Blue Morris Blog - Music and Guitar
The Correct Wrong Note
- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:00
- Category: Music and Guitar
Vaylor Trucks of The Yeti Trio used this interesting phrase on his band's blog recently: "the correct wrong note."
He describes it this way: "... the ability to drop in a single note or phrase at the exact right time which falls outside of the stated key but makes the music much more interesting.... It is a difficult thing to master, as it takes an innate sense of compositional theory, even when improvising, to pull it off."
No One Listens to Music Anymore
- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:00
- Category: Music and Guitar
Music has been relegated to the background. It's like furniture or flowers -- music is mere decoration for a room. Few today sit and listen to music without talking, reading, walking (iPods), eating, watching TV, or ironing laundry. How much of the music do we miss when we're not paying attention? I would venture to say nearly all of it.
The effect that music has on us when we are paying attention is entirely different. It is so much stronger. When we pay attention, we develop a relationship to the music. We come to understand it. We feel it more.
The Freedom and the Limitations
- Published on Saturday, 26 November 2005 01:00
- Category: Music and Guitar
On the Challenges of Learning Jazz Guitar
On the piano, middle C is always the same white key near the middle of the keyboard. There's only one place to play that note on the piano. On the guitar, there are three or four different places to play any given note in the same octave. With only a split second to find that note during your solo, which middle-C do you choose?