Unnecessary Solos |
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Nov 7 2012, 04:51 PM
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A post by Btrian that said:
"and the solo on the last vid did just about nothing to me especially the middle part, feels more like "hey there is no solo in that song yet, let's put some fast noodling in and we're done" I found this thinking very clever and interesting to discuss... what do you think about this? Are there some songs or artist that you know and seems to do?? -------------------- My lessons
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Nov 8 2012, 12:28 AM
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QUOTE (TeoWulf @ Nov 7 2012, 05:09 PM)  Happily, there are quite a lot of bands who tend to avoid unnecessary solos. Blind Guardian, Dio, Iced Earth/though I still don't like them at all/, Demons and Wizards, Nightwish, Accept etc... and these are just the ones that came to my mind at the moment This is a good list of bands that don't play unnecessary solos! -------------------- My lessons
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Nov 8 2012, 12:31 AM
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QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Nov 7 2012, 12:35 PM) Totally. Nobody's ever come close to what Poland does !  I just watched a few vids of Chris Poland after reading this. He looks older than he should at 54. He doesn't use his little finger AT ALL. But those other 3 fingers are pretty durn fast Trippin'
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Nov 8 2012, 12:33 AM
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QUOTE (Slavenko Erazer @ Nov 7 2012, 10:54 PM) Symphony X is the band that avoid noodling for sure, Romeo phrasing and solos are astonishing every note is exactly on it's place as it should be... On the other hand there're loads of bands in Prog/Math metal music that use too much rooms for solos.. the entry quote was aimed at a symphony x song you posted  whatever, I listened to this thing some more times and it didin't really change, starts quite nice but that scale running part just kills it for me. I agree on the argument Solos shouldn't be an element just to show off skills. A solo to me is some kind of song within a song. I don't have a problem with some fast stuff being thrown in, but it should always lead somewhere and the solo should end up being sth memorable like the song itself. That scale running stuff in guitar/key lead or unision seems to be in most solos of more technical bands but it just gets boring really fast if it just feels thrown in instead of really being part of the whole thing. Another Huge factor is the backing instrumentation. one solo where this works for me would be this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN0kWlDSG0Q (starting at 3:00 or sth) big room for solos and such isn't a bad thing in general either if it doesn't feel like "yeah let's put a 15 min solo here" it is just more likely that you don't enjoy parts of it the longer it is. Just the same as with the epic song topic... some are at a point where you don't even notice that was 20 minutes, some others just feel thrown together and stretched. |
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Nov 8 2012, 12:52 AM
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I was also watching videos like this one... his finger are still very fast and his licks very unique.
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Nov 8 2012, 06:11 PM
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Well, my list would be huge ... sadly, I haven't heard any good solos that can stick to my mind lately.
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