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Originally Posted by Bob Ross Because the tone & the riff are inextricably linked; I agree that the tone/riff combination is all the things that you say (above).
But if you separate the tone -- i.e., the "spectral profile" -- from the part he's playing (is that even possible?) I contend it's far less unique.
Be interesting to isolate single-note instances culled from the "Money For Nothing" guitar intro, throw them up on a spectrum analyzer or TEF display, and see how different they really are from single note instances culled from, oh, say, the guitar intro to "Tumblin' Dice". Completely out of context, with no cues regarding musical phrasing or idiomatic playing technique, just isolated swatches of harmonic distribution...are they that different? |
Tone is a lot more than just static spectral content- It's how that content varies over time. And other things as well.