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What does it mean, to "fret on a note" and is that what is happening at 0:02 to 0:016 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RT0B2K6MWk

I tried to watch my bends today as I went through Red House. I don't know which way hendrix bends things but I noticed that pretty much if it is one of the three strings (high e, b, g) from the bottom of the fret, I push them, and if its ones on the top I pull them. Is this typical? It...

Below are some guitar lead techniques I'm not very clear about from a Hendrix biography*. If anyone has a suggestions, I'd be grateful. do they mean like what happens 5:11 to 5:15 or 5:59 to 6:08? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhBMntUekA4 What does it mean, to "fret on a note" and is...

Philosophically, that is an interesting area - of theory as practice. That is, I would posit that my theoretical knowledge of songs increases as I learn the song, even when I "murder" it, which, if I were hauled into court each time that happened with my playing, I would have several life...

Hi, Do you know of a recording of Hendrix playing the Donovan song Wear Your Love Like Heaven? I'm putting this on the theory forum because, I suspect, there isn't a recording, but I was intrigued while reading the Cross biography (Room Full of Mirrors pg 322) where... : circa late august...

Very nice. I can definitely see the hendrix in his playing, both in the heard and unheard - not just the quick licks and playing against his own sound, but the improvisational interlacing that (i think) contributes to the unspoken spaces. Thanks for Landau, I hadn't heard him before and will...

Robert, You are probably right about the unduplicability - but (waxing philosophically) I think if the brain can hear it or see it, then it has to be representable, even if we don't have the expertise to represent it. Following Kant here, so really waxing on ancient concepts... where we...

This all sounds like good advice, and fun to start a whole new genre! RC

Actually, my question is more an advice question on learning bluegrass on guitar - what are some of the classics that you would recommend beginning with? They needn't be simple - I kind of prefer a challenging piece, but I know so little that I would like one that has the most traditional...

Thanks. This makes me wonder, has someone classified different styles of improvisation on the guitar? ie are there 'schools' of improvisation that break down into various trends and techniques? Or has the game always been one of personal expression and individual exploration?

Hey that might make a fun song based on Wonderful World Don't know much about im-prov-i-sation Playin chords or song im-i-tation ... Don't know much about tabs and notes, Don't know much about songs Dylan wrote. But what I do know is I love to play This old guitar and the songs it say...

I can't say the teacher totally convinced me, and maybe why I unconsciously posted that as an example, hoping some other views would emerge. He did identify Bill Monroe as the culprit, and then the split off folks in Bill's group the Blue Grass Boys, Earl Scruggs and oh now I'm gonna flunk the...

Ha ha, yes MLK used to say that about the Kennedy administration, Analysis is Paralysis. But for fun, I counter with Neitzsche's quote, "there are no data, only interpretations" which indicates that all acts are acts of analysis. Probably a better Neitzsche quote, though thinly relevant "...

I heard a story about Chopin, (and my stories don't seem to be very accurate, so, grain of salt) that he would improv away, and then every once in awhile stop and try to write those notes down, typically frustrating himself to pieces. Beethoven, I heard was challenged once during a party to a...

No debate there. As I may have mentioned, I'm taking an online class in RockNroLL history and finding each lesson vast areas that I don't know and never knew about. I was shocked to find out BlueGrass is not an old rootsy form of music, but pretty much invented recently mid last century...

So when there are times historically when the same instrument is being used less or more for improvisation, how does that fit in?

>>I'm going to make you define "contemporary" before I accept that as a statement of fact. Ha ha, yes, there are many people playing these days that have percussive techniques in their guitar playing, but I don't find that a big part of playing currently. As someone said, it doesn't do much...

Maybe twist this question to ask, do some instruments lend themselves to jamming vs improvisation? Or is there something about the guitar that lends itself to one over the other? This may turn out the same answers - some feel the player is the total influence on this, others see qualities in...

Delta blues players may offer a good example of timing in playing. They treated their instruments in a more percussive way than contemporary guitar players. Still, the timing would speed up, slow down and jump erratically. One Delta blues guitar player, upon migrating north to Chicago and...

Beyond Representation Nice analogy. I wonder though about the conversation metaphor which implies a dialogue between two or more that are using shared representations. Do you sometimes find your improvisation(al) conversations go beyond what can be represented?