Recently I have been working mainly on getting the hang of this chord-melody lark, in particular working on adding a proper bassline as opposed to just playing the roots of the chord on the beat. I’ve been taking a simple example, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and trying to make it jazzier (although maybe punkier would be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chord-melody’
Opus 1; Progress Report 1
Posted in My Music, tagged Basslines, Chord-melody, Inspiration, Musical Direction, Opus 1, Practice on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First steps in chord-melody
Posted in My Music, tagged Apocalyptica, Chord-melody, Inspiration, Martin Taylor, Musical Direction, muzak on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As mentioned a couple of times previously in this blog, I wish to move my guitar playing into a more chord-melody direction … I don’t see Opus 1 as being based on chord-melody style guitar (or rather I stuggle to see how chord-melody guitar would fit in with other ideas for my, destined to remain [...]
Inversion Perversions
Posted in My Music, tagged Berle, Chord-melody, Classical, Jazz, Martin Taylor, Music Theory, Noodling, Rhythm, Sor on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Had a moment of clarity recently with regards my guitar playing, where I could suddenly see how to play guitar and it seemed something I could achieve. What I mean is I could suddenly see how to play guitar properly, like my friends where they can just pick up a guitar and play something that [...]
