Jazz is stupid hard to play. So many modes and counter-intuitive chords. Let's play nothing but augmented 9ths!
This escalated fast... Good! Tbh I don't get jazz so much. I mean I like some songs and I respect the artists and their mastery but... most of the time I prefer listening to other types of music. I like it when someone takes a pop song and turns it into jazz though and Prince was a master at that. If I'm correct they use the mixolydian mode often which is one of my favorites. Anyways, what I meant about sounds and textures of it: and of course: Vai can play crazy fast and better than most in my opinion, because he plays veeeery clean every time he shreds. He's got crazy tempo and the dexterity to back it up. This song is one of his that I like most. It's like the sea. Sliding up/ sliding down. The tempo is moderate and although he plays the same riff again and again, he always adds a little something to make it sound different and he's having a blast at it. Just look at that happy face! The song builds up beautifully. Feels like you're surfing in a turquoise wave and I've never surfed in my life. So many techniques and varieties of sound from just one guitar. I'm still trying to figure out some of the tricks he uses here. See? There are tons of other guitar stuff that might drive someone crazy apart from speed.
Vai cool. None of the virtuosos is a better song writer than Satriani, though. Nobody nobody nobody. All those dudes can play fast and do all the same tricks, but Satch is light years ahead of all of them in the composer department. Buckethead would probably be a very distant second, with Yngwie being toward the bottom. Great guitar player, but his songs suck ass.
I'm gonna nominate Guthrie Govan. Erotic Cakes is the greatest instrumental guitar album ever as far as I'm concerned. Yngwie has certainly sunk since the 80's. His latest "blues" record was an embarrassing dumpster fire, although a lot of that was due to the worst production I've ever heard in my life. Actually, nothing of his after 1988 is really worth listening to. But his first three records had so many great songs: "I Am a Viking," "The Queen Is in Love," "You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget." Those songs are badass.
I want to one day learn the guitar, but what I'm most excited about is having my piano back. When we moved my grandmother down here from Minnesota, we brought her gigantic upright with us, and my mom kept the piano I grew up playing so I could have it one day. I brought it to the first house I lived in on my own, and then my brother took it when I had to leave that house. Now I have the perfect spot for it in the living room of the house I'm buying and I can't wait to play it again. I'm going to try and practice every day so I can get back up to the level I was at before I stopped playing regularly, and I'm going to teach myself musical theory and notation so I can finally write the songs I've had in my head for years. I'm also going to get my violin back from my mom and play that as regularly as I can, too. Maintain my happiness for song and all that shit. My piano is named Gertrude Steinway and my violin is Wilberforce.
You play the piano and the violin?! Nice! You're just like one of my favorite characters I've recently thought of.
Another guitar player here - stayed with my trusty acoustic as I couldn't quite get to grips with an electric. During 70's and onward, my favourite band was the Eagles. Don Felder is my favourite guitarist.
Does singing count? I'm a qualified Opera singer and I (well, before lockdown of course) whore my vocal chords out to amateur groups around Wiltshire playing male baritone parts, though I love musical theatre works too; Disney is my not-so-secret shame I played a little piano, though sadly just sold my electric grand, but now I dabble in guitar (Had to sell my Gibson standard a while back but just picked up an Epiphone SL to doodle around on), and Ukulele. I'd like to throw Joe Bonamassa as one of the greatest guitarists to walk about on earth.
