The Confessions Thread

[alexa.]

^read Vic Wootens book "The Music Lesson". May make things easier and more fun. Did for me.

[phantasmagorovich]

shit. i have NO idea what i'm doing. when somebody talks about going 1 to 4 then resolving to the 5 (that could be total bullshit. again, i know NOTHING) i have zero idea what that means. like, i've had people sit down and explain scale structure and i get the concept, but i'm a musical IDIOT. i have no idea what you're s'posed to do ever in anything. i know my way around the fretboard ok and i have patterns that i enjoy, but that's all i think in, is patterns. i have to stop and puzzle out where i'm at if i want to explain to somebody what root notes i'm going from to.

seriously, i am RIDICULOUSLY uneducated about the instrument i love playing.

Same here and I love it.
At least I have gotten used to the normal 4/4 beat. A couple of years ago I was an idiot regarding rhythm too, so I used to drive my bandmates mad by playing 3/4 over their 4/4 stuff or coming up with songs in 7/4 beats and shit like that. Fun times. Anyway I don't know shit about music theory and I couldn't really care less.

[DarkAxel]

Yesterday i was in an awesome party mode

smoked a huge joint with me friends

downed a few bottles

stayed up till the end of the event

got screwed over by my friend with benefits

...so i hooked up with the gorgeous girl next to me who is unfortunately taken...

...but I HAVE NOTHING TO BE SORRY ABOUT BECAUSE IT WAS AN AMAZING PARTY

[kbit]

At least I have gotten used to the normal 4/4 beat. A couple of years ago I was an idiot regarding rhythm too, so I used to drive my bandmates mad by playing 3/4 over their 4/4 stuff or coming up with songs in 7/4 beats and shit like that. Fun times. Anyway I don't know shit about music theory and I couldn't really care less.

EMBRACE THE 7/4!!! EMBRACE IT!!!

I've taken two music theory courses so I understand some stuff, but I still find that pattern-type method to be more "natural." I also read this interview with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and he said he understood playing guitar as arranging his thoughts into geometric shapes. It's a pretty interesting concept.

Thoughts have shapes just like tones—they have waveforms. You can translate the shapes of thoughts and emotions through your hands onto the fretboard. With experience, you start relating the shape of your hand on the fretboard to certain geometric shapes that enter your mind when you’re hearing those sounds or having those feelings. You hear people use shapes to describe things all the time such as, “That guy is a square,” or “This sound is really round.”

http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/oma ... pez/147630

[DarkAxel]

what? i enjoy graphic patterns and sometimes use them O.o

had no idea ORL was into it

[behndy]

huh. that IS interesting.

[jfrey]

Even after learning theory, I rarely write music in 4/4 or 3/4. It just doesn't work with what I hear in my head.

[snipelfritz]

I'm a real sucker for 6/8

[jfrey]

I'm a real sucker for 6/8

6/8 and 9/8 son. The best.

[kbit]

I love music that is really rhythmically complex with unique patterns/time signatures, but find myself using kind of "standard" time/counting a lot of the time. Maybe it just fits better with meditative vibe I usually go for, though throwing in a measure of something weird is always fun.

I guess I'm just surprised that Zach Hill hasn't rubbed off on me more haha.

I think my brain just cant take playing guitar right now. I have so much more fun just playing loud catchy shit on bass where as with guitar i just cant think up anything new for like the last year.

Different phases, man. That's happened to me a couple of times before. Keep on doing what feels best and embrace change if it comes

[Achtane]

I have this one guitar case that I try not to ever open 'cause I don't want the smell to go away. It smells exactly like the tuba cases from band class, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that weird valve oil smell.
Similarly I have this logo ripped out of one of my dad's old shirts that I keep 'cause it smells like him.
Post looks kinda creepy

[behndy]

nah. looks legit.

[dubkitty]

when i first got my Blueridge BG-160, which is a spruce-over-rosewood acoustic after a Gibson J-45, it smelled WONDERFUL even though it was a couple of years old...this delightful spiced-chocolate smell that made me want to crawl into the case and go to sleep. and when i first met my ex, she was getting ready to go to Burning Man and left a shirt that smelled like her which i kept until she got back. i'm a total creature that way...that's one reason i relate so well to cats, i think.

[bigchiefbc]

At least I have gotten used to the normal 4/4 beat. A couple of years ago I was an idiot regarding rhythm too, so I used to drive my bandmates mad by playing 3/4 over their 4/4 stuff or coming up with songs in 7/4 beats and shit like that. Fun times. Anyway I don't know shit about music theory and I couldn't really care less.

EMBRACE THE 7/4!!! EMBRACE IT!!!

I've taken two music theory courses so I understand some stuff, but I still find that pattern-type method to be more "natural." I also read this interview with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and he said he understood playing guitar as arranging his thoughts into geometric shapes. It's a pretty interesting concept.

Thoughts have shapes just like tones—they have waveforms. You can translate the shapes of thoughts and emotions through your hands onto the fretboard. With experience, you start relating the shape of your hand on the fretboard to certain geometric shapes that enter your mind when you’re hearing those sounds or having those feelings. You hear people use shapes to describe things all the time such as, “That guy is a square,” or “This sound is really round.”

http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/oma ... pez/147630

7/8 (or 7/4, depending on how you count it) is probably the time signature I write in more than any other. I don't know why, it's just the time I naturally gravitate towards when writing.

[snipelfritz]

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