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Anyone On Here Play The Guitar/Bass?
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Another good video
Another great video for rhythm playing
Good info here
He freaked that! My dad plays guitars and every time he do and I listen I tell him that sounded like shit bro
He laughs and asks me to play. Nigga, I don’t play! I listen. And you sound like shit on a stick!
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Good video here
Interesting story about this song
Glad I found this thread again
Been thinking about building my studio up again and starting with an electric guitar
Going to go through this whole thread
Been thinking about building my studio up again and starting with an electric guitar
Going to go through this whole thread
Just curious, what kind of studio are you putting together?
Just a small home studio for my records, turntables and instruments. Want to get a fender rhodes, electric guitar and learn to play.
Great video
Good video here
I wasn't into Teddy Pendergrass back in the day. I was all about the funk (although that bassline is funky). So I totally missed this one. That's busy as hell. I would have to woodshed for a minute to first learn all the notes and then begin to memorize it all. That's a hard one to cover!
Makes me feel good to hear you say it's a hard cover because I'm doing a good job learning it.
Post it when you got it!!Makes me feel good to hear you say it's a hard cover because I'm doing a good job learning it.
Another great video
Another great video here.
Another great guitar video
Another great video.
Another great video.
When she first released the video, I watched it and didn't really relate. I still kinda don't but I see more value in it. So this is my second time seeing it. I noticed she held back a lot lol. I'm guessing she didn't want to put any solid music ideas out there (save that for her future records and private lessons), so she kept it extremely basic. But...I can see this video being very useful and inspirational for beginning songwriters. It would have been cool if YouTube was around when I was younger.
I think her and my processes are different. When I was 18 and two years into guitar playing/songwriting, I remember making a bunch of songs out of that Cmaj7 to Fmaj7 combo... I actually really dig that particular progression. It sounds to me like summer.
I went through a few phases. Started singing onstage at 3, playing harmonica at 4, at age 7 or 8 composing melodies by singing aloud poems I'd read in kids magazines. Messed with drums for a bit in middle school. At 16 I wanted to create my own full songs so I taught myself to play guitar by playing song ideas that were in my head. At about 20 began studying guitar from a legendary blues guitarist. Started teaching myself piano a couple years later while in music school. Played orchestral string bass (upright bass) and borrowed a bass guitar for 6 months and learned to play it. Learned to play percussion as well. Picked up some other instruments along the way. I won't go through my whole musical story here though, but I will say this:
At a certain point when songwriting, I found I couldn't seem to get the lyrics I wanted without sounding cliche. So I got into studying and writing poetry, then performing it on stages. Later when I came back to songwriting, lyrics were intuitive. The poetry unlocked the word pictures.
H.E.R. gave an excellent piece of advice when she said to use Voice Memos (or whatever Android phone equivalent) to put down ideas. I do that too. At this stage of life, songwriting is intuitive and quick. When I get a musical idea, instrumentally and vocally-including backgrounds, everything comes at once. Often lyrics come quickly too. I think this is my disconnect with H.E.R. I don't play around much with chords to generate ideas. I hear something in my head and play it and record it. Songs can come by messing with chords, but rarely for me nowadays.
I would give the following two tidbits of advice, piggybacking off of some of what H.E.R. said:
Developing a singing melody (and the beginnings of lyrics):
When you come up with a chord progression and you're grooving off it and feeling it, sing. Don't even think about it. Don't worry about lyrics. Just sing. It can be words, nonsense syllables, nonsense syllables mixed with words- doesn't matter. Sing and when it starts sounding good to you, hit RECORD. This helps to intuitively extract the melody and rhythm of the words that will go with those chords. After doing that, you can fill the nonsense syllables with actual verses. You'll already have a vocal melodic and rhythmic framework to work with.
A way to write better, more original lyrics:
I recommend studying poetry. Or at least reading some good poetry. I don't recommend spoken word. I can recommend some good poetry anthologies. This will significantly add to the palette of verbal colors and to the backpack of devices you can use to tell your story.
Excellent feedback here buddy. I think H.E.R. was keeping it basic like you said for beginners, which was very cool. I agree with everything that you said too. I'm starting to get musical ideas in my head that I know will be top 10 hits. I have one in mind using the M.A.S.H. Theme Song with acustic and a little electric guitar as well. I sometimes get ideas for a song on the fretboard as I mess around and try and perfect the sound of my barre chords. I can do a great job fingering just one barre and playing that way. I make sure I tell myself not to make it too complicated. You don't need 15 chord changes in your song. That's what I like about what she was saying. I get a little down when I have trouble with those barre chords but I stick with it. I end up doing some soloing and working on slides, hammer on's and pull offs and I'm getting much better at them. I'm starting to be able to reslove solo phrases and I have no idea how I'm able to do it but it makes musical sense. That's when I know I'm getting better. As far as song writting goes, I've done about 7 already. I'm pretty pleased with them as well. I'm glad she made a point about how often lyrics repeat themselves in a song. It doesn't have to be complicated. Shit doesn't even have to make any kind of sense really. I also have a lot of guitar and bass pedals cause different sounds inspire me to come up with different ideas. I'll let you know when I get all my recording equipment in my studio. Getting vocal mics and mics for the amps as well. I want to know how to mic the amps. I'm also saving up for a saxophone as well. I wanna learn how to play that. When I get one I'll start a saxophone thread as well. I'm serious about becoming a songwriter, producer, composer and multi instrumental muscian. With all the information that's out there you can accomplish anything in life if you are determined and stick with it.
She had to be careful what she was saying. If you say you were inspired by a song, here comes the copyright claims.
Great Bio @respiration
I like your dedication and optimism. Keep at it, brother and enjoy the ride.Excellent feedback here buddy. I think H.E.R. was keeping it basic like you said for beginners, which was very cool. I agree with everything that you said too. I'm starting to get musical ideas in my head that I know will be top 10 hits. I have one in mind using the M.A.S.H. Theme Song with acustic and a little electric guitar as well. I sometimes get ideas for a song on the fretboard as I mess around and try and perfect the sound of my barre chords. I can do a great job fingering just one barre and playing that way. I make sure I tell myself not to make it too complicated. You don't need 15 chord changes in your song. That's what I like about what she was saying. I get a little down when I have trouble with those barre chords but I stick with it. I end up doing some soloing and working on slides, hammer on's and pull offs and I'm getting much better at them. I'm starting to be able to reslove solo phrases and I have no idea how I'm able to do it but it makes musical sense. That's when I know I'm getting better. As far as song writting goes, I've done about 7 already. I'm pretty pleased with them as well. I'm glad she made a point about how often lyrics repeat themselves in a song. It doesn't have to be complicated. Shit doesn't even have to make any kind of sense really. I also have a lot of guitar and bass pedals cause different sounds inspire me to come up with different ideas. I'll let you know when I get all my recording equipment in my studio. Getting vocal mics and mics for the amps as well. I want to know how to mic the amps. I'm also saving up for a saxophone as well. I wanna learn how to play that. When I get one I'll start a saxophone thread as well. I'm serious about becoming a songwriter, producer, composer and multi instrumental muscian. With all the information that's out there you can accomplish anything in life if you are determined and stick with it.
Thank you, fam. Much appreciated. Those were just a few things I found relevant to the topic.
We never know what tomorrow is gonna bring- especially these days. So, if I can share something helpful, great. I've learned and still learn a lot from others.
As the lady goes, when I mentioned her keeping things real simple I was mainly talking about the examples of how to write a song. She shows people the most simple stuff and saves her usable ideas for H.E.R.self. "The game is to be sold, not told" kinda thing.
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