hairy old hippy
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Posted: June 06 2007, 04:47 |
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opening scene:
"I'm really quite a simple musician I can't play all the chords and millions of scales but I really love and enjoy playing every note, even just one chord, I feel it see.
"I would say a mark of a good musician is if you can play one note and mean it that's better than being able to play zillions of scales and not mean it.
"The first piece is called 'Guilty' and uhhh..and my fourth album which was called 'Incantations' was all based around one chord which was sort of like this..(plays a chord and scale on his guitar)..and I wanted to do an uptempo piece of music using that chord, that it was traditional bass, drums, guitar, piano, a rhythm section but using more interesting chords to base it on rather than the usual sorts of formulas people use to do that sort of music"
plays along to opening bars of 'Guilty'
second interview segway:
"I started off in music playing acoustic guitar like this and fingerpicking...(plays acoustic fingerpick style)..fingerpicking, and I developed that style with my nails and I continued that over to electric. Well I best show you on the electric really.
"There's certain sections where I need to have a pick to play along..(strums electric)..see? Than I quickly have to put the pick up to my mouth like that..(puts pick in mouth)..so when I use the sustain sound, because I have to stop every string that's not being sounded otherwise it makes this sort of 'chchkreoww' noise and so I pick it like a classical guitar... (demonstrates pick style)...and rather stopping them here and with my nails there...(shows points over pickups and bridge on guitar)...I'll stop it up here somehow...(further plucked electric guitar)...you see all the others have stopped....I can do it with any guitar.
"Well the begining of Tubular Bells is like a formula..(plays opening riff)..it's sort of you're just hammering between one string and another but I did it on piano and that formula has been ripped off so often by films and tv and tv commercials that I thought well, I'd rip myself off and start doing some different ones so I thought of a different one, hammering thing, it's almost the same it goes...(plays riff)...instead of...(plays riff)...and..uh..so I put that in just to make it a bit, give it a bit of variation, I mean there's zillions of different ones you can think of, could be...(improvises riff)...they could go on endlessly"
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