“IMHO, one sign of a mediocre novelist is the use of too many words. Sometimes, WAY too many.”
The same thing is generally true in music too. For example, look at guitar players. Once you achieve a decent ability to play the instrument, it is not hard to improvise a guitar solo to most music, but it is hard to make a really good guitar solo. Most mediocre guitarists just try to show how technically good they are by filling up all the “space” in the solo with lots of notes, played very quickly.
That kind of works, and it can be impressive to someone watching them do it, but those aren’t the solos that anyone remembers. They don’t “stick” with you, because they have little emotional impact. So often people tell that type of guitarist to “play less”, because they are too focused on showing off to craft anything artful.
Well since we are turning this into guitar solo talk.....haha....Dio’s version of Dream On with Malmstein on the guitar is head and shoulders above the original.....David Ruffin’s slimmed down version of Smiling Faces (knowing his history with his former temptations group members) is an example of less being more....