jumpinjeff
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Inspired and inspirational. \m/
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Godspeed Skyman! If you ever get in trouble the Tequila Dance has gotten me out of awkward encounters.
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It really helped me understand the value of TAC when I saw it as a guitar gym. All the challenges are like the barbells and Cables and Pulleys and stacks. Within the gym there are breakouts for specific drilling to develop technique specific skill. I still had to find a team on which to play and sometimes the team is me solo, in fact, that is most of the time. My musical taste is wide and varied and I havent found one group to play with that covers all that I like to play. TAC prepared me to play the guitar using play as the means for discovery and progress. Although if I could find one good Acid Grass group….I think I would be good. : )
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I leave my hand as relaxed as I can get it in about the same posistion as if I were plucking a sequence, i have the wrist even more loose than the hand, my thumb/the meaty part of the thumb is what makes the bulk of the snare drum sound of the strings on the frets. When I need to i can lean in on my thumb and push that snare sound or conversly lighten it up so that is becomes a mute sound where all the strings choke off without a percussive snare/slap sound. The thumb is contacting primarily the Bass strings and really it is mostly the E and A string that makes the snare sound, sometimes the D string as well. My curled finger tips and the meaty part of my thumb on the bass coming down all together are the full execution.
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I think I understand where you going….Same key yes (for this purpose and intent). Tony changed one note in the scale from the Maj7 to the flat seven (to your point he did it once with the bass octave and once with the treble)…What has actually occurred here? The interval of the two notes comprising the second Diatonic half step interval have moved. How does that feel? And what does it allow for? It is a crossroads for tonal change should you want to pursue it. Using it in isolation allows for that sassy feel? Use what word you like. Sassy is a close but inadequit. Using it as a crossroads you can take off on haromonic adventure. You are right, it will confound you and then suddenly it will make sonic sense. Keep going Pete, you are absolutly on the right track….. And play more. : )
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The real explanation is the wavelengths of vibrational frequencies and what the ear is able to hear as they cross. They have an equivalent relativity within keys that are the same althought the freqencies are all higher or lower depending on which way you go in pitch. Sorry, my first response was tongue in cheek, I incorrectly inferred the nature of the question.
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Shadow and shade mixed together at dawn, by the time you catch them simplicity is gone, thus the Diminshed. : )
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My progress took off when I figured out that my Expectation was where fun goes to die. Once I cleared that hurdle I was off to the races and progressing at a surprising and welcome speed. The whole thing got better. Everytime I picked up the guitar I had a small win punctated and caused by fun and to this day it reamains the case 10+ years later. Make play you practice and make your practice fun. Two notes connected in time is more fun than almost anything I know. The only thing more fun is three, and so on and so on.
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There are two ways to know what scale you are playing based on where you are on the fretboard. One is to memorize and know that you are starting on Note “X” or you can listen and match tones. My personal take was I needed a bit of both as I am tonically fluid. I get easily fooled by thirds and fifths when formating scales in my head. I never met a harmony I couldn’t wonder off and away with. : )
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I try to think of my hand as the place where things tie together but are not anchored, it is always actively flowing….notice it is not moving…it is flowing. Where it ends up is more a function of my elbow and shoulder. From the support of arms and back my hand is free and my fingers become loose and movable the more my arm/back/shoulder support my hand. Time in the saddle is the only way I found to reinforce and build this platform. Precision overtakes force. It takes time.
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the river is deep and wide. There are volumes of old lessons that we don’t see any more. As time went on…the TACmethod focused and new improved lessons were introduced replacing old. What we see is a distilation of greatest hits as it were, fast progress and clear direction being the qualifiers.
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Yes, but less motion for sure.
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I forgot to mention that yes you can pick and choose notes to deliver different feelings throughout the song…. there is usually a connection between the Progression itself and what notes will work the most harmoniously into the mix….that is out side of where one can go by introducing dissonance and that is a whole-nother story.
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It is modes. We are talking modes without talking modes. Take the notes of the G major scale and change the 7th degree from major to Flat 7 what scale does it mirror…the C major scale but since we are connecting notes from the perspective of G as the tonic and not C it is referred to a G mixolydian…it is in fact called a Cmajor scale with the difference being the tonal center or the note of emphasis if you will as a direct result of the order of how the notes are played or another way to emphasise is repetition or even a puntated dynamic. Summing up here….. if you are soloing and continually reinforcing the tone of G you could signal the chord movement to C (the chordal C change) by hitting that flat 7 and then returning to G (which you will purposefully stay away from to tease the resolve), after pedaling the C note for a phrase/measure or unill you want it to resolve with the G again. Tension, release. This is a fun yet intertwined and woven topic that is still working its way through my grey matter…not hair. I think whole symphonies are written explaining this and a ton of books, non of which helped me…..I had to do it the down and dirty way of “keep going” until it makes sense. And it IS making sense more and more.
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Brilliant @albert_d : half step away from a happy day. That will get me going faster in the morning. It continues to amaze me how important these little mind frames are to my success. Another I use: the difference between Mediocre and Genius is…a half step.