Re: Wall-to-Wall soloist
Lawson G. Stone ( (no email) )
Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:20:09 -0500
>>Bert mentioned these wall-to-wall soloists. I'm having this exact problem
>>with a guitarist. I recently joined a guitar trio. Everything sounds the
>>same. This guitarist will play an infinite number of choruses (or so it
>>seems) on every tune. It's gotten to the point where I have to stomp on
>>his foot or something. It's so tasteless and boring. He was even opposed
>>to playing acoustically because he wouldn't be able to use sustain and
>>stuff. I told him it would force him to play more quality notes.
>>
.>I could use some advise.
>>
>>peace,
>> David Kaczorowski
>> kaczordk@umdnj.edu
>>
>>
>FWIW, Bill Evans used to stop comping after 2 choruses of the bass
>solo.
>
>If the guy went on after that he was on his own.
>
>You could just stop playing after the guitar players second chorus.
>
>That will get his attention.
>
>reed
Don't forget the tried-and-true method for making a guitarist stop
playing: put music in front of him.
I think we guitarists, coming from the rock tradtion often, think of
these really long Hendrix-like or Santana like epic solos. I felt bad
about my soloing because I just can't sustain any kind of good solo for
more than a chorus, if that. Recently I've just focused on learning to
play one decent solo on every tune I know. No harm in having the
audience and band members wish I'd played more, I suppose.
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