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Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships
That's not true at all, I think there are tons of kids from my generation that think being a good guitarist is having the ability to play really fast. They don't think of as a guitar as something that would play blues based rock & roll, they think of super low drop tunings and sweep picking.
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Yeah but those people idolize tools like this guy:
YouTube - ‪Monte Money talks to GW + Guitar Lessons‬‏
Note if you will how badly he ****ing MURDERS Yngwie's "Trilogy Suite Op.5"
This is how that SHOULD have sounded. There are clever improvisational additions, the song is harmonically far more complex than anything "Monte Money" has ever written, and, douche though he is, Yngwie at the very least can back himself up pretty damned well if someone questions why in the **** he's on the cover of a guitar magazine. All you have to do to destroy monte's credibility is be better than him at guitar, which really isn't hard.
YouTube - ‪Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy suite OP5‬‏
The problem is that those guitarists are coming from two backgrounds at once. One is pretty much the big 4 of thrash metal, which is pretty much pentatonic after pentatonic, 5ths, and isn't that far removed from motorhead, who aren't that far removed from any other basic rock and roll band.
The second background is the shred scene, but, being young, they're mixing the two - The "**** yeah metalllllll" impulse is running wild, so they learn the techniques but they have NO IDEA how to apply them in a framework outside of the basic pentatonic crap they've been doing for fun while building up their technique.
End result? Sweep picking gets thrown into pentatonic based rock and blues contexts with little to no reasoning behind it beyond showing off the guitarists (lack of) skill.
Which, is, ironically, just as much missing the point as Fareri or any other cookie cutter shredder.