I wonder what percentage of the guys that make these types of videos have gotten together in a garage or basement with 3-4 other musicians, setup drum kits and real-amps, and played actual songs?
This is rubbish and you should feel bad. :squint: This kind of shit is everything that's wrong with guitar playing these days.
"Look at me mime this shit I step edited for 8 hours. I'm playing my flawless custom guitar btw, in case you didn't notice the headstock and the Gruv Gear(tm). Buy my preset pack!"
It's the shred guitar version of elevator music. Aesthetically pleasing, technically sound, but utterly uninteresting beyond a space-filling or gear-demonstration point-of-view.
My gripe isn't so much the trend part of it as much as there isnt anything to remember about the actual music I hear. The rest is also not my thing but these days it seems its more about seeing something than hearing it and the hearing it part to me is a big deal. I dont like/remember this bland music 10 minutes later. :shrug:
As someone who actually likes guitar synth stuff (Adrian Belew, Maiden's SWiT) I've got to wonder how this guy is playing synth with a guitar, when there's no pickup. MIDI Guitar 2 can't really track that fast, and it didn't sound like an SY300, though I suppose it could have been. My guess is that he's definitely miming it.
I'm pretty sure I've complained about this before, but it baffles me how most people just don't care these days. I was talking to my friend about the Weeknd's Super Bowl show, and he couldn't care less that it was likely entirely lip-synced because it "helps them put on a more extravagant show".
Same with the bands that use pitch correction, extensive backing tracks, etc. I was at a show a couple years back where one of the opening bands couldn't finish their set because their laptop crashed. My first thought was "that's what you get for relying entirely on a laptop", but no one else really seemed to care.
I guess in the era of thumbnails and clickbait, the look is getting more and more important, at the expense of the actual music. I don't get it, but it seems like I'm in the minority. :shrug:
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