{"id":601,"date":"2007-05-13T01:27:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2007\/05\/2007_05_13_0927.php"},"modified":"2017-02-08T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T03:18:02","slug":"why-i-am-not-a-virtuoso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/13\/why-i-am-not-a-virtuoso","title":{"rendered":"Why I am NOT a virtuoso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the guitarists who might be looking for reasons to quit playing &#8211; here&#8217;s something that might just do the trick hehehe.<\/p>\n<p>People like this badass Brazilian player who has awesome technique(s) [and melodic solos to boot] are the reason why I have given up trying to be a &#8220;lead guitar&#8221; player <em>looong ago<\/em> &#8211; and instead just focus on creating\/arranging\/singing songs hahahaha. It&#8217;s <em>much more<\/em> easier to be a composer\/arranger or vocalist than to develop this type of hand-dexterity.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wfqu4YEufYc\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/\/ --><!--more--><!-- \/\/ -->\n<p>Here are some more videos of him:<\/p>\n<p>This one I really am not so hot about &#8211; it was more of a showcase of technique, unlike the one above.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vom0qNmzFSs\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one of his better sounding improvs.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATub40Npxik\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>What can I say? Fat boy can <em>play!<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the guitarists who might be looking for reasons to quit playing &#8211; here&#8217;s something that might just do the trick hehehe. People like this badass Brazilian player who has awesome technique(s) [and melodic solos to boot] are the reason why I have given up trying to be a &#8220;lead guitar&#8221; player looong ago &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/13\/why-i-am-not-a-virtuoso\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I am NOT a virtuoso&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[510,595,754,803,1258],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-media","category-music","tag-guitar","tag-internet","tag-media","tag-music","tag-virtuoso"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}