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Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 5 2010, 01:32 AM

I remember that sometimes in the past I've said: "I want to learn how to play jazz" or flamenco, or some strange technique...

Some I had success with but others just didn't made it through. What do you think is what motivates us to play move on from our favorite style to play and start learning some completely new ones on the same instrument?

I actually like the feeling that I'm playing something that I'm not used to.

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Jan 5 2010, 01:37 AM

Money!
Seriously.. I wanted to learn some country stuff when I joined GMC but I still haven't found the time.

Posted by: Emir Hot Jan 5 2010, 05:13 AM

I wish I can play jazz properly but just no time for dedication.

Posted by: shredmaster1393 Jan 5 2010, 05:47 AM

i actually like playing out of my original style because i think it would make my understanding of the guitar and music alot better. i can venture into different things like blues, shred, and maybe flamenco because my original style is rock or funk. i also think it gives me the motivation to try new things and expand my learning experience and make it enjoyable at the same time

Posted by: lcsdds Jan 5 2010, 06:04 AM

Pretty much sums it up. I've had to come to the realization that my time to dedicate to guitar is finite.....hell....I have to get up at 3am as it is just to get a couple of uninterrupted hours of practice. I've learned that I will be lucky if I can just learn to shred like I want to. At this point my only goal is to eventually have a CD's worth of material recorded before I die.....

Then you guys can download it for free...... OR....you could buy it and use it as a coaster.....either way is fine with me.....

Posted by: Muris Varajic Jan 5 2010, 05:06 PM

I believe it should come natural to every musician, I mean, there is good stuff in almost every genre and style,
it would be kind a shame not to at least try different ideas etc.
Some would do it more, some less but the idea is to investigate and see what you might find useful
to eventually mix with your own "favorite" style, if such a thing exist in a first place.
Playing Hard Rock or Metal is not just playing THAT, it has been made out of old school R'n'R,
then there was root Blues, things are pretty much mixed already.

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 5 2010, 05:09 PM

yeah, I really think it's a lack of time. Then again that means we tend to be perfectionists because we have to have hours to practice and get it right, it can't be just looked over for some minutes and gone.

Posted by: Muris Varajic Jan 5 2010, 07:21 PM

Oh yeah, time is the killer, never enough.

Posted by: Jesse Jan 5 2010, 07:25 PM

... I always find new stuff, lately neo clas, jazz, and now Jazz Fusion too!

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 5 2010, 07:26 PM

That's true but some genres are really different. Take Yngwie for instance. He said on an interview that his style is based on violin playing more than guitar.

Posted by: djohnneay Jan 5 2010, 08:11 PM

I don't even have the time to listen to every genre, let alone play...
Seriously, if I had the time, I would practice everything, every instrument available, but I'm busy enough as it is.
Guitar takes too much of my time already... (study became second place since I play guitar)

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jan 6 2010, 12:55 AM

Time is a real killer for me, I'm interested in many different styles, so I blend whatever I like into my own style. If I had more time, I would blend more stuff

Posted by: mattacuk Jan 6 2010, 01:06 AM

Yes this is what I most want to learn next, I love that country twang

Posted by: Chris Evans Jan 6 2010, 01:27 AM

I`ve always wanted to learn to play classical guitar, again as mentioned in every post it seems, time is against us

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Jan 6 2010, 01:47 AM

Please note that the only GMC lesson I started to learn was Muris' Fast Country Solo. Something like a 10-15 minutes "hole" between my students. I still remember the first licks but I will find the time to learn it completely

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 6 2010, 04:23 AM

that's actually a very good idea...take a little bit of something else and just blend it with whatever style you know very well...

Posted by: Muris Varajic Jan 7 2010, 01:59 AM

Dude, you're way too metal for that, do not even try!

Posted by: twist Jan 7 2010, 02:25 AM

I started my musical education with classical stuff and some jazz and rock and roll influeneces from my teacher back then (must be around not so late 90s) and then i started to listen to metal. So after i got my first electric guitar, that was the style i wanted to play. But the school bands played rock and pop, so i had some short trips to rock and pop land after which i came back to metal. Last year i played for a few weeks in a cover band, rock again. I think it was all helpfull to become a better musician (better, not good ), and as mentioned again and again before, i would (realy) learn other styles if i had more time. So with the amount of time i can afford to spend on practising, i tend to stay metal but is surely scheduled for the future, maybe after the diploma...

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Jan 7 2010, 02:31 AM

I am interested in a lot of musical styles and would like to find more time for Martin Taylor type solo performances. I would also like to have some flamengo technique under my belt as it is very refreshing to play for audience (unexpected most likely). I play classical pieces but it is not as interesting and dynamical as flamengo which requires couple of different approaches. So from me, more solo guitar works and flamengo in future, outside of things I am working on (be bop, post bop and modern jazz).

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 8 2010, 03:38 AM

ambitious! which is good,

myself I want to learn to play some andean music which I don't think has been done in electric guitar

Posted by: Sollesnes Jan 8 2010, 11:24 AM

I love so many different styles of music, I would never be able to play just one style! Also I love trying to replicate the sound and phrasing from other instruments on guitar, like the chinese erhu, japanese shamisen, sitar, pan flutes, violins, voices etc. Not even mentioning genres themself!
Moving into unknown waters is always fun for me, because you learn so much

Posted by: Muris Varajic Jan 9 2010, 09:47 AM

Wise young man.

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 9 2010, 01:52 PM

That is a very interesting thing to do! and I'm guessing it is very effective

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Jan 9 2010, 05:52 PM

When I started out playing guitar I really liked Nirvana, Alice in Chains and the whole grunge scene, so that was naturally where I started out. I then took the direct route and jumped to Progressive metal afterwards, playing a lot of Dream Theater and such. Now I'm getting old (21 in 10 days ) it seems as I'm heading more towards fusion-ish music.

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 11 2010, 04:28 PM

but haven't you felt the need to go back to some of those earlier genres you liked?

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Jan 11 2010, 04:38 PM

I do still feel that I belong more in the Progressive Metal genre when trying to compose (which then...I'm not getting anything composed!), so it might be I should move on also in that. I do still like Alice in Chains stuff, and in some ways I'd like to go "back" and maybe find a band that would play such things.

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 11 2010, 04:39 PM

I'm very similar to you in that sense, I like experimenting with other styles but the one style that I really like is prog metal which in the end is a combination of many things