The musicians who can transform me are always poets, not virtuosos, or shredders. I simply don't like shredding and virtuoso culture since it is not related to musical transcendence. This may seem contradictory coming from someone who is a virtuoso and who plays with virtuosos. There is difference between virtuosity and cold tedious technical display. Those who reach my soul may or may not be "sick" technically but their are always "sick poets!"
But I can understand why to most guitarists who have not experienced technical freedom yet, who are still trying to play what they would like to be able to play, shred culture is so pervasive.
But virtuosity per se, never was interesting to me since I was a little boy...only music mattered....the full experience...and that includes being a virtuoso, but only as a tool, so one can experience music completely.
Being technically incompetent is very limiting if one desires the full experience, but being a shredder and technique worshipper is also much worse as it becomes an egotistical perversion, that cuts one off the musical realms of absolute bliss.
Furthermore, in my experience, the worse perversion and comical self-delusion of grandeur is to be an intellectual theorist and ideologue in art. Poets do not separate themselves from art in this way. In fact any artist cannot exist if he separates himself from absolute art in this way.
So, to me it is very simple: Be a poet. Be music. Learn all you can theoretically and master it as a tool, and never think that the tool is a definition of music or formula for fabricating what cannot be fabricated intellectually.
In this way you will be free to experience the absolute.
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