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PLAYING TRUTHFUL FAST PASSAGES IN BALLADS
Guitarist/Composer/Educator NEY MELLO
An audience can sense when a player is devoted and when he is not, as well as, if he is inspired or intellectually placing sterile note streams.
"Did you know that it is possible to evaluate a players level of devotion to music, if he is the type that uses 32nd notes in a ballad, by the number of 32nd notes he plays on a typical ballad.
It is also possible to evaluate if this player is also thinking instead of feeling his fast passages. The devoted player does not sound measured and overly economical. He usually sounds even a bit excessive but tremendously compelling.
The non devoted player cannot put the effort to develop his technique to the level that allows some excesses. He simply cannot play long fast passages, so he uses very short ones, that sound "placed" rather than spontaneously expressed.
The uninspired intellectually polarized player will play very measured and contrived fast passages that leave the audience frustrated, as if it was teased and then denied the promised ecstasy"
-Ney Mello
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