Your gift?

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Delawhere

I guess I have a moderate gift. I can generally figure out chord changes to songs on guitar with a little effort, thought I do get stumped sometimes. (of course with the internet I don't have to do it much anymore). I can 'hear chords' if that makes sense to you. I love to harmonize and it comes naturally to me. I'm far from an accomplished guitar player, but I'm a passable rhythm player. I grew up studying trumpet.

I guess the reason I'm asking is because every once in a while I'll come across somebody with so much God-given natural talent that it just astounds me. I'm playing with a new bass player at church that's like that. He has perfect pitch, but not just for individual notes. He can listen to a song he's never heard before and write out the chords. And not just basic I-IV-V stuff either. I can recognize certain progressions, but this guy hears the EXACT progressions and also can determine what key it's in.

I've also played with guitarists that had great chops and could play anything, but had no idea what they were playing. They just played. From rehearsal to rehearsal, they didn't remember which key I had written out the arrangements in, because it didn't matter to them in the least. I knew a sax player like that once, too. He could barely read music, yet he could play Tower of Power stuff by ear. He could also solo like no other.

Hey, I'm not jealous. OK, I take that back. I'm very jealous, and I guess I'll just never understand it. Except for harmonizing, I have to work for almost everything I do musically. I'm truely thankful for the talent I do have, and music has brought me much joy throughout my life. I just sometimes wonder what it would be like to have an incredible gift like some do.

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:28 am

The guitar player in my current band is like that.

He has never taken a lesson in his life, and learns leads note for note (Ozzy, Malmsteen, etc.).

He writes new songs like normal people eat or sleep.......he just doesn't have to think about it. And I am not talking about coming up with a riff, he writes complete songs. And the worst part is, he will start playing something really cool, and can't even tell me what key it is in. Twisted Evil

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 5799

My gift to mankind is not making anyone else listen to me play guitar. Razz

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 10:42 am

YESS!

But seriously all I ask is that for is that things continue as they are. Maybe with a wiser republican than Bush

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 7639 Location: Florida

Lon wrote:

My gift to mankind is not making anyone else listen to me play guitar. Razz

all along I thought I was the only person making the world a better musical place by keeping my guitar playing to myself Twisted Evil

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 12:04 am

Lon wrote:

My gift to mankind is not making anyone else listen to me play guitar. Razz

THANK YOU