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<blockquote data-quote="Davy" data-source="post: 77205852" data-attributes="member: 404357"><p>I played guitar for many years. After about 10 years, I got tired of learning everyone's else's songs and just playing covers. I wanted to understand how they wrote stuff, especially when I got into Jazz-Fusion. (I don't sing).</p><p></p><p>I then studied the Freshman and Sophomore college level Harmony books written by Peter Alexander who was a composition major grad from Berklee College of Music (Boston). That's made a huge difference in my study of music, and ability to write.</p><p></p><p>Just from those books, one of the guys at work that played bass, had a melody he recorded on cassette tape, and it was something he wrote for his daughter's upcoming wedding. They had the lyrics to it and wanted to sing it at her wedding in the Chapel at Disney World. So I took the cassette, devised chord triads based on the melody, and then I programmed a drum kit and wrote a bass line which I de-tuned my electric guitar and recorded. And then I played a rhythm guitar part I wrote for it. I then mixed it down to another cassette that night and gave it to him the next day. He couldn't believe it, and wondered how I could do all that in just one night. Later, he told me they played my cassette as the band at the Chapel mixing board, and all went well as his daughters sang the lyrics.</p><p></p><p>I actually started to write a music theory book for musicians, because in my process of learning I wasted a lot of money on music theory books that didn't get the job done. I remember buying a chord book that had graphs of chords in all 12 keys. And once I learned that there's actually only 4 main triads in western diatonic harmony, it ticked me off, because once you learns your Triads, then you know how to spell all... chords, and don't need a book to find them.</p><p></p><p>I then got an excellent Mel Bay guitar book that taught how to play Chord Melody style, a style that most Jazz guitarists use for solo guitar playing. It had me mapping out on the fretboard all possible voicings of a single chord from the nut of the neck all the way up to the 12th fret. That's the secret, knowing the various chord voicings up and down the neck, so that wherever you're at on the fretboard with playing a melody line, you know a voicing(s) of the chord you need at that spot. And yes, the voicings can sound very different from each other, while still maintaining the fundamental sound of the style of chord.</p><p></p><p>In Spain, where the guitar was developed, they treat playing it like a pianist would approach a piano, covering the melody, rhythm, and bass all at the same time. One of the world's best Spanish guitarists, a Flamenco player for example...</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]mYYDdn1rRKs[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>And then there's Pat Metheny... from St. Louis, Missouri that amazed the Jazz guitar world when he was young back in the early '80s. Here's a cover song he did on his baritone guitar (has a heavier bass string setup) for solo guitar. This is ONLY HIM playing one guitar, no dubs:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]EA-mRx1C_iw, list: RDQMLVkNDkIbpPY[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Y3BTNpHQzL0[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davy, post: 77205852, member: 404357"] I played guitar for many years. After about 10 years, I got tired of learning everyone's else's songs and just playing covers. I wanted to understand how they wrote stuff, especially when I got into Jazz-Fusion. (I don't sing). I then studied the Freshman and Sophomore college level Harmony books written by Peter Alexander who was a composition major grad from Berklee College of Music (Boston). That's made a huge difference in my study of music, and ability to write. Just from those books, one of the guys at work that played bass, had a melody he recorded on cassette tape, and it was something he wrote for his daughter's upcoming wedding. They had the lyrics to it and wanted to sing it at her wedding in the Chapel at Disney World. So I took the cassette, devised chord triads based on the melody, and then I programmed a drum kit and wrote a bass line which I de-tuned my electric guitar and recorded. And then I played a rhythm guitar part I wrote for it. I then mixed it down to another cassette that night and gave it to him the next day. He couldn't believe it, and wondered how I could do all that in just one night. Later, he told me they played my cassette as the band at the Chapel mixing board, and all went well as his daughters sang the lyrics. I actually started to write a music theory book for musicians, because in my process of learning I wasted a lot of money on music theory books that didn't get the job done. I remember buying a chord book that had graphs of chords in all 12 keys. And once I learned that there's actually only 4 main triads in western diatonic harmony, it ticked me off, because once you learns your Triads, then you know how to spell all... chords, and don't need a book to find them. I then got an excellent Mel Bay guitar book that taught how to play Chord Melody style, a style that most Jazz guitarists use for solo guitar playing. It had me mapping out on the fretboard all possible voicings of a single chord from the nut of the neck all the way up to the 12th fret. That's the secret, knowing the various chord voicings up and down the neck, so that wherever you're at on the fretboard with playing a melody line, you know a voicing(s) of the chord you need at that spot. And yes, the voicings can sound very different from each other, while still maintaining the fundamental sound of the style of chord. In Spain, where the guitar was developed, they treat playing it like a pianist would approach a piano, covering the melody, rhythm, and bass all at the same time. One of the world's best Spanish guitarists, a Flamenco player for example... [MEDIA=youtube]mYYDdn1rRKs[/MEDIA] And then there's Pat Metheny... from St. Louis, Missouri that amazed the Jazz guitar world when he was young back in the early '80s. Here's a cover song he did on his baritone guitar (has a heavier bass string setup) for solo guitar. This is ONLY HIM playing one guitar, no dubs: [MEDIA=youtube]EA-mRx1C_iw, list: RDQMLVkNDkIbpPY[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]Y3BTNpHQzL0[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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