You style? Or lousy.

[Newbie]

Hmmm hey guys... just wanna ask some stuffs regarding ya playing...

as we all know.. each players got their own styles and techniques.. like make them special and "distinguishable". in a sense, when u hear a classic solo, oh "is it slash?" like... he plays those type of things very commonly and hence, whenever u hear smething like this, u will say its him...

another example is vai... i dunno la but to me he uses a lot of those mystical sounding modes. sorry im not learning modes yet.. lol so abit blur abt which one sounds which. mmm...


and also malmsteen... their own styles and techniques.

my main point being.... i notice my playing style.. like very alike. in a sense, whenever i change pattern in solos... then bends.. bla bla. like very alike. not exactly the same in every original i make... but roughly, the sound/bends/vibrato is there. like not much diff...

is this called my style? or am i not putting enuff "variations" inside. one hand ppl may get bored after listening to the same or something? =/

 

[thor666]

hmm i dunno what to reply there... lol

but frankly
up to a point where u like ur playing
i think that's where it's good and it can be considered a style.

 

[ChanMin]

If you listen to ppl like , dhaliff , shredcow , and killinghall in the Open Mic section... you will notice they all have their own distinct style of playing... I guess its best to just hantam whatever you feel ... im sure thats what they do as well

 

[dric]

yea man, i think its all about feel. like what u feel at that point of time during while playing, and you incorporate it into your guitar. like use your guitar as a medium to express your feelings and emotions abt that song to the audience.

 

[Newbie]

hmm both of u guys got a point there...


hmmm.... so its more of the ur style thing huh?

 

[vernplum]

My view is that everybody, once they reach a certain age and cultivate their own individuality (knowingly or unknowngly) has their own personal style. This manifests itself in the way you talk, the clothes you wear, the sub-cultural affairs that you engage in and so on. An extension of this is the way that you approach your instrument and your music.

To cut a long story short, since I don't want to write a Doctoral Thesis on the subject, a musician's style should be like an individual signature - recognizable and personal to that player. This is much harder to do than you think and you'll notice that there a great many copy cat soundalikes out there. Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with sounding like your favourite great player - everybody must go through this to some degree in order to learn, but to me I value uniqueness and originality in a sound.

Not saying I can do it myself, but at least I know what is a useful path to follow - to try to work on the the things that make you uniquely individual that nobody else does.

 

[pooo]

I guess its best to just hantam whatever you feel ... im sure thats what they do as well

Haha, just HANTAM. Man i miss dhalif's presence

 

[vernplum]

I guess its best to just hantam whatever you feel ... im sure thats what they do as well

Haha, just HANTAM. Man i miss dhalif's presence

I still don't know what this means.

I also don't know what 'paiseh' means (used elsewhere)

 

[pooo]

Hantam = Just anyhow whack. Play what comes naturally.

Paiseh = Usually said when someone's feeling because he did made a mistake

 

[Viruz]

I still don't know what this means.

So i see u are an xpat here?Well HANTAM is actually a Malay word for to 'bash something' or another meaning for 'Anyhow'...Paiseh in chinese (maybe Hokkien dialects) 'embarassed'...

 

[vernplum]

Yep - I am an expat.

 

[penguin]

imo styles can also refer to riffs, chord, melody or tone.
i think it depends what appeal to you and your mood..

Hantam is a gd expression but u shld know where to hantam.
And the "feel" that u trying to convey.
Well try hantam a chromatic scale.. it shld be fun

i incorporate this in my practice.

 

[tany]

i think malmsteen style is very very standard, very sian kind of feeling. he super fast player, and like to use minor scales, so hearing his songs, i find that after a while they become very sian and standard, like u know when slow, when fast...

steve vai, on the other hand, is super cool. very flexible, can do anything, but i think his style is like very groovy kind, use a lot of weird chord and notes...

for me, intermediate player, my style is mostly rock based, like metallica, iron maiden kind

 

[Vaiyen]

+1

 

[XLayaR]

My view is that everybody, once they reach a certain age and cultivate their own individuality (knowingly or unknowngly) has their own personal style..

whoa dude...that's deep.

anyway, i feel that each musician, like you said, would wanna have their own stlyes, but after awhile we'd all just be copying someone elses. it's not really about expressing your individuality, more of expressing how other people's individuality have affected your life in a way.

i play a more Tom Deonge stlye of music and i find that best desbribes me....cos his music has influenced my kinda sound. we all draw creativity from other people and turn it as our own. it's not wrong ta make your own stlye, but if you wanna copy someone elses its perfectly fine too.

anywaz that's just my opinion. great use of your english vocabulary by the way dude.

 

[vernplum]

i think malmsteen style is very very standard

It isn't standard - in fact some of his very idiosyncratic things are very, very, very difficult to do and I don't hear very many players emulating him well. Sure, many players play fast but when you analyse very deeply, a lot of them are playing stuff that only scratches the surface of what he is doing. He will always be ahead of the game because he is playing what comes out from inside him, rather than copying someone else.

Even if it were considered standard, and to some degree I can see what you are saying in that that type of shredding is relatively commonplace, that's ok, since *he* set the standard.

 

[vernplum]

anyway, i feel that each musician, like you said, would wanna have their own stlyes, but after awhile we'd all just be copying someone elses. it's not really about expressing your individuality, more of expressing how other people's individuality have affected your life in a way.

It's an ideal to work towards - don't you want to be original? Why do we have to copy someone else?

i play a more Tom Deonge stlye of music and i find that best desbribes me....cos his music has influenced my kinda sound. we all draw creativity from other people and turn it as our own. it's not wrong ta make your own stlye, but if you wanna copy someone elses its perfectly fine too.

Yes - also true to a point - we all draw influences from the music we hear and almost nobody exists in a vacuum isolated from hearing other stuff. For me, I went through a few years of Jimmy Page 'style' (even though he has an enormous palette of sounds and techniques) and then a long stint of Yngwie-type playing (or at least trying to). It also depends how long you have been playing for. There may come a point in your life as a player when you will want to breakout from copying other people and try to explore the instrument on your own, combining your influences, mixing in your own original thoughts and ideas and developing your own voice. This is where you will get the most intrinsic satisfaction from your instrument; even if you never become a rock star (and 99.99999% of us either won't, or won't want to) this aspect is what makes it ok.

anywaz that's just my opinion. great use of your english vocabulary by the way dude.

Thanks man! I try to prevent myself from getting rusty by speaking it everyday.

 

[Viruz]

i think malmsteen style is very very standard

It isn't standard - in fact some of his very idiosyncratic things are very, very, very difficult to do and I don't hear very many players emulating him well. Sure, many players play fast but when you analyse very deeply, a lot of them are playing stuff that only scratches the surface of what he is doing. He will always be ahead of the game because he is playing what comes out from inside him, rather than copying someone else.

Even if it were considered standard, and to some degree I can see what you are saying in that that type of shredding is relatively commonplace, that's ok, since *he* set the standard.

Malmsteen did set the standard....But sadly enough ppls forget that Uli Roth were actually doing it first b4 malmsteen did..