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[LAWCobra]

Well BB King said of SRV playing the blues is like being born black twice.
But no one told Stevie and we didn't mind.

Man the blues are unlike any other music form.
You must FEEL the blues to play the blues.
And to be able to convey that thru his guitar the way he did I find amazing.

And all of this from a cat that could not read music.
WOW how in the world did he remember all those songs.

[LAWCobra]

The ancient Greeks (the guys who build the Acropolis and invented coined money) were among the first who introduced musical scales. They named their 8-notes-within-an-octave scales after their biggest tribes - Dorian, Phrygrian, Lydian and Mixolydian. The Dorian scale was descending from E, the Phrygrian from D and so on. Later the musicians of the Christian Church adopted the system to their needs - and changed nearly everything reversing the order, changing the starting note and now calling it mode insead of scale. Out of names they also introduced some new, so that for example the good (=Greek) old Lydian scale became the brand new Ionian mode. That's history...

[manticor]

Originally posted by Wlfgng
I love it!   could be sig material.




and on the modes...  pentatonic scales are simplified from, but based on, the very scales you speak of
minors yes, but the same basis.

One can play with great complexity in just about any key or mode but the real talent, IMO, is in connecting and letting flow.. the placement of notes and silence etc.. not mere 'ripping'.  
Ripping with not purpose is like j**king off

yes i know but i guess that in some stlyles penotinics sound ok and they are very useful but there are is so  much more you can do with modes!!  i love writing and jaming in my favorite mode, lydian.  it has a 'dream-like' sound.  does anybody know what im talking about?
What you can do with modes, you can't always do with penatonic


BUT BUT BUT BUT  I AGREE that talent is not always speed but really how well someone can express themselves through music  how well the music flows, and how musical it is.  The thing is i am used to listening to, being taught to listen to, and to learn from musicians who write with more advanced thoery like the modes.  A lot of these things people who are not musicians would catch so i am sorry if i seem opiniated.  What i can't stand is 'wanna-b' players like the white stripes.  I mean come on, he can't sing, and he can't play.  If he can get a record deal why can't i?

I am taking guitar lessons and i have been taken for 5 year, which i know is not long, but i want to become a serious musician and i am taking it seiously.  I really dont  'dis-like' any guitarest because all of them offer new ideas that i can use to benifit my abilities.