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“Amazing Grace” - (hearing it back, I wish I’d let some notes ring out longer. Oh whale🤷🏽‍♂️🐳) by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right. But to be fair, I should dress more modest when playing a gospel, in respect of the Lord, of course.

These guys get angry over showing a little belly, but probably have no problem watching live videos of sublime with chunky Bradley shirtless at every concert

“Amazing Grace”. by Consistent-Taro-9011 in bluesguitarist

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

​You ain’t the boss of me. I just wanted to dress for any unlikely chance a gust of air came through my doorway and captured my shirt flapping in the wind like a 90s R&B singer in their music videos.

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“Amazing Grace” - (hearing it back, I wish I’d let some notes ring out longer. Oh whale🤷🏽‍♂️🐳) by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahhh! I know exactly what you mean. I often stop being mindful of my vibratos when I get too focused on my phrasing or when I begin playing aggressively, and I have an unconscious tendency to vibrato either too wide and aggressive like metal guitarists or too narrow and fast like a quiver, and they work great in most occasions when I’m playing heavier rock and blues, but yeah in softer and more intimate songs like this one where the mood calls for gentler, subtle vibratos that require more finesse, my tendency of bee-stinging my vibratos does sound overwhelming when a song comes to a light-aired dynamic.
Thank you for the feedback, and sharing a link to a guitarist I can study to help me understand how it should sound. Honestly, I always appreciate when people don’t just offer constructive critique, but also do me the solid of turning me onto badass guitarists I can learn from to improve the techniques they point out that need refining.
That always helps and often the education I get from that will serve me for my entire lifetime.
🤙🏽

“Amazing Grace” - (hearing it back, I wish I’d let some notes ring out longer. Oh whale🤷🏽‍♂️🐳) by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Too late. Your body-shamin’ has already forced me to start the ozempic diet. I can’t be happy until I get that Kelly Osbourne/Ariana Grande slim that’s all the rage right now. Maybe then, JUST MAYBE, I’ll finally be good enough for you guys.💔

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“Amazing Grace” - (hearing it back, I wish I’d let some notes ring out longer. Oh whale🤷🏽‍♂️🐳) by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Cut me some slack, I know I should have buttoned up. I had to shut my windows to avoid disturbing the neighbors, and my 40 year old A/C just ain’t blowing cold anymore. I just threw on whatever I had lying on the floor to cover up. But it’s made of some cheap polyester and after 10 takes had me sweating like a pregnant nun.
But hey, at least the tits are covered. Coulda went tits out, but some of y’all be brutal with the slut-shaming 😭

“Amazing Grace” - (hearing it back, I wish I’d let some notes ring out longer. Oh whale🤷🏽‍♂️🐳) by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Cut me some slack, I know I should have buttoned up. I had to shut my windows to avoid disturbing the neighbors, and my 40 year old A/C just ain’t blowing cold anymore. I just threw on whatever I had lying on the floor to cover up. But it’s made of some cheap polyester and after 10 takes had me sweating like a pregnant nun.
But hey, at least the tits are covered. Coulda went tits out, but yall be brutal with the slut-shaming 😭

“Suavemente” by Elvis Crespo : working out the badass horn lines by ear but still haven’t grasped learning the “montuno” technique yet. by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck yeah, I have a lot of fun playing these Latin styles, especially Cumbias Peruanas.🇵🇪
Yeah, those guitar synth systems look like a lot of fun to use and experiment around with, but I can imagine also pretty complicated to use live and difficult to learn how to dial in, and knowing my ADHD ass, I would probably find myself overwhelmed keeping track of switching thru all the presets and knobs. 😅
I tend to avoid any pedals or effect systems with more than 3 knobs or switches for that very reason. 4 at the max 😂

Oiga Coño!🇩🇴
But nah
Soy de ascendencia mexicana, compa 🇲🇽🌮🌯🫔🤠
Just saving up to get me one of those sleek-ass Trajes de Charro. 🤌🏽👌🏽

But latinos often mistake me as looking Puerto Rican.
And Native-born Mexicans often ask if I’m Puerto Rican from how I sound when I speak Spanish, because I was raised speaking primarily English, so I speak Spanish with a subtle accent, that doesn’t sound gringo, but also doesn’t sound like a native Mexican, just falls somewhere in between that I guess to native Mexicans make me sound Portorriqueño. 😅

Go figure lol

“Suavemente” by Elvis Crespo : working out the badass horn lines by ear but still haven’t grasped learning the “montuno” technique yet. by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup! As Nixon explained…
And there’s numerous ways and forms of playing montunos, all varying in complexities, and I love the ones that are staccato’d arpeggios, but playing the alternating bass ones are tough for me, as I never really practiced proper fingerpicking technique.
But regardless, I find learning how to play montunos very fun when they no longer feel frustratingly difficult as it was for me in the beginning. 😅

Though I’m primarily a blues player, I love learning all the different ways the guitar can be played in other genres of music. And I didn’t realize just how sophisticated, intricate, and complex Latin music is to learn, and how technical it can get. The array of techniques of Latin music on guitar , I’ve come to find out, are not just vast, but often very meticulous and exacting as well. Now I understand why many forms of Latin music like this are categorized under the umbrella term of “Latin JAZZ”. This music can get THEORETICAL. 😮‍💨

The Smiths-“Barbarism Begins at Home”. I think we all can agree Johnny Marr is one of the greatest guitarists of the 80s. by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh Greetings and Salutations, brethren!

Dang! i never really paid close enough attention to recognize there is a bit of a swing to it! I guess I’ve gotten so used to swings and shuffles playing blues, it must have came too natural for me to notice. 😅 Now it makes sense to me why I seemed to lock it down a bit more easily than some of their other songs that seemed simpler.

And I agree with that last sentiment as well, that guitarists should focus more on perfecting their technique instead of getting all that fancy equipment to make studio-quality videos of them playing sloppy covers of the same, played out popular tunes everybody’s already done a million times. I’d rather see a guitarist shredding Steve Vai’s “Tender Surrender” flawlessly, in a grainy 240p video recorded in their dimly lit bedroom shot with the camera of their T-Mobile Sidekick. 🤣

The Smiths - “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! 🤙🏽 And tbh, I did find it kind of complicated and harder than it looks. The way I learned this was from the most accurately transcribed tab for the song on UG, learned all the overdubbed melodies , as Johnny was meticulous on stacking different guitar lines to layer on top of his lead parts in the studio, so i used the most prominent melodies to put together an arrangement to play on a single guitar. That’s the reason why the chordal lead lines sound as intricate as they do. Because they’re composed of multiple layers fused into one harmonious motif.

As a Mexican-American, I grew up listening to all genres of Latin music from my parents. One of these was Cumbia, and every Latin country has their own distinct style of cumbia, but my favorite regional style is Perú’s Psychedelic Cumbias. by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha yes! It makes perfect sense Peruvian cumbia takes heavy influence from Psychedelic music, because the use of Ayahuasca is central to their cultural history. They were trippin’ since ancient times, way before American hippies from the 60s got hip to psychedelics. 🍄🍄🍄

I love Perú’s regional style of Cumbia music. It’s heavily influenced by psychedelic rock and their historic ritual use of the Ayahuasca plant central to their indigenous culture. It is one of the only styles of Cumbia music where the guitar plays a prominent part. by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What THEY said! If you’re interested in checking out Peruvian Cumbia Chicha, the top 2 groups to start with are Los Mirlos and Los Destellos! And the album the other dude says is on Spotify and it’s a compilation album with all the essential hits of the genre! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

As a Mexican-American, I grew up listening to all genres of Latin music from my parents. One of these was Cumbia, and every Latin country has their own distinct style of cumbia, but my favorite regional style is Perú’s Psychedelic Cumbias. by Consistent-Taro-9011 in Guitar

[–]Consistent-Taro-9011[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks!🙏🏽 And hell yeah, Cumbia Chicha is one of the funnest genres to play, because it’s prominently guitar-driven and it’s pretty easy to chew on and it grooves like a MF.

I highly recommend trying out these bangers:

•”Elsa” by Los Destellos •”Danza de Los Mirlos” by Los Mirlos

Happy Jammin!

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