No music theory will make you play this solo

[Carl-Richard]

The thing about this solo is not that it's impossible to play, but that it contains some incredibly musical but not music-theoretically standard series of notes. It's what happens when you play music but you don't know or care much about music theory and you simply play what sounds good.

And sometimes that let's you play things that sound really really good and interesting but that no person who has learned music theory will ever be privied to play (because they have boxed themselves in and limited their range of accepted notes).

And that also goes into my point that music is not something you fundamentally learn in theory, you learn it in practice, you learn it by expressing what your soul hears and feels (I'll refrain from tying this to a discussion of PUA, but I also think this also applies in a big way to communication between other human beings, a.k.a. "being social"; it's something you "do" most fundamentally, and getting boxed in by theory, "getting stuck in your mind", can definitely limit you).

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This one is also sooo coool:

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(The solo at 3:05-3:35 is also pretty cool).

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[Joseph Maynor]

Trey Azagthoth is an amazing guitar player and has his own style.

[Carl-Richard]

34 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Trey Azagthoth is an amazing guitar player and has his own style.

The riffs also in Morbid Angel are so good and catchy. My favorites are in Angel Of Disease (I'm thinking of that one during the first solo), Caesar's Palace, God of Emptiness. No wonder they inspired so many metal legends (Gojira's entire early discography is essentially "Nothing Is Not"; Opeth's riffs in "Master's Apprentices" come to mind; the intro riff in Bloodbath's "Breeding Death" is so similar to the intro riff in "Immortal Rites", and likewise the intro riff in "Mock The Cross" is so similar to "Where the Slime Live").

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[Joseph Maynor]

18 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

The riffs also in Morbid Angel are so good and catchy. My favorites are in Angel Of Disease (I'm thinking of that one during the first solo), Caesar's Palace, God of Emptiness. No wonder they inspired so many metal legends (Gojira's entire early discography is essentially "Nothing Is Not"; Opeth's riffs in "Master's Apprentices" come to mind; the intro riff in Bloodbath's "Breeding Death" is so similar to the intro riff in "Immortal Rites", and likewise the intro riff in "Mock The Cross" is so similar to "Where the Slime Live").

I would love to hear instrumentals (without vocals) of their first 3 albums.  He is a genius guitar player.  

[Joseph Maynor]

Elmore James is a good example of a guitar player who has incredible style and influenced many musicians, but he is not super technical in his style either.  I consider him a genius guitar player too.