so if you can't site read you're not a "real guitarist"?Sascha Franck wrote:So you want a silent guitar player, herodotus? Just place a piece of sheet music in front of him/her.
And no, that's no musicians joke but the truth.
band members rant
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 7217 posts since 21 Aug, 2004 from Trondheim, Norway
The point is that if you place sheet music in front of a guitarist he won't play because he can't read. It's a joke.Hink wrote:so if you can't site read you're not a "real guitarist"?Sascha Franck wrote:So you want a silent guitar player, herodotus? Just place a piece of sheet music in front of him/her.
And no, that's no musicians joke but the truth.
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- KVRAF
- 5703 posts since 8 Dec, 2004 from The Twin Cities
No, not silent.Sascha Franck wrote:So you want a silent guitar player, herodotus? Just place a piece of sheet music in front of him/her.
And no, that's no musicians joke but the truth.
I just wish that I had control of their amp volume.
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- KVRAF
- 13446 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
Sure...herodotus wrote: I just wish that I had control of their amp volume.
But seriously, I'm often asked to turn up my amp more, rather than lowering the volume. Guess I'm quite an exception then.
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
Hovmod wrote:The point is that if you place sheet music in front of a guitarist he won't play because he can't read. It's a joke.Hink wrote:so if you can't site read you're not a "real guitarist"?Sascha Franck wrote:So you want a silent guitar player, herodotus? Just place a piece of sheet music in front of him/her.
And no, that's no musicians joke but the truth.
no it isn't...it can't be a joke...
that's no musicians joke but the truth
I bet if Albert Collins were here today and you put a piece of paper in front of him I'm not even sure he could read all the words...let alone the music...but I'll be damned if wasn't one fine blues guitarist...
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 5703 posts since 8 Dec, 2004 from The Twin Cities
Yeah, and of course you would have to live on the other side of the globe.Sascha Franck wrote:Sure...herodotus wrote: I just wish that I had control of their amp volume.
But seriously, I'm often asked to turn up my amp more, rather than lowering the volume. Guess I'm quite an exception then.
