[horns666]

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I kind of equate "Emotion" ..with "vocal"

Like most of Randy's solos ...you can sing them..Its just like singing..it could be happy , sad , angry , crazy..

I was just listening to Frank Marino and Mahagony Rush live (1978) ..that part in "who do you love" where he is just singing in perfect pitch with his guitar (like Hendrix) and then just lets it rip...as fast and clean as any of the best Zakk Wylde..

[SeventhSon]

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The trick to playing with emotion is to figure out the best time to be spontaneous. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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sorry for quoting myself...but didn't anyone get the joke? damn, i thought it was pretty clever...