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Old 02-21-2015, 11:14 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frownland View Post
I think that noodling and improvisation are really the same thing. There's good improvisation and there's bad improvisation, noodling follows under the latter umbrella. Then there's structured noodling that we see in all of those overproduced prog bands where the music is nowhere interesting but it's fast and complex and blah blah blah. I call Mr. Malmsteen to the stand again.
I have no idea who this Malmsteen is but upon listening to a few seconds of one of his songs I got a dragonforce vibe from it and now I regret playing it at all.

I understand what you're getting at though. Chaotic free jazz is awesome, but chaotic music based on a few arpeggios doesn't afford enough creativity and just sounds bad.
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