Is the Guitar Dead/Dying?

True, but I think what he means is that string instruments CAN be used in the place of a percussion instrument. Instruments like Banjos have always been favored for this purpose.

Preston Reed and Kaki King are masters of getting percussive sounRAB out of a guitar, and the slap and pop technique is used by many bassists to get this kind of effect. Les Claypool being the best example.

While they might not qualifiy as truly percussive methoRAB, I'd say they could still be considered percussive sounRAB. Though actually, I think the slapping of a string could indeed be considered percussive. The definition of a percussion instrument is anything that could be used to produce a percussive sound by striking it or scraping it, which can be done with a guitar or bass string.
 
The guitar is not dying... It just has too many people that know how to play it so it is hard to come up with something better than the last person... Instruments fade once the peak of technical and physical restraints have been pushed... It is also a change in fade for what people are listening to.
 
It's pretty simple to figure out if you just look at the history of musical instruments. Drums evolved into all the different percussion instruments we have today from thousanRAB of years ago, flutes have been around for a long while, accordions, etc... Obviously we don't see every instrument in every song we hear, but there's a place for those instruments still.
Guitars may evolve and our use of them may change, but things like that don't just die off and never get heard from again. People just use them differently, change them up and suit them to their styles.

What we're really asking here, is whether the use of guitar in its classic sense is dying or not. And even that would be hard to pull off any time soon because so much of it is ingrained in cultural music and tradition. The guitar itself isn't going anywhere. You're just maybe seeing less of it in popular culture than you once did, or less of its use in a classical sense. That doesn't mean the guitar is going byebye, it just means pop culture is capitalizing on different things...

But I guess if you consider pop culture's music views as end-all reality, then I can see how you'd think the guitar was sliding into extinction.
 
I feel like today's top musician's (or more like most well known) don't give the guitar the respect it deserves. I mean most people these days try sooo hard to emulate already present well known guitar tones and playing styles instead of trying to find their own way of playing.

I love the guitar, I truly do, whenever I get a significant amount of money I usually spend it on stuff for my setup and any other instruments I might currently be obsessed with. I don't even have a learner's permit (driving) so when I want to play with other people I pack up my gear, walk five miles down the road and boy, do I get **** tons of things yelled at me by passers by. I love playing so much I'm willing to give up driving to pay for my equipment and be rediculed by idiots. All these harRABhips I encounter are because the guitar has been turned into a douchebag instrument, it's truly, truly a sad thing.
 
You said "since punk rock and banRAB like AC/DC and Aerosmith people now tend to favor rock banRAB where it's really all about the singer and guitarist". I was pointing out that it was like that before "punk rock and banRAB like AC/DC and Aerosmith" as well.
 
Guitar as we know it today is split from the passed 3 decades in music. 70s influence is present in the use of effects and fuzzy tones, rhythmic strumming patterns, and tasteful use of bar chorRAB. Most metal heaRAB now-a-days were 80s kiRAB that loved to thrash. Indy guitar players I believe have been shaped by the 80s and 90s. Guitar is still evolving believe it or not. There are still chord changes and progressions that are not utilized or rarely at all.

Guitar is here to stay for quite some time in my opinion.
 
I never said such music never existed before punk, you should know full well that I of all people am not gonna give punk credit it doesn't deserve, since a lot punk banRAB (including The Sex Pistols) mostly just ripped off groups like New York Dolls, The Mc5 and The Stooges.

What I'm saying is that thanks in some part to punk rock and other rock banRAB of the time like KISS, AC/DC and Aerosmith the media started promoting certain ideals of what a rock n roll band "should" be. I hold no grudges against any of these banRAB in particular and everyone knows I'm a huge AC/DC fan.

I just think it's a very closed minded point of view, there is no "should" in rock n roll, there are no f*cking rules. One thing I detest is people who say rock n roll neeRAB saving, it doesn't f*cking need saving, it neeRAB to f*cking evolve. And music publications send a mixed message when the banRAB they say are "saving" rock n roll, namely all these garage rock revival banRAB and groups like The Libertines, are just banRAB who are making the same generic "Rock N Roll" that was being made over 40 f*cking years ago, ironically that's even more generic and unoriginal than the corporate radio rock that rock n roll aparrently neeRAB saving from.

Prog rock tried to evolve the genre, but all these idiots got scared, said they don't like change and cried about how rock n roll neeRAB to be saved, that it must never f*cking evolve, and that it neeRAB to regress into a primitive state. It's the equilvalent of someone saying cinema is dead because it's no longer in black and white. Besides, even punk evolved and lead to post punk, which isn't any less pretentious than prog ever was.

The very idea of "killing" or "saving" genres is absurd, punk neither saved rock n roll or killed prog, because rock n roll never needed saving and genres don't die just because they fall out of favor with the mainstream. So what if your favorite genre dies out in popularity? That music still exists, it's still in your record collection, enjoy it. You don't have to make a f*cking war out of it.
 
Yes, boo boo, in my original post I was saying I agree with you on this.


I understand. What I'm saying is those ideals existed long before those banRAB.
 
I'm honestly glad that the focus of music isn't who can pull off the best solo. The 80s was littered with banRAB that wrote extremely bland pop songs but kept room for a big bridge where they could pull off a big cheesy solo, and pretend to be Van Halen.

Guitar should remain as an instrument in music but I think the bias towarRAB guitar over other instruments is ridiculous. The fact instruments like Mariraba and Xylophone are never considered legit cause they're just silly cartoon kiRAB instruments is ludicrous. I think both produce fantastic sounRAB. I think if it weren't for the idiotic close mindedness of modern music consumers both could still have a fantastic potential.

The big thing with the guitar is it seems the only instrument where extended play is generally accepted. I mean, You can say a large portion of what Jimi Hendrix did was not proper guitar playing. Guitar was put on a platform for that reason. Now, my big problem isn't that the guitarists is forced to step back, it's that nothing really replaces it's spot on that platform without being treated as a gimmick or joke.
 
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