Playing the guitar, the difference between being good and being a genius....

[Hornbein]

Genius? How about this.

 

[sbrothy]

Genius? How about this.

Jazzy! He gets a lot of blue notes and chromatic runs into it. He certainly knows what he's doing!

EDIT: Not my favorite genre though. If all his tracks are like that I'd imagine it'd get a little tiresome. A little like Yngwie Malmsteen.

 

[sbrothy]

 

[sbrothy]

The track as such is a little boring but the solo he plays at around 2 minutes in is worth it I think.

 

[sbrothy]

We haven't any Arabic pieces yet have we?

 

[Ken Fabian]

The understated excellence of JJ Cale comes to my mind. Not blistering virtuosity (I do like those too) but somehow doing more with less, often seeming simple but he could give a depth of feel to just a few notes played slow and sweet that I find moving in ways far flashier playing doesn't.

The slide guitar with some wah on Crazy Mama as one example seems like a display of genius to me.

 

[sbrothy]

We haven't any Arabic pieces yet have we?

[...]

Which reminds me that I've had a lot of fun with improvising over the "egyptian" scale. People almost always turn their heads when they hear it. I'm nowhere as good OK, he wasn't *that* imperssive. At least you can hear what it's about:

 

[sbrothy]

The understated excellence of JJ Cale comes to my mind. Not blistering virtuosity (I do like those too) but somehow doing more with less, often seeming simple but he could give a depth of feel to just a few notes played slow and sweet that I find moving in ways far flashier playing doesn't.

The slide guitar with some wah on Crazy Mama as one example seems like a display of genius to me.

[...]

Slide guitar always impressed me. I tried to play using a metal pipe on my pinky after tuning the guitar in a chord as it's done (at least one way) but I never got really good at it. It's not the same I know, but the sound is somewhere in the same neighbourhood.

Dire straits does it good too. I shudder to think of the discipline it takes to rehearse with a 12 man rock band!

Incidentally:



EDIT: Nice contraption he put togethere there!

 

[Hornbein]

If there is ever a greatest guitar genius contest I believe Jimi Hendrix would win. So original.

 

[sbrothy]

If there is ever a greatest guitar genius contest I believe Jimi Hendrix would win. So original.

Yeah, he's almost a myth. I wrote elsewhere in this thread though (and I realize this is almost heresy) that there's a couple of tracks (mostly instrumental ones) where I think Stevie Ray Vaughan does it better. Then again: who can account for personal taste!

 

[pinball1970]

Dire straits does it good too. I shudder to think of the discipline it takes to rehearse with a 12 man rock band

I thought there were only 4 of them?

 

[sbrothy]

I thought there were only 4 of them?

In the early days yeah. The concert I attended I counted 12 musicians. Not fully active at the same time of couse. That would have been be a mess.

 

[pinball1970]

Yeah, he's almost a myth. I wrote elsewhere in this thread though (and I realize this is almost heresy) that there's a couple of tracks (mostly instrumental ones) where I think Stevie Ray Vaughan does it better. Then again: who can account for personal taste!

 

[Hornbein]

Slide guitar always impressed me. I tried to play using a metal pipe on my pinky after tuning the guitar in a chord as it's done (at least one way) but I never got really good at it. It's not the same I know, but the sound is somewhere in the same neighbourhood.

Dire straits does it good too. I shudder to think of the discipline it takes to rehearse with a 12 man rock band!

Incidentally:



EDIT: Nice contraption he put togethere there!

Now I've seen everything.

 

[pinball1970]

Now I've seen everything.

Holy moly

 

[sbrothy]

Holy moly

I've just used that expression and I can't shake the feeling that you're somehow yanking my chain. But what exactly is a moly and why is it holy?!

 

[robphy]

(2022) Al Di Meola & Matteo Mancuso - live @ Eddie Lang Jazz Festival 2022 - Monterodu



(2026) Are There Any Guitarists Better Than Matteo Mancuso? - Rick Beato



More Mancuso from the covers thread

 

[pinball1970]

This guy was next level, bear in mind this was 1970. Jimi mentioned him but I'm not sure that was tongue in cheek/ sarcastic.
He told a reporter Kath was the best or, "Ask Terry Kath," when he told Hendrix he was considered the best guitarist.

 

[sbrothy]

(2022) Al Di Meola & Matteo Mancuso - live @ Eddie Lang Jazz Festival 2022 - Monterodu



(2026) Are There Any Guitarists Better Than Matteo Mancuso? - Rick Beato



More Mancuso from the covers thread

Literally wow! So young and such an endorsement from Al Di Meola. I'd take it at face value but luckily I don't have to!

 

[robphy]

such an endorsement from Al Di Meola

(2020) Al Di Meola talks about Matteo Mancuso


(2020) Joe Bonamassa talks about Matteo Mancuso

- (2024) Joe Bonamassa & Matteo Mancuso - Breaking Up Somebody's Home - Berlin am 18.04.2024 - go to 3m15s

(2023) Eric Johnson talks about Matteo Mancuso


(2020) Steve Vai talks about Matteo Mancuso

- (2026) Matteo Mancuso - Solar Wind (feat. Steve Vai) Official Video

(2025) Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso Shred Together!

 

[gmax137]

Terry Kath

The wiki entry is interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kath

 

[Hornbein]

This guy was next level, bear in mind this was 1970. Jimi mentioned him but I'm not sure that was tongue in cheek/ sarcastic.
He told a reporter Kath was the best or, "Ask Terry Kath," when he told Hendrix he was considered the best guitarist.

Jimi didn't have a sarcastic bone in his body.

 

[sbrothy]

(2020) Al Di Meola talks about Matteo Mancuso


(2020) Joe Bonamassa talks about Matteo Mancuso

- (2024) Joe Bonamassa & Matteo Mancuso - Breaking Up Somebody's Home - Berlin am 18.04.2024 - go to 3m15s

(2023) Eric Johnson talks about Matteo Mancuso


(2020) Steve Vai talks about Matteo Mancuso

- (2026) Matteo Mancuso - Solar Wind (feat. Steve Vai) Official Video

(2025) Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso Shred Together!

Why have I never heard of this guy? I seriously must have had my head up my ...!

Well, better late than never, to use a Danish idiom.

 

[symbolipoint]

In the interest of posts #95 and 97, just a refering to Fernando Perez' channel on Y.T.
https://www.youtube.com/@FernandoPerezGuitar
You go through the videos and pick which you are interested to try and hear/watch.

 

[sbrothy]

In the interest of posts #95 and 97, just a refering to Fernando Perez' channel on Y.T.
https://www.youtube.com/@FernandoPerezGuitar
You go through the videos and pick which you are interested to try and hear/watch.

Yeah, some of them can be long and you worry that people wont understand what it is you like about them. I know the feeling. (If that is indeed what you mean?).

 

[sbrothy]

As I said, this thread is hard to keep up with. This one reminds me of the "roaring twenties".

 

[pinball1970]

The wiki entry is interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kath

Yes he had a very untimely and completely avoidable end.

 

[pinball1970]

Jimi didn't have a sarcastic bone in his body.

I didnt know him so I cant comment. ;)

 

[pinball1970]

I've just used that expression and I can't shake the feeling that you're somehow yanking my chain. But what exactly is a moly and why is it holy?!

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/holy-moly

 

[sbrothy]

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/holy-moly

Oh they even referenced the herb!