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''Guitar World'': What happens in the case of a chord like G13? <br>
:''Guitar World'': What happens in the case of a chord like G13?
''TUFNEL'': Okay. This is my other theory: If you're playing that type of music, you shouldn’t be doing it. <br>
:''TUFNEL'': Okay. This is my other theory:
''GW'': Shouldn’t be doing the Nigel Tufnel Theory of Music? <br>
If you're playing that type of music, you shouldn't be doing it.
''TUFNEL'': No. You shouldn’t be playing music. <br>
:''GW'': Shouldn't be doing the Nigel Tufnel Theory of Music?
:Nigel Tufnel, interviewed by ''Guitar World'' Magazine, April 1992}}
:''TUFNEL'': No — you shouldn't be playing
music.  
::Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, interviewed by ''Guitar World'' Magazine, April 1992


Also known as the [[Jazz paradox]], the [[Yngwie Malmsteen paradox]] addresses this irony: the power technology has to make our lives easier which, when we deploy it, winds up making them ''harder''.
Also known as the [[Jazz paradox]], the Yngwie Malmsteen {{t|paradox}} addresses this irony: the power technology has to make our lives easier which, when we deploy it, winds up making them ''harder''.


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*[[Reg tech]] and why it is so disappointing — due in part, by analogy, to [[Yngwie Malmsteen]].
*[[Reg tech]] and why it is so disappointing — due in part, by analogy, to [[Yngwie Malmsteen]].
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