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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
What I considered noodling (with guitar playing) is doing technical things with no direction for an extended period of time. It's aimlessly going up and down the diatonic/pentatonic scales or bending strings over and over (till it makes you sick), stretching out solos etc -- doing those things but not making sense out it. IMO Noodling isn't how good or bad one plays on a technical level, it's about having no direction just meandering about the place like a long wiggly pasta noodle on a plate. Eric Clapton & Trey Anastasio noodles, Steve Hackett don't.
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This pretty much sums it up.