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Post by vikingblues on Jun 12, 2015 7:40:22 GMT
Thank you Keith - it is interesting to hear more about the way the music comes to you. Not surprised that the fingerstyle guitar has sprung from the tune creation rather than the other way round. Maybe I was just hoping it was the other way round as I'm inexperienced as such a recent convert to fingerstyle. Over 5 years of my working at playing and hearing a melody line over an existing backing in the electric genre paid off for me but there was a key to getting that process to work properly in recognising intervals between notes. While working through a course on that I rapidly found I was starting to hear things in the sense of a musician rather than as a listener (can't think of a better way to describe it), and what I was anticipating in my head was more and more in synch with what my fingers played. All on an instinctive basis, with no logical thought. I can't describe adequately what a wonderful experience getting that musical freedom was - I remind myself how lucky I was to find it. I think I was hoping that there might be a similar "key" that would help with "instinctive" composition too and would help unlock the creative process. Probably true to say that while most people can make up and sing a melody along to a backing there will be a lot fewer can make up a harmonically sensible melody on the fly, and even fewer that will be able to add in their head other parts of the arrangement once they've thought of the melody. Your comment on the difficulties of your memorising a melody on its own helps shows up how tricky it all is. Just need to plough on. Maybe one day the magic will start to happen for me! Mark
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Post by melodeous on Jun 13, 2015 15:43:03 GMT
I tend to agree with that. Barre chords are very restrictive when it comes to fingerstyle. There is something rather wonderful - when playing in open tunings - about hinting a chords, diminished and so on. Agreed. While there are times when a barre chord is useful in its entirety, I think more of their use as partials gives much more depth by appealing to open strings.
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Post by harleedea on Jun 15, 2015 12:03:41 GMT
I feel like when I play guitar, that my brain ceases to exist and my fingers grow their own mind. The most important part to writing for me is to be able to zone out just enough so my fingers can do their work, but not too much as to not remember the great things I write.
I've always had trouble with writing, as ive felt a need to write for a purpose, but the best way I can describe my music is that when I play guitar, it is nearly always when I am feeling enlightened by something or someone. I then grab the guitar straight away and let it flow out of me. Once I've written something new and different, I record a rough idea and then let it settle for a while. In that sense, the songs roots came from a spontaneous release of emotion, that wasn't stressed and wasn't forced to be released. In this way, I feel that my music has a purer connection to me, and my expression of emotion.
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Post by andyhowell on Jun 15, 2015 12:32:26 GMT
I've always had trouble with writing, as ive felt a need to write for a purpose, but the best way I can describe my music is that when I play guitar, it is nearly always when I am feeling enlightened by something or someone. I then grab the guitar straight away and let it flow out of me. Once I've written something new and different, I record a rough idea and then let it settle for a while. In that sense, the songs roots came from a spontaneous release of emotion, that wasn't stressed and wasn't forced to be released. In this way, I feel that my music has a purer connection to me, and my expression of emotion. I think the heart of my stuff comes like that but then this might just be a strong idea, a verse or a chorus. Fleshing this out needs time and discipline! I have one cracking song that has been half finished for 12 months! I need some of that inspiration to finish it!
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