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Location: 6 String Ranch | What's the hardest music to play?
What's the easiest music to play?
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Hardest - classical. Big stretches, intricate fingering, and mostly because the pieces are so long that you have to play them almost every day in order to remember them and not get them mixed up with other pieces in the same key.
Easiest - country. Three chords mostly - although, come to think of it, that might make them the hardest. Hardest because they are so boring it's hard to force yourself to play them. :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | Hardest?
I watch those finger style guys play and think their brains are just wired different. They play the base lines, melody lines, a fills without blinking.
And... I think story telling while playing (as in Alice's Restaurant) is also a much under rated talent. Like finger style it forces the brain to perform two very different things at one time.
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I have some video of a talented finger style guy and a story teller guy from the last open mic. I'll try to post them.
Bluegrass... done right... is more complicated that you might think.
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Easy?
Like Allison, I'd say the simple country songs.
Maybe the easiest thing to do is play a song poorly. |
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Location: SoCal | What Brad said about fingerstyle.
Easiest? None of it for me.... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Hard... Fingerpicking.
Easy... Neil Young. Pete Seeger. (oh! and Green Day)
And I would really love to get that little Alice's Restaurant riff down. |
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Location: Flahdaw | For me, fast lead guitar, chickenpickin, good vibrato. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Flamingo Music finger picking. No way I can move that fast. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Hey... isn't there some kinda unwritten rule that the guy who asks the question has to give an answer for himself? |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Hardest? Anything done with a flat pick--and I'm not talking lightning speed here, just simple melodies or leads...I can pick a few melodies on mandolin, but on guitar? Not anything that you'd want to listen to...
Easiest? I learned to fingerpick first, so that's fairly second-nature now.
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Originally posted by kitmann:
Flamingo Music finger picking. No way I can move that fast. I think you're referring to Flamenco. |
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Location: Ohio | Hardest.....Classical (Listen to John WIlliams)
Easiest.....Folk music,,(PPM, Kingston Trio) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OK, I'll answer......
Hardest is Bluegrass, you are either right on or everyone knows you're not. I think it's harded than classical since classical is usually much slower and deliberate. Yes it's hard as hell but try it at warp speed two minutes into the tune and make it sound smooth.
Easiest, blues, you can be as sloppy as you want and can always call it style. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Hard? anything I don't wanna play.
(whether or not I'm any good at it is a completely separate issue)
easy? whatever I just did.
No. Really. that's what I meant to play.
Country is hard to play convincingly, if you're not into it. There was a local girl (well, woman now....but she was a girl just last week in the 80's) who's promo line was "Country Music, not just played, but felt". I was disappointed that she wore absolutely NO felt! |
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Location: Texas | Any style played right................. is hard...
you need to find what you are best at...
fingerstyle, flatpicking, classical, strumming, rasgeado, power chords, swing, etc....they are all hard played right and nobody can play all styles right...(very few)
best advice I can tell you is:
find a style and stick with it!
IMHO, Flamenco guitar is the hardest... 'cause you need to be a one man's band...
bluegrass is very hard, and I am convinced that if you can play bluegrass you can play anything....
jazz is tough because there are so many variants; swing, bebop, django, etc...
rock, country, classical, it doesn't matter, ......
they are all hard played right...
enjoy! |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Thanks Challoway, I thought it looked wrong when I typed Flamingo instead of Flamenco, but mom always said I was not the brightest bulb in the glovebox.
Easiest to play.....12 bar blues, the hardest thing about playing this style is creating a song that has a great sounding hook so it does not sound like a Chuck Berry song all the time or another version of Muddy Waters. |
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Location: Verona,Italy | hardest: probably neoclassical and progressive heavy metal
easiest: blues
Imo folk and country can be straightforward but also pretty intricate in their most evolved forms. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Hardest: classical in all its forms (Gregorian, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, Contemporary, Opera).
Easiest: live hard rock
Because: Classical is incredibly exacting. Each note must have a certain character, volume, sustain, decay, expression. Or else it's wrong. Only virtuosi or near virtuosi need apply.
For Hard Rock, cranking the amps to 11 covers all mistakes. Heck mistakes are encouraged! Certainly one way to encourage lousy playing is to redefine it as good playing. |
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Location: Newington, CT | On second thought, Country Artist is right: "Any style played right................. is hard..."
However, I think that you'll be able to arrive at playing certain genres sooner than others. And, with THAT as the criterion, I stand by my previous post.
Kids starting up a garage band don't start out with Mozart... |
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Location: Flahdaw | Meditation #57 is the hardest SONG I ever tried to learn. I finally gave it up when my wife ran an icepick through my brain. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | For me, it isn't so much the style of music, but rather the speed. For instance, we recently played a 4/4 song that increased about half way in to 220 beats/minute, and it required oddball passing 1/8 note chords. Reading rhythm charts at this speed for unfamiliar chords is nearly impossible for me. Best I could do was hit one out of maybe 10, or find the critical single passing note and try for it, or just mute the previous chord and let the keyboardist do it. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by dark bar:
Meditation #57 is the hardest SONG I ever tried to learn. I finally gave it up when my wife ran an icepick through my brain. Did the icepick meet with any resistance? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | probably only on the scull..... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Alan... did you just take a shot at dark bar? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | looks that way |
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Location: Flahdaw | Hey now, there's no call for that kind of behavior. |
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