It's not easier, it's easier to follow the rules with the freedom of expression. I have come to surf because it is fun and you can play it your way (you don't have to hear "they didn't play it that way") you get the feel, the sound, and the song, and you have it. That's the way music is suppose to be. I don't want someone telling me it should have been an up-strum or I missed the hammer-on. A vocalist is told to make the song their own and we have the freedom to do just that. So thanks to all the surf bands that brought us back to having fun with music.
There are a few reasons I am heading this way, the sound is simple, fun, I don't have to sing, and from California, part of me.
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Is surf music easier to play than other genres by definition?
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Posted on Sep 18 2016 09:46 AM
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Posted on Sep 18 2016 03:51 PM
There are many different levels of musicianship in surf guitar just as in most genres of music. The simplest levels in surf guitar are comparable to those in country, folk, blue-grass, and blues, as I see it. I have performed surf guitar with many other guitarists facile in other genres (e.g., classic rock, blues) who could not play surf without of a lot of directed practice (e.g., glissandos, rapid alternating picking, fast chord changes, playing rapidly in general). Some simply gave up. The best mastered these aspects of technique and feel. IMO the most complex level is original improvisation (that fits the feel, is in time, and is expressive and emotive). The faster the tempo the more difficult to accomplish such improvisation--and surf guitar is particularly fast. I was drawn to the Ventures (in 1963) when I started learning guitar. Their music was comfortable to my ear because I had listened mostly to classical music, which also has a straight ahead feel. —Insanitizers! http://www.insanitizers.com Last edited: Sep 18, 2016 15:54:26 |
Well said. 
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