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zepp_rules
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11/08/2001 11:27 pm
though i know i shouldn't when i compare guitarists on my own, the question i ask myself is similar to what guitargod420 said: would Rhoads be able to play Van Halen's stuff and vice-versa. My answer to this question, and i've done a lot of thinking since this post started, is that while i would like think rhoads is better, however, as guitarists i would have to say they're pretty equal. HOWEVER, as musicians, i would have to say Rhoads because of all his knowlegde about music theory, etc.

Nevertheless, it is difficult to compare guitarists especially one's with dfferent styles, and since every guitarist has a different style, it's nearly impossible.
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.

--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By