Topic: Joe Satriani on what makes a great guitar player
Surfing YouTube and found this mostlly foreign-language (to me) video on Joe Satriani, with a brief interview portion in which Joe explains what he believes makes a great guitar player....see if it rings any bells for ya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkDbv6H7 … re=related
On the subject of what makes a great guitar player, Joe Satriani says:
To be recognized as a truly great guitar player you have to figure out how to learn to be expressive with your special message...whatever that might be.
One thing taht you find out quite soon if you go to a school where there are a thousand guitar players or if you're a professional and you're playing constantly with other bands that play is that there are a lot of guitar players who can play fast, who can stretch their fingers, who know all the chords, who've memorized the notes and the scales, so there's no shortage of players who are very good at mechanically playing the guitar...
But finding the one guitar player who has an original sound and who can write and play a song that makes you cry, or makes you excited, or makes you look inside your soul and just makes you feel happy...that's a gift, that's a special gift.
CarljMD
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