Funny that this thread pops up at this particular time. In a somewhat similar thread on another forum, I read this post from one of the members last night:
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I was in a jam situation on Friday evening. There were five guitar players in the room, one of whom is a fantastically talented multi-instrumentalist with a particular talent for song accompaniment, one is a singer whose rhythm is spot on, then there was me, one of nature's sidemen. On the other side of the room were two folksingers with guitars (and electronic tuners which they consulted contantly). I felt a real divide in the room between the "players" and the guys who spent a lot of time honing their arrangements of obscure songs. When a fiddle playing friend turned up and started churning out her quite wonderful range of tunes it got even more divisive. The folksingers were staring at their tuners and wondering which tuning they ought to use (concert, DADGAD, open C?) while the "players" were churning out rhythm parts on guitar/banjo/mandolin, whatever came to hand.
On the whole, an instructive evening, I'm very happy to be a functional guitarist and, for the record, I spent the evening playing my little L'arrivee Cherub parlour guitar which never sounded outclassed.
More power to the people who play what's needed and no more!
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Sounds to me like being a "player" is a lot more fun than being a "thinker"!
I'd be having a lot more fun jamming my heart out on a simple 3-chord rhythm than sitting there trying to decide if it's Locrian or Aeolian, and whether I should be in open-G or double-drop-D. I want to feel music in my heart and my guts - not 'think' it in my head.
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Originally Posted by lorispencer
...almost everything can be broken down to 3 or 4 chords. Some friends of mine make a living doing '3 chord country and other stuff'....
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Then there's hope for me yet!!!
