Okay, so it has been some time since I’ve last posted. I’m not going to make any excuses like me being away in Atlanta and Chicago last week and how I haven’t been putting the time in it like I should — so I won’t.
Check out my good friend Mike’s latest guitar project where he tricks out his old Jay Turser. His blog about it can be found here.
Watch this short little photo montage of his latest endeavor - the paint job.
It seems to be more and more popular these days for guitarists to play a flurry of notes all over the fretboard at blinding speeds. I won’t lie to you and say I don’t want to play faster, but when does it reach the point of being too ridiculous? When does it just become boring to see someone play insanely fast.
In my opinion, I think it happens when you lose the heart in it all. Can you play fast and from your heart? I don’t see why not. But when technique and skill take over meaning and passion in guitar playing, I’d say it’s gone too far.
What do you think? Name some guitarists you think play fast with feeling, and others who just play fast. Of course, it’s all up to opinion.
Just play from your heart.
Over the past day or two it seems that unique guitar gadgets have gotten some attention from other guitar bloggers.
Things like IG’s sweet sunglasses,
Guitar Noize’s guitar keyring find,
Eric Makes Music strat toilet flusher handle find,
as well as Guitar Flame’s tele and strat mouse pad.
Not to feel left out on this ‘trend’ I found some more unique things, including this handmade guitar amp from an altoids tin
as well as these electric guitar cufflinks.
Check them out.
Since there are always debates about the greatest guitarist of all time, what about the greatest Guitar Hero players?
It is much easier to measure the latter though, as the score pretty much speaks for itself…
I came across this video today about a young teen named Chris Chike who is officially the number 1 ranked Guitar Hero III player in the world, as recognized by Guinness World Records. What this really means is that he has the highest score playing Through the Fire and the Flames by Dragonforce on expert.
How much time and effort do you think he put into being the world’s greatest guitar hero player? I wonder if in all that time he could have learned the real song. The only problem is, Herman Li can barely play the real thing, (if you’ve seen them live or have watched Dragonforce’s live videos you would know what I’m talking about).
I also wonder if he played the real guitar before that. I know there is very little correlation between real guitar and the video game, but on the average are guitar players better at learning or excelling in it? What are your thoughts on it?
I know a lot of people are sick of the stupid game already, and hate the people that brag about their guitar hero ’skills.’ I say keep them separate, video games are fun and have their place, but you should really limit playing a guitar-based video game when you have a real one sitting in your room that actually has the potential for creativity and musical expression.
That might just be my opinion because I never really got into the whole craze, but at least the game has given a lot of attention to the guitar and has exposed some people to some good ol’ rock music. If the game gives a kid the idea of picking up a real guitar and giving it a shot, I’ll be happy.
I wish there was someway to make it official or nationally syndicated or something, because it’s a great idea.
Created by Ig and carried on throughout the blogosphere, I’m just trying to spread the awareness.
Too bad it’s only one week long…all guitars need a good hug every now and again.
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