Scales. Same can be said of most riffs, progressions, songs. Which scale may be unknown or unanswered by the listener. Some scales even have dissonance. From a late great that wrote nothing. Yet a legacy lives.
Well absolutely. Of course, its all built on scales. But just because some cat can rip through some variation of a scale.... yeah he has huge talent in his fingers, but christ almighty, that's about a trillion miles from being a virtuoso. Tid... you can find a 25 yo in any town in America, dozens actually, that can play EVH's "Eruption" or any other classic riff and it will sound exactly like the original. Here. Tommy Morello does the same thing. He uses a trick.. Sounds great. Accentuates the song. But the genius is in the song itself. The melody... and of course... the words. queued: Scales transcend time.... but the words and the melody define the moment in time. It's within that realm that exist the true virtuoso's. -vz
Stopped reading at hint of Springsteen. Zero like for such a Phony American and rudimentary-class musician/writer of songs. To each their own. You do you.
Hahhaahah... lemmeee guess... I bet Madonna's not real high on your list either. Just a hunch. Well, lets leave politics out of it. I was just making a point about scales in songs and Morello came to mind as he does it pretty well. Sorry about the Springsteen vid. Lots of "phony Americans" out there though. As for song writing, performing skills, folks vote with pocket-books. Coming in at #16, he's bested quite a few biggies. Even Madonna. 65.5 Million albums sold. Uh-oh... that number sounds awful familiar.... How many votes did Hillary get in 2016?