Threads 1 to 50 of 147
I have been experimenting since the last zoom meeting with composition using but strict composition and composing using improvisation. It seems like the stuff that I write is different from what I...
I have been a huge fan of Joshua Breakstone for many years. He is also a very nice guy. He's on Facebook and if you message him he'll reply and chat with you a bit. I love the tone he gets from that...
I had a buddy in college who was obsessed with the blues. He could barely play 3 chords on the guitar, but he used to wander around the house where he and his buddies (and my girlfriend for awhile)...
If you spoke in rhyme 2 hours a day, your improvised poetry would be improve. Also, freestyle rap, slam poetry and stand up comedy are verbal improvisation.
This is also a thing. I can’t vouch for it but a friend uses it with some students and likes it. Three levels of “blues” ii-V-I licks. Sick Licks Big caution on stuff like this is that it...
Beyoncé and Taylor Swift get Spotify contracts. Nobodies like you and me are allowed to pay for our songs to be uploaded.
I thought it was in the On Don Cherry chapter. Whoopsie.
When I run into this I use amazing slow downer to adjust the pitch of the recording.
Only the A side was about a half tone sharp. There are many stories about this, but the real cause was that the 3 track machine used to record the stereo version was miscalibrated and ran too slow. ...
Tonight 5 June 2024 Mike Stern is tonight's guest.
Kendrick Lamar was apparently deep in a Coltrane phase in 2015 and you can hear it in the phrasing for sure.
I think language acquisition, fluency, vocabulary etc are just the beginning of the story. It's true that casual speaking is similar to improvisation in that the words come out and make sense often...
I love a maple board on a Strat or Tele, but I honestly don't care. Any nice guitar in my hands is going to make me happy, whether it's solid/semi/hollow ow whatever. Best to have a lot of them, I...
Doesn't work that way. There are companies like CDBaby, Orchard, Distrokid that do digital distribution, meaning you upload your music to them and they upload it to every streaming service on the...
Why is the internet out of tune, and what can you...
Today, 03:07 AM in Guitar, Amps & Gizmos