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EL34SLO
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Highly unlikely Ed sat around 10 hours a day practicing chopsticks to develop flawless technique. He was too busy reinventing electric guitar.
Those ten year olds going to top Ed’s classic piano / keyboard riffs with something of their own? Doubtful.
Those 10 year olds going to out Eddie woodshedding his own guitar techniques? Nope!
As a guitar player, Ed was a revolutionary savant; as a keyboardist, not so much.
Harmonically, he was very remedial. I think one of the reasons why he admired Allan Holdsworth so much was not only because of the otherworldly virtuosic guitar playing, but Allan's unique take on harmony and melody, something totally of a different sonic world than the rock idiom that he mastered, but was of limited musical expression, at least in the arena rock stature of the music he created.
I think it's tragic that both he and Jimi died too early, as they still had much to express to the world.