Reading and playing standard music notation on a guitar, or any multi-stringed musical instrument, is more difficult than reading and playing music notation on a piano or other instruments. The reason is there are many different places on a guitar where a specific note can be played. On a piano there is only one [...]
Archive for January, 2010
A ‘model’ is something you compare something to. If I wanted to build a guitar from scratch I might choose to model my design after an existing guitar, perhaps a Gibson Les Paul. All music theory is relative which means it is based on how things are viewed in different contexts. When it gets right [...]
The song My Friend Jerome started with the idea of writing a song about a clone who kills himself because everyone is picking on him for being a clone. I have a theory that power, the ability to affect our environment, is how we prove to ourselves that we are alive. We can create a [...]