Comments on: psychedelic guitar playing: scales and techniques

By: David De Candia

David De Candia — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:15:03 +0000

If you haven’t already, try GarageBand smart guitar on the iPad2. Lets you play some pretty far out stuff without requiring any real music theory. Because it’s hard to hit a wrong note, it’s especially suited to those intense psychedelic music sessions where your coordination is a bit loose. Or a lot loose…

By: Isabel Russell

Isabel Russell — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:35:50 +0000

Indian Music is really cool and some of it are great dance music too.,’;

By: Naruto 1

Naruto 1 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:24:08 +0000

Hallöchen
Hervorragender Post. Da hat mich Google mal wieder an einen hervorragenden Blog geschickt.
Viele Grüße aus Bantai

By: ricardo

ricardo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:38:06 +0000

Hi Gary, I was scrolling very fast down one of your pages and the writing was a complete blur. The name Larry Young popped into my mind. I slowly went back up the page and there he was ! I remember how I used to jam along to the Devotion album in the early 1980s.
I have sent some mp3s, but apparently there has been some email problems. If you did not receive them I will try again.

By: ricardo

ricardo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:11:02 +0000

Hi Gary, I kept saying to myself that i should check out your site again. I did not realise that it was so diverse ! I also have a great fondness for improvising over a sustained chord or drone. It becomes a form of meditation. I think it was a piece by Steve Reich where sustained chords played on the organ yielded some enjoyable improvisations.
Learning and practising scales is part of being a musician, but sometimes the most interesting things happen when you step outside a particular scale, – perhaps only briefly in order to create tension and dissonance. And if we take things further, there can be quite powerful effects on the listener by deliberately avoiding harmony all together. For example in experimental music for say horror or science-fiction films. I composed some very strange ‘music’ a few years ago using a diy tone generator, and the results were like the early experiments of the German band Cluster.
By the way, I was very interested in your modified Ibanez SG.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:08:35 +0000

Thank you! I guess my profession as a teacher came through in this post…
Please send me your song!

By: Elspeth

Elspeth — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:50:42 +0000

I love soloing over a droning root. Droning root music is my favourite. To me it is Celtic and Eastern/Indian. I have an entire song I composed using the E as droning root and getting the sitar effect. I’ll see if I can send it to you or maybe even post it one day on my blog. As I read yours today I thought: it’s so educational for musicians, for other guitarists. If I come across anyone trying to learn guitar I will send them here.