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    Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - Bloody Tears ~Metal Remix~

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    God do I disagree with you on this. You can have the most amazing solo ever in your head, but if you can't play a steady rhythm and a lot the of notes sound dirty, people will comment on that, not on the solo itself. One of the most important aspects of soloing is knowing how to work in the notes rhythmically and use them to your advantage to build up to a climax.

    Playing sloppy doesn't make you more musically expressive than someone with a perfect sense of timing and absolutely clean picking, it just makes you sound amateurish in comparison. Also, I don't really see how practicing with a metronome makes your vibrato sterile and robotic, I practice daily with a metronome (apart from 'practicing' by playing along and soloing to songs) and I can assure you that I got a vibrato that's at least as fast and wide as yours, just doesn't sound that uncontrolled.

    Really, I don't mean to flame you, but calling me and most other people less of a musician just because they have the discipline to practice properly is just stupid.

    No no, I'm sorry if you took it that way, I'm not calling you stupid or less of a musician or anything like that- of course not. I'm just speaking from personal experience, from what I've seen in person and what I've seen on YouTube. And of course you should have the technicality required to play your solo before you play it, that's stupid to try and play something you're incapable of. I don't know if we all hate Yngwie here since it's America so we're probably all Satriani-fanboys, but I know even he says that "If you can't play it clean as well as fast, don't play it at all."

    I think even more than rhythm, the melody of your solo is more important, since the term melody entails both rhythm as well as pitch. I'm not sure what you mean by "using it to your advantage", but that sounds to be in the same vein as guitarists telling me that I'm stupid when I bash their solos because "That lick was made to catch your attention," or "That lick's based around the fifth to fit the Cmaj7#9." This dude was pulling shit like this out of his ass for ages when I told him his composing and improv skills sucked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmbZxQQJWJg).

    Thinking so much before you play makes you sound so mechanical- you can describe it as amazingly as you want but if it doesn't sound good in action, what's the point? Plus, if a "fifth" sounds best during a "Cmaj7#9" chord, I'd rather be the type to recognize that by hearing and to match a great sounding lick to that chord without having to listen to the song 10 times beforehand to write a lick that sounds decent. It makes your playing much more organic and expressive, I think.

    Tensai, if you have a videocamera, would you mind recording some of your playing for me as I'm very interested in how you play, unless you have some videos up on YouTube already? Plus, I don't think there's a such thing as "practicing properly". Yngwie J. Malmsteen never once practiced to a metronome, but look at how clean his playing was when he was with Steeler.

    And this is sort of relevant, Tensai. Could you tell me what you think of this?

    Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - Bloody Tears ~Metal Remix~

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    You're a hell of speed picker and good with a whammy bar.

    I wasn't always a huge fan of your note choice, and that tapping part wasn't exactly pretty.

    Make your own remix man.

    Umm, I guess you should read up on what is considered a remix here. What they want down here is a complete arrangement of the source, not just a guitar solo slapped on an already existing arrangement. If anything, this video should be in Non-Remixes.

    Apart from that, the guitar solo is great. Some of the arpeggial choices show a definite knack for arrangement, but execution is relatively sloppy throughout (mostly referring to your sweep picking and tapping, though some of the alternate picking licks are quite iffy too, I can pretty much hear how you haven't been practicing to a metronome =P)

    What can I say?

    As a guitar player, the only thing I can do is critique.. and you won't like it. The playing seems very, very sloppy. Especially the more speedy parts. It's almost like you're trying to be showy when the skills just aren't there yet. With practice they'll be there, as the potential is clearly there, but just not yet.

    http://xtourdeforce.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-thoughts-on-music.html

    Read it, I agree with most of the things you guys said. I appreciate Tensai-san's positive remarks, and yeah, those sweeps were put together about five minutes before the video. They're much cleaner now. Purely focusing on improving your technical side, via exercises or drilling to a metronome, is stupid in my opinion. It completely tears apart your musicality. All of the guitarists I've heard drill six note exercises over and over again, I've found to have very little musical expressiveness and very robotic and sterie vibrato. I think it's much better to "practice" to real music, or backing tracks if it comes to that. And to Nekofrog, maybe you should start approaching music in a different mindset. Not as a guitar player, because that binds you to 21 frets and 6 strings. Maybe you should approach music as, I dunno, a musician.

    I appreciate Liontamer's defense, as some of this criticism is just stupidly irrelevant. Thanks for all the constructive criticism for those of you who didn't nonsensically bash it.

    And I'm not arrogant, but I think the tapping part was clean.

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