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Monday, January 23, 2012
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Alternate Guitar Tuning: EACGBE
-This guitar tuning is basically the 4th string tuned down a whole step.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Relating the mixer and playlist in FL studio
WARNING: This blog post is awfully long. Please skip if it is not for you.
In the last fl studio post I had said that i'd put up links for mastering tutorials
here they are: Useful video tutorials for learning mastering on FL Studio:
compression and eq settings - mastering and increasing vocals quality
adding effects to vocals - it says just delay but it practically shows everything you'll require.
layering many instances of vocals - it teaches you how to move around audio clips in the playlist and how to slice them and cut them.
This link talks a bit about Mixer and playlist
Ok, now lets get back to even more basic stuff that you'll need to make a mix.
-If you have a song that you have recorded in separate audio clips, you will want to mix the tracks together and align them properly.
1)Firstly to load a track ,just find it in your browser and drag it in the playlist.
When you do that, a channel is generated in the 'pattern maker' for each corresponding audio clip.
2)You can move around the tracks and slice them as desired ,as taught in the vocal layering video link given at the top.
3)Now, to add effects we use the mixer.
A mixer is basically many audio clip players which send their signal from one to the next to the next track, till the signal reaches the main 'master' signal. Its a chain of signals.
- Open the mixer.
4)We will now link the tracks that we have drawn in the playlist ,with each corresponding channel of the mixer.
- To do this,
-select one audio clip from the pattern maker by clicking on it (a green led lights up).
-Then go to the mixer, click on track1. right click in the upper part of that slot, click 'link selected channels > to this track'.
-Thats it, your clip is now in the mixer track.
Note*- click on the umbrella like or fat arrow shaped icon on the bottom of that track. When it is lit up, it means that it 'sends' its signal to the next track. All the used tracks we use have to be lit up in that. or the signals wont be considered.
5)to add effects,
In each track track on the right side, you have open slots where you can drag effect makers from ctrl+F8 menu.
- Similarly, select the next audio clip in the pattern maker.
click track 2 in the mixer. and link the track to the clip.
Remember that the audio clips in pattern maker are linked with the playlist.
-Anything thats played in the playlist is the final mix. Whether sliced or not or moved or whatever.
-Patternmaker is just like a register that has names of audio clips. we can use pattern maker to link them to mixer. thats all.
-once you have adjusted your tracks ,aligned them in the playlist ,added effects, your mix is ready to be heard
make sure the 'song' mode is on , so you can hear everything together. and play.
select file>export .and make an mp3.
Your mix is ready!
In the last fl studio post I had said that i'd put up links for mastering tutorials
here they are: Useful video tutorials for learning mastering on FL Studio:
compression and eq settings - mastering and increasing vocals quality
adding effects to vocals - it says just delay but it practically shows everything you'll require.
layering many instances of vocals - it teaches you how to move around audio clips in the playlist and how to slice them and cut them.
This link talks a bit about Mixer and playlist
Ok, now lets get back to even more basic stuff that you'll need to make a mix.
-If you have a song that you have recorded in separate audio clips, you will want to mix the tracks together and align them properly.
1)Firstly to load a track ,just find it in your browser and drag it in the playlist.
When you do that, a channel is generated in the 'pattern maker' for each corresponding audio clip.
2)You can move around the tracks and slice them as desired ,as taught in the vocal layering video link given at the top.
3)Now, to add effects we use the mixer.
A mixer is basically many audio clip players which send their signal from one to the next to the next track, till the signal reaches the main 'master' signal. Its a chain of signals.
- Open the mixer.
4)We will now link the tracks that we have drawn in the playlist ,with each corresponding channel of the mixer.
- To do this,
-select one audio clip from the pattern maker by clicking on it (a green led lights up).
-Then go to the mixer, click on track1. right click in the upper part of that slot, click 'link selected channels > to this track'.
-Thats it, your clip is now in the mixer track.
Note*- click on the umbrella like or fat arrow shaped icon on the bottom of that track. When it is lit up, it means that it 'sends' its signal to the next track. All the used tracks we use have to be lit up in that. or the signals wont be considered.
5)to add effects,
In each track track on the right side, you have open slots where you can drag effect makers from ctrl+F8 menu.
- Similarly, select the next audio clip in the pattern maker.
click track 2 in the mixer. and link the track to the clip.
Remember that the audio clips in pattern maker are linked with the playlist.
-Anything thats played in the playlist is the final mix. Whether sliced or not or moved or whatever.
-Patternmaker is just like a register that has names of audio clips. we can use pattern maker to link them to mixer. thats all.
-once you have adjusted your tracks ,aligned them in the playlist ,added effects, your mix is ready to be heard
make sure the 'song' mode is on , so you can hear everything together. and play.
select file>export .and make an mp3.
Your mix is ready!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Using Vocals in FL Studio
- The process of using vocal tracks in FL studio is pretty straight forward,
-you simply drag the track in the upper half of the playlist.
-In the pattern maker a channel for the audio track appears.
-By clicking on the channel a control panel to adjust the vocal track appears.
-from there you can choose to 'edit' the track to open it in edison.
Once you are in edison,
- the same track gets opened in a channel of the sampler, its parallel
and edison is open within a slot of that channel
-Ctrl+f8 to select limiter and parametric EQ2 and drag them in the channel slots of the mixer.
-Whatever adjustments you do to them get automatically applied to the audio track in the playlist
-When you render the file during 'export', all of this gets applied.
*Everything is linked automatically.
You can use multiple audio tracks in mixing ,just by dragging them in the playlist and clipping them using slice and delete or moving them around to match them.
To layer vocals , we just match the 's','k' sounds. which have more attack.
Every audio track can be edited separately.
Every audio track can be sliced into parts.
I will upload links to reference videos soon.
Image line itself publishes good tutorials on its channel. You can search for videos related to 'vocals'
Till then
Cbszaxzhao
-you simply drag the track in the upper half of the playlist.
-In the pattern maker a channel for the audio track appears.
-By clicking on the channel a control panel to adjust the vocal track appears.
-from there you can choose to 'edit' the track to open it in edison.
Once you are in edison,
- the same track gets opened in a channel of the sampler, its parallel
and edison is open within a slot of that channel
-Ctrl+f8 to select limiter and parametric EQ2 and drag them in the channel slots of the mixer.
-Whatever adjustments you do to them get automatically applied to the audio track in the playlist
-When you render the file during 'export', all of this gets applied.
*Everything is linked automatically.
You can use multiple audio tracks in mixing ,just by dragging them in the playlist and clipping them using slice and delete or moving them around to match them.
To layer vocals , we just match the 's','k' sounds. which have more attack.
Every audio track can be edited separately.
Every audio track can be sliced into parts.
I will upload links to reference videos soon.
Image line itself publishes good tutorials on its channel. You can search for videos related to 'vocals'
Till then
Cbszaxzhao
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Jazz Music - An introduction
Jazz music can do a lot to you as a person. It opens you up. It opens up your ears.
When you start listening to jazz , you become more aware of musical colour and intervals.
There is harmonic complexity in jazz. Means:
Harmony means multiple notes sounded together at the same time
Melody means a serial progression of notes preceding and succeeding each other.
These two are the two main components of jazz.
Jazz also treats bass as a separate entity, so thats another great thing we become aware of.
If you want to train your ears as a musician, listening to jazz is a great way to supplement and speed up your training.
Btw, just as a blooper or interesting fact(whichever way you wanna look at it). In the original Autumn Leaves track, you can hear Joe Pass breathing deeply near his guitar. His breathing is pretty deep, that means he's extremely relaxed. Cuz he plays some really fast passages in there.
If you're very good at music theory and want to explore more of it,
Jazz is for you.
There's plenty of music theory in it.
In fact, Jazz includes the most advanced music theory of all genres.
Smart Sentence: You'll get to learn about tritone substiutions and coltrane changes in jazz.
Lots of modes and lots of chromatics.
Rock and Jazz are the two genres that are built off of on the spot improvisations heavily.
Jazz makes your ears bigger, and calms you down from within.
Jazz makes you listen to itself. It makes your ears sensitive.
Some cool jazz tunes are:
Wes Montgomery - Four on Six
Joe Pass - Autumn Leaves
John Coltrane - Giant steps
If you want to get started with Jazz, you have to know block chords.
These videos teach you some commonly used block chords, in the style of Wes Montgomery.
part1
part2
part3
part4
When you start listening to jazz , you become more aware of musical colour and intervals.
There is harmonic complexity in jazz. Means:
Harmony means multiple notes sounded together at the same time
Melody means a serial progression of notes preceding and succeeding each other.
These two are the two main components of jazz.
Jazz also treats bass as a separate entity, so thats another great thing we become aware of.
If you want to train your ears as a musician, listening to jazz is a great way to supplement and speed up your training.
Btw, just as a blooper or interesting fact(whichever way you wanna look at it). In the original Autumn Leaves track, you can hear Joe Pass breathing deeply near his guitar. His breathing is pretty deep, that means he's extremely relaxed. Cuz he plays some really fast passages in there.
If you're very good at music theory and want to explore more of it,
Jazz is for you.
There's plenty of music theory in it.
In fact, Jazz includes the most advanced music theory of all genres.
Smart Sentence: You'll get to learn about tritone substiutions and coltrane changes in jazz.
Lots of modes and lots of chromatics.
Rock and Jazz are the two genres that are built off of on the spot improvisations heavily.
Jazz makes your ears bigger, and calms you down from within.
Jazz makes you listen to itself. It makes your ears sensitive.
Some cool jazz tunes are:
Wes Montgomery - Four on Six
Joe Pass - Autumn Leaves
John Coltrane - Giant steps
If you want to get started with Jazz, you have to know block chords.
These videos teach you some commonly used block chords, in the style of Wes Montgomery.
part1
part2
part3
part4
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Santana
Carlos Santana's music may sound very arousing at the first hearing.
But the fact is that that is not the primary intention behind his music. Carlos Santana is a very spiritual person.
Its easy to think of him as a latino man with a lot of inclination towards their 'amor' culture. His music is not just that really.
He too , like hendrix was just like the others in the 60s.. heavily doped ,and at the woodstock.
- His influences are not too exotic like we would imagine, some acclaimed musicians from latin america. No.
- He was very heavily influenced by BB King and Wes Montgomery.
- But he wanted to take a step away from being loud, he was more inclined to the sounds like a sax would produce or a violin.
- The most amazing part about Santana's music is that his guitar songs are not just tunes.
He writes poems for them, with tunes.
- What we get to hear in the tracks is his guitar, singing those poems.
His song Europa
is a poem about a sister of his friend who used to take mind expanding experiences just like them but couldn't cope up with it.
She was going hysterical, so she started to bug out. And Carlos made a song for her on the spot called 'Mushroom lady'. "Mushroom lady's coming to town. She's gonna have everyone around"..to bring the girl back.
Video
Here's Santana talking about it and showing how to play Europa in his music room. Pretty cool ha, he's wearing a Jimi Hendrix shirt.
The song bella
was for his daughter Stella, and he explains that it was inspired by the sound of the oceans waves, cuz they had a house near the ocean at that time.
And you can really imagine the ocean as you listen to that song. We can see that his mind has really expanded :)
He says that sometimes he just sits and listens to the water, and we can get songs from just that.
The beautiful song Samba Pa Ti
was also a poem that goes like
"Through every step in life you find, freedom from within. And if your mind should understand, woman love your man. Cuz everybody is searching for eternal peace. End is there waiting for you. All you have to do is share".
- He wrote this when he saw a man in distress who had a saxophone in one hand and a bottle of alcohol in his back pocket and he couldn't make up his mind which one to put into his mouth, he was swaying between both, from one hand to the other.
Video
Its all here, as he explains it.Samba pa ti
You get to learn a lot about guitar expression , the things you have to have in your mind as a guitarist, you get to learn this just by watching him speak. About masculine and feminine phrasing, and volume and tone control. Use of treble notes.
Like he says,
-everybody can learn scales and learn to play fast. But the passion is important. remember the first time you watched Jimi Hendrix. You could hear the guitar even with the volume turned off. And they didn't practice in front of a mirror or anything. They feel the notes as they play.
This is a very good interview of his to watch for a learning guitarist
Links to songs:
Curacion
Samba pa ti
This is a transcript of a Santana interview where he talks about Jimi Hendrix
But the fact is that that is not the primary intention behind his music. Carlos Santana is a very spiritual person.
Its easy to think of him as a latino man with a lot of inclination towards their 'amor' culture. His music is not just that really.
He too , like hendrix was just like the others in the 60s.. heavily doped ,and at the woodstock.
- His influences are not too exotic like we would imagine, some acclaimed musicians from latin america. No.
- He was very heavily influenced by BB King and Wes Montgomery.
- But he wanted to take a step away from being loud, he was more inclined to the sounds like a sax would produce or a violin.
- The most amazing part about Santana's music is that his guitar songs are not just tunes.
He writes poems for them, with tunes.
- What we get to hear in the tracks is his guitar, singing those poems.
His song Europa
is a poem about a sister of his friend who used to take mind expanding experiences just like them but couldn't cope up with it.
She was going hysterical, so she started to bug out. And Carlos made a song for her on the spot called 'Mushroom lady'. "Mushroom lady's coming to town. She's gonna have everyone around"..to bring the girl back.
Video
Here's Santana talking about it and showing how to play Europa in his music room. Pretty cool ha, he's wearing a Jimi Hendrix shirt.
The song bella
was for his daughter Stella, and he explains that it was inspired by the sound of the oceans waves, cuz they had a house near the ocean at that time.
And you can really imagine the ocean as you listen to that song. We can see that his mind has really expanded :)
He says that sometimes he just sits and listens to the water, and we can get songs from just that.
The beautiful song Samba Pa Ti
was also a poem that goes like
"Through every step in life you find, freedom from within. And if your mind should understand, woman love your man. Cuz everybody is searching for eternal peace. End is there waiting for you. All you have to do is share".
- He wrote this when he saw a man in distress who had a saxophone in one hand and a bottle of alcohol in his back pocket and he couldn't make up his mind which one to put into his mouth, he was swaying between both, from one hand to the other.
Video
Its all here, as he explains it.Samba pa ti
You get to learn a lot about guitar expression , the things you have to have in your mind as a guitarist, you get to learn this just by watching him speak. About masculine and feminine phrasing, and volume and tone control. Use of treble notes.
Like he says,
-everybody can learn scales and learn to play fast. But the passion is important. remember the first time you watched Jimi Hendrix. You could hear the guitar even with the volume turned off. And they didn't practice in front of a mirror or anything. They feel the notes as they play.
This is a very good interview of his to watch for a learning guitarist
Links to songs:
Curacion
Samba pa ti
This is a transcript of a Santana interview where he talks about Jimi Hendrix
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Falling short of new things in guitar
WARNING: Awfully Long post. Please skip if its not for you.
-As a guitarist, it is a great thing to constantly push yourself as regards creativity.
-Even if you are a well trained guitarist who knows all the scales, new things can still be learned.
-There are many runs that you can derive from a scale.
if you exhaust all the runs that can possibly done on a scale Mix them up. You can skip runs, combine runs, jump from runs to other ones to create new music.
-When you pay more attention to the blues scale, you will begin to merge the scale's layout with other diatonic scales layouts,
and you will be able to quickly jump from any diatonic scale to the blues scale.
Its like a system we develop in our mind , either we are in the scales mode, or we are in the blues mode.
BLUES <-------> DIATONIC
-When you get practiced at jumping from modals to blues, and the other way round.
You might wanna focus on the blues scale more
. Because we are still used to playing the blues scale across through the patterns, then finding a link and moving to the next pattern.
-You can invent all sorts of runs.
-To improve your runs
1 Just pick the part of the scale at which you are the strongest,
2 and then find your weakest part closest to that part.
3 And then make your own run from the strong part to the weaker part.
This way we generate new new patterns to work with, we discover strange new sounds we've never heard on tracks.
Chkytrstxzao Readers
-As a guitarist, it is a great thing to constantly push yourself as regards creativity.
-Even if you are a well trained guitarist who knows all the scales, new things can still be learned.
-There are many runs that you can derive from a scale.
if you exhaust all the runs that can possibly done on a scale Mix them up. You can skip runs, combine runs, jump from runs to other ones to create new music.
-When you pay more attention to the blues scale, you will begin to merge the scale's layout with other diatonic scales layouts,
and you will be able to quickly jump from any diatonic scale to the blues scale.
Its like a system we develop in our mind , either we are in the scales mode, or we are in the blues mode.
BLUES <-------> DIATONIC
-When you get practiced at jumping from modals to blues, and the other way round.
You might wanna focus on the blues scale more
. Because we are still used to playing the blues scale across through the patterns, then finding a link and moving to the next pattern.
-You can invent all sorts of runs.
-To improve your runs
1 Just pick the part of the scale at which you are the strongest,
2 and then find your weakest part closest to that part.
3 And then make your own run from the strong part to the weaker part.
This way we generate new new patterns to work with, we discover strange new sounds we've never heard on tracks.
Chkytrstxzao Readers
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
How to build guitar amps
WARNING: This post is awfully long and boasts the intellect of the author. Please skip if its not for you.
This article is about getting started with building your own amps and a few links.
Today I connected a 3 foot theater speaker to my guitar. And it really changed the way the guitar sounds because of the cabinet.
-The cabinet is a really important thing that contributes to a lot of the sound produced by the amp.
-After all, all an amp has is a small circuit and a speaker, enclosed in a large wooden box,
-The wooden box is what makes the sound ring. The dimensions on that box matter and the quality of its material matters.
-Like Kerry king doesn't use a 20foot long cabinet as an amplifier, but he uses a 3x6 array of smaller amps for slayer concerts.
-The wooden box rings, and gives a quality to the sound. as opposed to a guitar connected to a sterio system which has a separate woofer and 4 more separate speakers.
- As long as The box, is not there, the feel is not there.
- Tube amps are said to produce an awesome sound. But tubes are expensive and hard to find.
Good luck.
This article is about getting started with building your own amps and a few links.
Today I connected a 3 foot theater speaker to my guitar. And it really changed the way the guitar sounds because of the cabinet.
-The cabinet is a really important thing that contributes to a lot of the sound produced by the amp.
-After all, all an amp has is a small circuit and a speaker, enclosed in a large wooden box,
-The wooden box is what makes the sound ring. The dimensions on that box matter and the quality of its material matters.
-Like Kerry king doesn't use a 20foot long cabinet as an amplifier, but he uses a 3x6 array of smaller amps for slayer concerts.
-The wooden box rings, and gives a quality to the sound. as opposed to a guitar connected to a sterio system which has a separate woofer and 4 more separate speakers.
- As long as The box, is not there, the feel is not there.
- Tube amps are said to produce an awesome sound. But tubes are expensive and hard to find.
Tubes lit up inside a Guitar Tube Amp.
To build an amp, first of all
-If you are building an amp from scratch, you will have to find schematics or layouts of amplifiers.
-If you search http://www.google.com/patents">google patents for fender or Marshall, you'll get their circuit diagrams. Or you can look at sites which feature DIY projects.
-This is a good site called http://runoffgroove.com/ .
-It features various amp projects and building other guitar peripherals , like drives, pedals ,etc.
-Once you are satisfied with the description, you should open the ckt dig. and list out the parts you need,
-buy them or buy a kit that comes as a bundle of essential parts , and build it like the dig.
A little knowledge has to be acquired to build circuits.
Thats it.
Building amps a pretty good thing to do, to get a good insight of your hardware and develop much appreciation for good hardware.
Good luck.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Can't think of a new song. What to do:
-As a songwriter, songs can come to you anytime
Its hard to believe when it hasn't happened to you, but they literally can come anytime
-This week I was at an all time low in songwriting, and suddenly today a good song came to me. With lyrics with progression.
And the compositions that were sounding bad last week are sounding good now.
-Its good to preserve your crappy compositions. They might not really be that crappy.
Coming up with modal solos where there may be no need at all is quite useless.
Sometimes , you just cant have modal solos.
Conversely , You can't use blues solos everytime.
Not all solos can be composed free from scales.
And every solo can't be composed based on a scale.
Best way: Jam
Mind jam, person jam, guitar jam and mix fruit jam.
This blog was powered by: Blink 182 - Wishing well
Its hard to believe when it hasn't happened to you, but they literally can come anytime
-This week I was at an all time low in songwriting, and suddenly today a good song came to me. With lyrics with progression.
And the compositions that were sounding bad last week are sounding good now.
-Its good to preserve your crappy compositions. They might not really be that crappy.
Coming up with modal solos where there may be no need at all is quite useless.
Sometimes , you just cant have modal solos.
Conversely , You can't use blues solos everytime.
Not all solos can be composed free from scales.
And every solo can't be composed based on a scale.
Best way: Jam
Mind jam, person jam, guitar jam and mix fruit jam.
This blog was powered by: Blink 182 - Wishing well
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Bored of playing guitar/ Sound bad at guitar. What to do :
Having a bad phase in guitar playing.
Every good guitarist goes through bad phases while learning guitar.
Pro musicians have it too. An unproductive phaze, when they aren't coming up with anything new, or anything good enough.
Q:What is a bad phase?
A bad phaze is
when your mind is way ahead of your level of playing, you are expecting too much from yourself.
-Like you might know all the scales but the phrasing is not turning out right. You wanted it to be like Carlos Santana.
-Or you might know the scale but your hand co-ordination is under-developed.
-Or many other things, where you're expecting a lot and are unhappy about your sound.
Q:What happens in a bad phase?
-You are just aware that the thing is not sounding good, or it is sounding 'repetitive'.
-Its pretty compelling to give up practicing or think that maybe you're just not meant for it.
Its all right.
But its all right for such a phaze to occur once in a while.
It helps you re-evaluate yourself as a guitarist and your technique.
-Because there's an impression you have about yourself as a guitarist or as any musician when you are playing an instrument. You subconsciously visualize yourself climbing a mountain ,that you're becoming more and more perfect, getting closer to the top.
-Once in a while when you play a little better you get a feeling you're closer to perfect.
But when a bad phaze occurs, this feeling gets disturbed. And you feel, I was close to perfect, then why am I sounding so bad now?
Never Perfect, Always evolving.
You're never perfect. You are always evolving, and sometimes your mind gets stuck in a pattern and you're just finding it hard to break out of it on the fretboard.
I've been through such phazes many times. And its pretty depressing.
We all wanna sound good.
How To deal with it:
- take a step backward.
-listen to music and I just play the vocal melodies on the guitar. By ear.
-keep doing that for a couple of days. And you will have covered many many songs vocals by the time you're out of it.
-eventually you get new ideas in soloing and phrasing.
-It also is very useful in ear training. You get to know how intervals lie on the fretboard.
Also
-keep practicing your alternate picking, to get the co-ordination right.
- Use different combinations, usually 3 notes on 2 strings is a good one to start with.
Practice inner strokes (inner picking).
To build strength for when you have a pattern which starts from an -up. And that means I literally keep playing just two strings over and over.
We all know that there are endless possibilities in music. And like Joe Satriani says, without a little imperfection, music would sound too melodic and very monotonous.
If you keep upto it, the phaze gets over before you know it and you are back onto it and learning new things.
A bad musician is only one who doesn't know his music.
So lay low, and jam again later.
Chxzao.
Every good guitarist goes through bad phases while learning guitar.
Pro musicians have it too. An unproductive phaze, when they aren't coming up with anything new, or anything good enough.
Q:What is a bad phase?
A bad phaze is
when your mind is way ahead of your level of playing, you are expecting too much from yourself.
-Like you might know all the scales but the phrasing is not turning out right. You wanted it to be like Carlos Santana.
-Or you might know the scale but your hand co-ordination is under-developed.
-Or many other things, where you're expecting a lot and are unhappy about your sound.
Q:What happens in a bad phase?
-You are just aware that the thing is not sounding good, or it is sounding 'repetitive'.
-Its pretty compelling to give up practicing or think that maybe you're just not meant for it.
Its all right.
But its all right for such a phaze to occur once in a while.
It helps you re-evaluate yourself as a guitarist and your technique.
-Because there's an impression you have about yourself as a guitarist or as any musician when you are playing an instrument. You subconsciously visualize yourself climbing a mountain ,that you're becoming more and more perfect, getting closer to the top.
-Once in a while when you play a little better you get a feeling you're closer to perfect.
But when a bad phaze occurs, this feeling gets disturbed. And you feel, I was close to perfect, then why am I sounding so bad now?
Never Perfect, Always evolving.
You're never perfect. You are always evolving, and sometimes your mind gets stuck in a pattern and you're just finding it hard to break out of it on the fretboard.
I've been through such phazes many times. And its pretty depressing.
We all wanna sound good.
How To deal with it:
- take a step backward.
-listen to music and I just play the vocal melodies on the guitar. By ear.
-keep doing that for a couple of days. And you will have covered many many songs vocals by the time you're out of it.
-eventually you get new ideas in soloing and phrasing.
-It also is very useful in ear training. You get to know how intervals lie on the fretboard.
Also
-keep practicing your alternate picking, to get the co-ordination right.
- Use different combinations, usually 3 notes on 2 strings is a good one to start with.
Practice inner strokes (inner picking).
To build strength for when you have a pattern which starts from an -up. And that means I literally keep playing just two strings over and over.
We all know that there are endless possibilities in music. And like Joe Satriani says, without a little imperfection, music would sound too melodic and very monotonous.
If you keep upto it, the phaze gets over before you know it and you are back onto it and learning new things.
A bad musician is only one who doesn't know his music.
So lay low, and jam again later.
Chxzao.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The prince of Dorian: David Gilmour.
This is a useless post that brags that I know the dorian mode in guitar.
David Gilmour
practically redefines the Dorian mode in such a cool 'rock' way
Every time you get high on a pink floyd solo, chances are pretty high that you were high on the sound of Dorian Mode
He is The Prince of Dorian in Rock
Who could make an intro riff of a song named "Sorrow "in Dorian make it feel like a cool kind of sorrow?
Its in dorian , yes.
His style of mixing up blues with Dorian is a pure David Gilmour trademark.
Carlos Santana
is another guy who extensively uses the Dorian mode.
Because of which, his solos and his music overall sounds so
romantic and anxious.. the typical characteristics of the dorian sound.
David Gilmour.
Remember when he was young, He shun like the sun.
That man is out there. And he's sure as hell alive \,,/
David Gilmour
practically redefines the Dorian mode in such a cool 'rock' way
Every time you get high on a pink floyd solo, chances are pretty high that you were high on the sound of Dorian Mode
He is The Prince of Dorian in Rock
Who could make an intro riff of a song named "Sorrow "in Dorian make it feel like a cool kind of sorrow?
Its in dorian , yes.
His style of mixing up blues with Dorian is a pure David Gilmour trademark.
Carlos Santana
is another guy who extensively uses the Dorian mode.
Because of which, his solos and his music overall sounds so
romantic and anxious.. the typical characteristics of the dorian sound.
David Gilmour.
Remember when he was young, He shun like the sun.
That man is out there. And he's sure as hell alive \,,/
Monday, October 24, 2011
Darrell Abbott tribute.
This post talks about how I love Pantera's solos.
I have always been a big fan of pantera's lead guitarist because their solos were real.
Darrell Abbot was a legendary guitarist who made the solo of cemetary gates possible.
Facts:
He was a fan of Joe Satriani, and started playing guitar because of Black Sabbath.
Cemetary Gates, Walk, Drag the waters, Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath's cover.
Shit they kick ass.
5 minutes alone too.
His Cemetary Gates solo:
Every time you listen to it For those 40 seconds, you lift off from this earth, Head feels light.
For those 40 seconds that man is God and you feel connected.
That is truly one moment when you can not feel my head, you don't breathe, You're not alive, You're just not human
Because You're on another planet. Planet Caravan.
He had a KISS tattoo on his chest signed by Ace Frehley. .
R.I.P Dimebag Darrell.
I have always been a big fan of pantera's lead guitarist because their solos were real.
Darrell Abbot was a legendary guitarist who made the solo of cemetary gates possible.
Facts:
He was a fan of Joe Satriani, and started playing guitar because of Black Sabbath.
Cemetary Gates, Walk, Drag the waters, Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath's cover.
Shit they kick ass.
5 minutes alone too.
His Cemetary Gates solo:
Every time you listen to it For those 40 seconds, you lift off from this earth, Head feels light.
For those 40 seconds that man is God and you feel connected.
That is truly one moment when you can not feel my head, you don't breathe, You're not alive, You're just not human
Because You're on another planet. Planet Caravan.
He had a KISS tattoo on his chest signed by Ace Frehley. .
Thursday, October 20, 2011
How to develop Guitar Vibrato
-Vibratos are unique to every player and its almost entirely defining you as a player.
-If you are reading this, you are already on your way to doing a good job out of it.
This article is to help you develop a good vibrato.
-the key to develop a good vibrato is - paying attention to it a lot.
-Constantly listen to vibratos of other guitarists, and try to replicate the sound of their vibratos.
-Focus on sound more than hands
Some vibrato styles:
Like B.B King's vibratos are bee sting vibratos. They have a very high frequency of oscillation and they sound like a bee. He uses only one finger to create such vibratos and the remaining fingers are completely off the fretboard, even the thumb is off the fretboard.
Jimi Hendrix has similar vibrato, except that his vibratos are very wide. He really digs his fingers into those vibratos.
David Gilmour has a slow vibrato because he uses three fingers to bend the strings. But because of his long sustain on the notes, they are very effective in the sound and feel.
-Try to reproduce such vibratos, so that over the time, you will develop your own way of bending strings and creating that sound.
Practice
Learning to bend to pitch
This good video shows bending exercises that you can practice everyday. I recommend watching that video, it explains some intricate mechanics related with bending and it also covers bending with vibrato.
Vibratos with bends
To do a vibrato on bends, like Eric Clapton and David Gilmour and all the other great players, the method of vibrato is a little different from normal vibrato.
When you bend a string, the string is tensed up and it produces pressure on your finger. We use this pressure to do our vibrato. We slightly release the bend and then bend again to pitch.
Do this slowly until you get the hang of it. Using the thumb as pivot, the speed of vibrato can be increased with practice.
This video shows that method to bend with vibrato.
The end.
-If you are reading this, you are already on your way to doing a good job out of it.
This article is to help you develop a good vibrato.
-the key to develop a good vibrato is - paying attention to it a lot.
-Constantly listen to vibratos of other guitarists, and try to replicate the sound of their vibratos.
-Focus on sound more than hands
Some vibrato styles:
Like B.B King's vibratos are bee sting vibratos. They have a very high frequency of oscillation and they sound like a bee. He uses only one finger to create such vibratos and the remaining fingers are completely off the fretboard, even the thumb is off the fretboard.
Jimi Hendrix has similar vibrato, except that his vibratos are very wide. He really digs his fingers into those vibratos.
David Gilmour has a slow vibrato because he uses three fingers to bend the strings. But because of his long sustain on the notes, they are very effective in the sound and feel.
-Try to reproduce such vibratos, so that over the time, you will develop your own way of bending strings and creating that sound.
Practice
Learning to bend to pitch
This good video shows bending exercises that you can practice everyday. I recommend watching that video, it explains some intricate mechanics related with bending and it also covers bending with vibrato.
Vibratos with bends
To do a vibrato on bends, like Eric Clapton and David Gilmour and all the other great players, the method of vibrato is a little different from normal vibrato.
When you bend a string, the string is tensed up and it produces pressure on your finger. We use this pressure to do our vibrato. We slightly release the bend and then bend again to pitch.
Do this slowly until you get the hang of it. Using the thumb as pivot, the speed of vibrato can be increased with practice.
This video shows that method to bend with vibrato.
The end.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Time - Signatures
This article boasts the author's knowledge about Time Signatures in Music.
Now if you're a drummer, this is one topic that must have come to you right after you learned your very basics.
And then you must have probably admired how god drummers are able to play poly-rythms, where one hand is playing a 5/4 and the other hand is playing a 7/8...Woahh!
Time signatures are an indispensable tool in the life of a drummer.
And kudos to those of you good guitarists who have been keen on taking up this topic to an advanced level.
Benefits:
-Time signatures are a very vital thing if you have anything to do with rythms.
-It is something that you can use to make things sound different , to give a different feel to your parts.
-Sometimes when a song has a completely different rythm structure, it really stands out.
Just so that you know.
Just look how nice this song feels.
Just to start you up, the intro starts with 7/8 immediately followed by 3/8 followed by 6/8 followed by a 4/8. This is one measure. So thats 20 ,8th notes a measure for the intro.
The "straight hair or curls" part is in 13/4 (its 3 and then 10 beats) followed by 10/4. (another 10 beats)
Video Tutorials:
You can check out some of the instructional videos about time signatures by this person called drawthemoral on youtube.
His lessons are the simplest and the best.
Other occurrences.
In Kashmir by led Zeppelin.. you can see that the riff sort of loops and turns back on itself. Its achieved by using an odd time signature for the melody, but Bonham's drums are doing a regular 4/4 time signature. So the resultant effect is that you feel the riff goes flip-flop and straightens after every other bar, cuz its floating on top of that 4/4.
They've done the same thing with black dog. Its something that Bonzo figured out after John Paul Jones had explained to others how they could turn the riff back onto itself.
TIP
The easiest way to deal with odd time signatures is to divide them into more comprehensible factors.
This is VERY important and fundamental.
Like if you have a 7/4 ..you can count it as a 3/4 followed by a regular 4/4.
For 15/8
15/8 = 7.5/4 (you just halve both the values, to convert it to quarter notes from 8th notes)
= 4/4 + 7/8 (cuz 7/8 is the remaining 3.5/4)
So you can simply have a 4/4 followed by a 5/8 and adding two 8th notes at the end. Simple Arithmetic.
Its not that hard.
Odd time signatures just take a little practice to get used to. Then they are just normal like others. Its just like the time you learned alternate picking on guitar and learned to play a pattern that had two notes on one string and one note on the next string. It was infact a 3/4 ..an odd time signature. See, you already know one!
Chxphao, my readers.
Now if you're a drummer, this is one topic that must have come to you right after you learned your very basics.
And then you must have probably admired how god drummers are able to play poly-rythms, where one hand is playing a 5/4 and the other hand is playing a 7/8...Woahh!
Time signatures are an indispensable tool in the life of a drummer.
And kudos to those of you good guitarists who have been keen on taking up this topic to an advanced level.
Benefits:
-Time signatures are a very vital thing if you have anything to do with rythms.
-It is something that you can use to make things sound different , to give a different feel to your parts.
-Sometimes when a song has a completely different rythm structure, it really stands out.
Just so that you know.
Just look how nice this song feels.
Just to start you up, the intro starts with 7/8 immediately followed by 3/8 followed by 6/8 followed by a 4/8. This is one measure. So thats 20 ,8th notes a measure for the intro.
The "straight hair or curls" part is in 13/4 (its 3 and then 10 beats) followed by 10/4. (another 10 beats)
Video Tutorials:
You can check out some of the instructional videos about time signatures by this person called drawthemoral on youtube.
His lessons are the simplest and the best.
Other occurrences.
In Kashmir by led Zeppelin.. you can see that the riff sort of loops and turns back on itself. Its achieved by using an odd time signature for the melody, but Bonham's drums are doing a regular 4/4 time signature. So the resultant effect is that you feel the riff goes flip-flop and straightens after every other bar, cuz its floating on top of that 4/4.
They've done the same thing with black dog. Its something that Bonzo figured out after John Paul Jones had explained to others how they could turn the riff back onto itself.
TIP
The easiest way to deal with odd time signatures is to divide them into more comprehensible factors.
This is VERY important and fundamental.
Like if you have a 7/4 ..you can count it as a 3/4 followed by a regular 4/4.
For 15/8
15/8 = 7.5/4 (you just halve both the values, to convert it to quarter notes from 8th notes)
= 4/4 + 7/8 (cuz 7/8 is the remaining 3.5/4)
So you can simply have a 4/4 followed by a 5/8 and adding two 8th notes at the end. Simple Arithmetic.
Its not that hard.
Odd time signatures just take a little practice to get used to. Then they are just normal like others. Its just like the time you learned alternate picking on guitar and learned to play a pattern that had two notes on one string and one note on the next string. It was infact a 3/4 ..an odd time signature. See, you already know one!
Chxphao, my readers.
(Bonzo God)
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Guitar Dreams , Heavy metal Katana
If John Lennon could have solved the complex problem of demand, supply with an extra dimention of want incorporated, then really , the world would be a lot happier today.
Personally,I would get what I want.
-Want. It is the biggest cause of crime all around the world, but
on the other hand, it is a feeling driven by passion, a state in which one could do anything for that thing. Want is a good thing.
Writing silly lyrics at every second whim
Creating and scrapping tunes
Playing heavy rythm
Muscles screaming and dexterity seeping
Have you been in a purple haze?
Obfuscated by the confluence of a violet smoke of a floyd rose,
the gray mist of a flying v
And the red refraction of roland 30
is it a hole in the time fabric?
Like an absense of an electron in a semiconductor..
The absense of time.
The issue is abstract and vague, like modern art, running in your mind
Splashing all over the subconsciousness.
An imaginary flame waiting to catch illumination sometime.
The wholesome experience
That, which makes you feel like when you stand in a hall and stare at someone tilting your head diagonally downward, he with 3 other people will burn, or their flesh will explode from the vicious strikes of a katana within the next 2 seconds.
I would love to advertise headbanging on TV like sprite or thumbs up
Personally,I would get what I want.
-Want. It is the biggest cause of crime all around the world, but
on the other hand, it is a feeling driven by passion, a state in which one could do anything for that thing. Want is a good thing.
Writing silly lyrics at every second whim
Creating and scrapping tunes
Playing heavy rythm
Muscles screaming and dexterity seeping
Have you been in a purple haze?
Obfuscated by the confluence of a violet smoke of a floyd rose,
the gray mist of a flying v
And the red refraction of roland 30
is it a hole in the time fabric?
Like an absense of an electron in a semiconductor..
The absense of time.
The issue is abstract and vague, like modern art, running in your mind
Splashing all over the subconsciousness.
An imaginary flame waiting to catch illumination sometime.
The wholesome experience
That, which makes you feel like when you stand in a hall and stare at someone tilting your head diagonally downward, he with 3 other people will burn, or their flesh will explode from the vicious strikes of a katana within the next 2 seconds.
I would love to advertise headbanging on TV like sprite or thumbs up
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