Doyle Bramhall II - Lesson 1 - Part 2/2

Doyle Bramhall II answers some questions and improvises in his own style.

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[rock5ta12]

that whole quote on being a blues guitarist...my respect for doyle just shot up tenfold. say word doyle!!! you rock!!!

"I know that when I've played with people that are very schooled musicians, and sort of egotistical, theyll come and say: "oh, why would you want to play that? It's so simple, i mean all it is is this" but they can't play it. They think they can play it, they actually cant play it - and don't get it".

say word!!!

[fuxgood]

Plays from the heart. And it shows. Like his explanation of open tuning i.e. playing outside of the box.

[xYhonnyx]

@sepultribe666 well, you can't compare clapton. nobody's god, but clapton is one of the best. his songs have influenced a lot of great and famous musicians. and he has a lot of feeling, trust me. try to imagine the world without clapton, that he's not even born. it would be awful.

[sepultribe666]

@xYhonnyx i agree with you to some extent, but i have to say that clapton has even less feeling than him. hope you agree. clapton is far from god

[timmy47]

@DanMcCaffrey yeah but its still just opinion. maybe an opinion that a lot of people share but still one. i know plenty of people who dont care for hendrix at all. and yet he's considered one of the greatest and ost influential guitarists if not musicians ever. so what does "that something special" really mean? the ability to appeal to a mass audience? as for having a good feel for blues, i suppose yes you know it when you hear it but i was saying you cant guage feeling as in emotion.

[DanMcCaffrey]

@timmy47 Of course technique has to do with feel. Blues guitar has it's grips and deceptively simple techniques, as does classical. We agree on everything but the idea of gauging feel. Some are better than others, and we know because we just know. For some that's good enough. Entire careers were built on a hunch or knowing that someone had that little something extra.

[timmy47]

@DanMcCaffrey no actually everything you said is subjective except maybe rhythm. but thats not something that you "know when you see it", theres ways to guage rhythm. ie being in time, syncopation ability and so on. phrasing however is subjective. you may find one persons phrasing superior while i may not. and feeling isnt slang for that, FEEL is. and if you really dont think technique has anything to do with "feel" then im sorry but you are just wrong.

[timmy47]

no, he doesnt have the technique for it. blues has just as much technique as anything else. for example, playing blue note (in between a mino and major note) can take some time to get down. you however have no place saying who has or hasnt got "feeling". theres no way to guage how much feeling someone plays with.

[xYhonnyx]

i now that friend very well. trust me, if he would knew how to play the blues, he would play nothing but the blues. i see him try, but he just doesn't have the feeling for it.

[timmy47]

why is it sad? maybe he doesnt want to play blues.

[Duraan84]

To me, music is feel, not complexity. All the schooling in the world can't teach you to feel.