Hi all, I am interested in a discussion on this subject
I was chatting to some old school twangers tonight over a Guinness and I was arguing that without the web I would still be playing only
CAGED chords very simply with not much direction. The response they came back with amazed me and I am still in a bit of shock.
They told me I was a lazy new breed of player! The cheek of it was my reaction but once they they explained I kind of think I am and I blame the internet.
Why you ask?
Ok, if I want to learn a song here is my process:
- Go on itunes and download song
- search for guitar pro tab
- pick up the rhythm
- play song
- learn solo following tab
Ok say that takes me an hour to learn a very easy song no problem!
Now here is how the old school did it:
- Record song off radio
- Spend ages exploring fret board to find chords
- spend even longer finding out the solo
- play song
Took them up to week or even longer to try and get the song even after a year or two of playing.
So what is my point, well I know very little theory and I cannot grasp the fret board but am I bothered.......not really as I can find a tab in seconds or go on a message board and ask a question to a problem with out researching or even thinking it through properly. Do I have to train my ear? Again not really as I can ask a question on a site like this and be told what the answer is.
Will I change my ways.....NOPE! Well probably not anyway.
So will there be internet era of guitar players like me that will lower the general quality guitar playing as a whole?