Throwing Shapes

[Dreamland_Rebel]

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its all about KK Downing and Glen Tipton's stage moves. they (along with Kiss) started it all. i know i like to be entertained when i pay to see a show. so i like to give that felling back to the audience.

[Kamo]

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Originally posted by VitaminG:
From the last paragraph of this page:

""throwing shapes" is slang for showing off, but also for striking a pose, voguing, stylin', etc. It's also said of guitar players, from what I can gather, when they strut and fret onstage. It's kind of a self-referential writerly title for what I was doing here, which is to say, just playing and fncking around."

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think i know what you're talking about. Sometimes while playing, i'll have a space where i have no frethand movement, so out of boredom i run my hand to the heal and back up to playing position really fast without fretting, and catch the next note in the song. I know its nothing special *everyone heree probably does it out of habit* but would that be an example?

[jjw]

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Since when has throwing shapes been about posing like a girl on stage [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

its the lynch shapes/patterns free fall improv not the posing..lol

[Snoogans]

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Throwing good shapes is one of the most important skills a guitarist can learn! It's no use being a virtuoso shredder, if all you're gonna do is stand around like some kind of dummy! Compare Steve Vai and Allan Holdsworth - both Godly players, one throws big shapes, the other doesn't - which one would you rather be? [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img]
Chicks dig shapes! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[chemical_ali]

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that's not true. eric johnson is awesome and he stands on stage like a statue! [img]graemlins/nono.gif[/img]


hey dreamland, do you ever do any shows in chapel hill, NC? ever hear of the cats' cradle?

[Boxcar Willie 84]

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Chapel Hill has one of the top underground scenes in the country...I want to go there sometime and check out some shows.

[DeadNight Warrior]

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Originally posted by Snoogans:
Compare Steve Vai and Allan Holdsworth - both Godly players, one throws big shapes, the other doesn't - which one would you rather be?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[img]graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]
Allan Holdsworth?


Oh sorry, was that more of a rhetorical question? [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[chemical_ali]

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i've never heard of alan holdsworth

[Dreamland_Rebel]

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Boxcar Willie 84
Member # 24
Chapel Hill has one of the top underground scenes in the country...I want to go there sometime and check out some shows.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Raleigh's got the great metal scene, chapel hill is just a bunch of collage alternative crap.

and yes we have played the cats cradle before. it is a great club. we just prefer to play in raleigh cause thats where the metal's at.

[Boxcar Willie 84]

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That "college alternative crap" is what I'm in a band playing right now!

[jgcable]

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I thought that throwing shapes was just taking basic scales or modes and improvising over them using a specific shape or pattern to build guitar solos.

[Hotrod]

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i've never heard of alan holdsworth

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Exactly! I think [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img] that was his point..........

[Dreamland_Rebel]

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i'm sorry to hear that willie!

well.. as long as you enjoy it.

i love metal.

[Boxcar Willie 84]

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I love metal too...fortunately this state is big enough for both of us [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]