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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Martin Taylor’
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 »
Constrain Yourself
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Bad Analogies, Blues, Constraints, Hardcore, Martin Taylor, Musical Direction, Noodling, Pop, Prog Rock, Punk, Yes on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Making great music is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman digitial electronics … if you constrain your design correctly beautiful things can happen, constrain your design badly and you’re doomed to failure. When it comes to music suitable constraints could be the choice and number of instruments involved … I much prefer [...]
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 [...]
