GearMe
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Some 'young person' music!
Well...at least it's a young person playing it...
Well...at least it's a young person playing it...
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Tell us why you think the songs you're posting are important. The idea is to give some sort of context to why you think this particular song is great.
Yeah...saw that in your initial post...thanks for adding your comment about Jake Shimabukuro on your post.
Gotta say though, it's a tad obvious (imo) for us to post stuff like that
Am hopeful, that people on this thread could listen/watch that video of Jake and not only know he's got great skills but that he's a solid artist who is leveraging those skills to deliver a pretty cool rendition of a classic rock song...even if you don't like the Uke or George Harrison!
Prefer this version myself (btw...the old guy has some skills as well) but then I love watching great artists play together...especially covering other artists songs...'young' or 'old' music!
a couple more just for grins...
Yes...how you play/sing a piece of music (emotion, timing of notes/silence, cadence, emphasis, etc.) can definitely make up for 'lack of virtuosity'.@GearMe: ...Their contribution was not virtuosity, but vision and depth. Joplin played slow. Harrison played slow, On purpose. For Joplin his intention in this regard is documented in his original sheet music.
See the post by @bigshot of a video of Bill Evans talking about the pitfalls of playing too many notes to approximate a style, rather than playing what you know more slowly. By his account, if you are playing too many notes to approximate a style you never get to depth that way.
When I see the virtuoso stuff in these idioms on one level my jaw drops and I love it but on another level it sounds like people banging on their instruments and what I search out is the depth, the misunderstood, the brave, those with new ways of musical expression, those speaking from pain or joy or a metaphysical concept or latent ironies and communicating on several levels. And even most musicians still don’t get it and never will. Universities are getting better and better at methodically cranking out folks with great virtuosity in jazz and classical, but the depth is getting lost. Virtuosity is turning into orthodoxy and a commodity, even in improvisation. IMHO.