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Post by vikingblues on Aug 12, 2019 7:31:22 GMT
This is maybe too random and hippy to be much use (or interest). Based on a lesson suggested by David Wallimann (not Walliams!) which was based around electric guitar but I feel acoustic works as well.
It's an approach involving practising scales, but not by just playing up and down scales and dealing with the onset of deep despair at how dull and unmusical the whole process is. The drone idea is to have player and guitar interaction - a blank canvas of a single note drone to attract everything else played.
Feelings created by the type of sounds from the notes being selected when used with the drone note. Establishing a mood. A colour set built from the scale notes. Minor v Major, the various modes within those, Dissonant v Stable. Finishing notes in a phrase that are full stops or a comma with the music picking up from it and continuing. Which notes to play, and which scale - depends what sort of story to be told.
Music is an interaction. Player and the guitar. Player and listener.
Examples in E ...... with a capo at fret 2 in DADGAD.
Phrygian
Aeolian (Natural Minor)
Mixolydian
Note how playing the F, so close to the root E, immediately gives Phrygian flavour and encourages slower more mysterious mood. Aeolian finds things getting more folksy. Away from minor key melancholy, Mixolydian prompts faster pace and twiddles!
I find it's quite fun to do regardless of whether it helps learning and using scales.
Mark
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Post by ocarolan on Aug 12, 2019 8:24:22 GMT
It's Mark the film and TV soundtrack writer back in action. Excellent, and interesting too!
Keith
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Aug 13, 2019 21:02:10 GMT
Post by vikingblues on Aug 13, 2019 21:02:10 GMT
Thanks Keith , and you've got a point there Keith about the soundtrack territory - a genre heavily leaning towards mood. Mr Wallimann and his methods have a lot to do with my interest in mood over technique. He is very keen on pupils trying to express their own feelings and using their own interpretations. I seem to get on best with that sort of teacher. Partly I am sure, in that it suits my basic laziness and fear of hard work. Mark
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