Over Three Months
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:34 pm
Over three months since I posted any music here. A once regular routine has rather tailed off.
Also aware of how little I've been posting generally.
So just to say ... I'm still playing ... well, sort of playing. All my intended projects have stalled but not to worry.
So here's a few recent bits and pieces.
A pretty basic and not too well played acoustic blues in DADGAD tuning - based on a Rob MacKillop arrangement.
Then an improvised three part piece.
1st track - bass part on a uke bass - playing notes in the scale E Natural Minor. Trying not to play typical bass runs of think about chord progressions.
2nd track - acoustic guitar - 3 or 4 note chords or arpeggios in the same scale - avoiding what chords I knew. Trying to fit in with track 1 and repeating when good.
3rd track - acoustic guitar - lead / melodic line part - notes in the same scale - trying to weave it around what tracks 1 and 2 produced.
The thing I like about this method is I have no idea what the end result is going to sound like till I get there.
My apologies Gerd, if the recording title is incorrect. Google translate is not always right!
Finally a Jimmy MacCarthy song, "Missing You" - guitar and vocal live onto the Zoom recorder then an additional guitar part doing colour and a few fills.
https://app.box.com/s/mgv5xrsppwy7oxu2ua3me4zo6qul4au0
Also aware of how little I've been posting generally.
So just to say ... I'm still playing ... well, sort of playing. All my intended projects have stalled but not to worry.
So here's a few recent bits and pieces.
A pretty basic and not too well played acoustic blues in DADGAD tuning - based on a Rob MacKillop arrangement.
Then an improvised three part piece.
1st track - bass part on a uke bass - playing notes in the scale E Natural Minor. Trying not to play typical bass runs of think about chord progressions.
2nd track - acoustic guitar - 3 or 4 note chords or arpeggios in the same scale - avoiding what chords I knew. Trying to fit in with track 1 and repeating when good.
3rd track - acoustic guitar - lead / melodic line part - notes in the same scale - trying to weave it around what tracks 1 and 2 produced.
The thing I like about this method is I have no idea what the end result is going to sound like till I get there.
My apologies Gerd, if the recording title is incorrect. Google translate is not always right!
Finally a Jimmy MacCarthy song, "Missing You" - guitar and vocal live onto the Zoom recorder then an additional guitar part doing colour and a few fills.
https://app.box.com/s/mgv5xrsppwy7oxu2ua3me4zo6qul4au0