Hello everybody
my name is Sebastian Albert (nickname gomez) - and I am really thrilled to have discovered this fantastic site.
For many years, my personality was sort of divided in two halves: Learning, studying and playing classical guitar and playing bass in rock bands. Aside from unclear phases concerning the way to conduct my life (music had a meaning and a promise), this was made possible by taping my fingers to protect my nails and fingertips.
Here and there dipping in into the music of Pat Metheny, Fareed Haque and others in the improvisational realm.
Only after over 25 years of doing this I (and the end of my band and family „Eaten by Sheiks“ I decided to „fill the gap“ between acoustic guitar and electric bass and to get serious about playing electric guitar with a pick.
The main misterious question in all of my searching with teachers, You Tube, Courses etc. was what to do with the pick? Especially: Why is my wrist movement so slow? Had it something to do with playing finger style, especially in a quite tense way on classical guitar and bass?
In the last years; I had the chance to play professionally (as a sub) in theatres for productions as West Side Story, Rocky Horror or most recently, Lazarus by David Bowie. I just get away with „throwing in everything I got“ - and for sure, this music is not about playing crazy guitarologies (except some icing on the cake - bars and showing off before soundcheck).
And by the way, Pat Metheny was always a hero for me - mostly for singing his song and creating a musical environment that fit perfectly to what he wanted and what he could do, and it fit perfectly to the time he lived in.
So, in this sense, this will be my biggest obligation for the future: build my own way of playing and creating a musical world that is my home. To stay away from the internet and starting to listen deeply inside.
But before that - I have to carry away as much as possible from this well of slant happiness!! :-))
Thank you for your amazing work and dedication.