Book Review: to rest or not?

Elliot

Sign me up - I definitely want to ignore the last 50 years in jazz, the amplifier, Al Dimeola, and John McLaughlin.

sockeye

Elliot wrote:

Sign me up - I definitely want to ignore the last 50 years in jazz, the amplifier, Al Dimeola, and John McLaughlin.

My thought precisely!

Well, I do like a lot of post-bop jazz -- but very few modern jazz guitarists, especially that awful stuff they call fusion.

Is this quest for speed thing unique to guitarists? I wonder if painters look at another artist's work and say, "yeah, it's kind of ugly, but he painted it really fast!!"

sockeye

Shorter George H. Vasquez:

"If you want to learn to play like Django, you should learn to play like Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin instead."

nym

Hi!
I just read your discussion with interest. I think it is obvious that rest strokes sound better than free strokes (if fuller, more dynamic and more powerful is better). Classical guitarists know that and úse rest strokes whenever possible. Maybe that really is the way to go?

regards,
Nym