What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.
Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.
I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.
You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic band essentials that have to be in place before you go any further.
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?
My God! What has sound got to do with music?
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.
I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
