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Post Subject: "Technique"Posted by Paul S on: 3/29/2009
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Well, it is, indeed, mostly "technique" that I hear from the modern guitarists, and I have presumed that this is mostly because the instrument is so difficult to play, and the great music for guitar pushes players to their physical limits. I can understand how someone could approach guitar like a "challenge", and how playing the great repertoire could become an "accomplishment".
I also appreciate that many consider Yepes "simple" and/or "mechanical", and I agree that he falls into this on plenty of his recorded fare. But I also hear from him on occasion that rare quality of playing "just well enough", with his odd sort of "timing", that he disappears into a piece, and this is for me the ultimate experience of music, that I find especially rare and gratifying with guitar. Basically, "better technique" for me becomes ultimately a matter of musical gestalt.
Kottke and Fahey are hardly "serious", after all, which is one reason they are verboten here.
BTW, nice looking rosette on your avatar...
Best regards,
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