Need support for Guitar Idol competition... (Page 1 of 2)

Ok, I'll start this off. You're obviously a very good player but from what I can see you're just randomly soloing through the whole piece and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere and it got kind of boring for me after about 30 seconds.
If you watch players like Joe, Eric Johnson, Vai, etc.. you'll notice that when they do instrumentals
they follow a vocal melody line through the song to turn the song into an instrumental  story with dynamics if that makes any sense.
Like I said you've obviously got the talent but I think if you set things up so the tune has a strong melody line with small solo patches around it you'd do a lot better to attract votes.
Good playing though.

ok guys thats not realy fair the point is that he is only not in time and dosen`t let the singel note the space it needs !!!  i thought that he has the same problem than all people and that calls  stage fright
you are a great player Jimi if i hadeyour abilities i would be satisfied
a drum machine woud make that good in short time
it would be cool if others here who claim to call them selfs players post a youtube vid too
im a very poor player and my plumber Fingers are not the best equipment to play a guitar but i do and it turns out in musik if you belive or not ...lol
ok so far i like that tread and jimi great work

Man you are a killer player with frightening chops!  You get my vote!  You definately have the command over the instrument, and never looked like you were struggling at all.  That is the sign of a truely great guitarist, the ones that "make it look easy".  I was really digging the tones you were getting out of the Strat as well. A++ man keep up the good work!

Nice playing man!  I didn't even know this contest existed,  might have to give it a go next time it comes around.

Oh yeah... just because I am American doesn't mean I 'll vote for you cause you told me to.    I need to check out the other canidates too...I'll bet there are some other good players.

Vielen Dank Alex, fühle mich sehr geehrt.

Good guitar player joke:

Q...How many guitar players does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A...All of them...one to actually perform the task, the rest to sit back and say, I could have done that faster, smoother and with more feeling...:D

Jimi...make it meaningful to you...not everyone is going to get it or always appreciate it, play what you hear in your head and what you feel in your heart.  People have always told me I should do this or that with my playing, but what I have found lately is that I do it to make me happy, and most of the time the audience gets it,  it's some of the guitar players in the audience that don't...and so be it.  Have fun with it, cause fun is contagious.

Jimi, not only you speak german, you must be here in germany, aren't you?
Music police are these guys in front of the stage with crossed arms and analyzing face and waiting
for you to make mistakes... They seem to be everywhere, haha!
Our singer once commented that over the mic and said "Alex give your best unless you wanted to get arrested!"

Alex

I saw Roy Clark play when I was a kid...When he made mistakes he laughed at himself on stage.  I thought that was so cool, not to take himself that seriously,  I adopted that also.  It also breaks that "I just screwed up" tension.