Being well-rounded

[neosadist]

All,

Opinion question: what should I work on to be more well-rounded? I am a Christian guitarist by trade, and I know some popular rock and metal as well, but I'm sort of in a rut on my playing. I need some stuff to learn. Does anyone know of a good, well-balanced list of songs that any "well-rounded" guitarist would know? In terms of who I admire, in the guitar realm, I'd be more inclined to "want to be like" Slash more than, say, YM, but I'm cool with just about anything except weirdos like Slipknot (just telling you how my preferences go). Christian music, due to it being scattered across many styles, requires flexibility....
Anyways, thanks, if anyone can point me in the right direction of some more stuff to learn!

Robert

 

[neosadist]

Re: Being well-rounded

I am also a Christian guitarist at my church.

cool

The only bands I can think of that are cool to learn that aren't super ultra secular is Dream Theater and Rush..... Neil Peart is pretty much Objectivist and libertarian and the lyrics at times are anti-Christian though. Those bands musicianship would do well in any genre. It's according to how much conviction you have about certain things. My convictions aren't someone else convictions. Bands I know that are instrumental and uber musicians: Liquid tension experiment (Dream Theater side project with Tony levin)
Black light Syndrome (Tony levin, Terry Bozzio and Steve Stevens side project)
Planet X (Ex- Dream Theater Keyboardist Derek Sherinian, Virgil Donati, Tony Macalpine, and Billy sheenan...i think)
Derek Sherinian's solo albums (lots of guitarist/drummers guest star)

Well I'm all cool with secular music, I just don't perform it live (it's a personal thing). But in terms of learning it, sure. I "cut my teeth" on Metallica and Nirvana. I'm just wanting some stuff to round out my versatility. I'm going to be learning some of YM's classical transcriptions eventually (I love classical and would like to do some stuff similar to YM some day, in terms of classical + rock = YM). Anyways, cool. I've been working on some licks in various thematic worship music, like some songs go wanna-be-blues, wanna-be-metal, etc. Petra has some nice stuff, just sad that they never put out a huge tab book, as Bob Hartman is very good. I've also played around with some Clannad, David Meece (there's a nice classical guitar solo on "To Know Him"), Switchfoot, etc. Can you suggest some of the following styles that would be good to have as an influence, like bands to listen to: blues, jazz, metal, rock, goth, classical? I used to spend many hours listening to Andres Segovia stuff back in music college....

Robert

 

[JumpMarine]

Re: Being well-rounded

For a broad spectrum blues/jazz/50's-60's rock-Roy Buchanan, he can make a tele make sounds that you swear guitar can't make.

Pure Jazz-Wes Montgomery

Beatles....one more time the Beatles