My biggest inspiration when it comes to writing, creating and playing music is John Frusciante. He uses a funk guitar technique of instead of playing individual notes playing all strings whilst muting the notes he doesn't want. This technique is also used by Cory Wong of "Vulfpeck". I hope to combine that technique some how with Dan Auerbachs riffing on pentatonic scales style of writing together in order to get a sound that will sound yet unique but also emulate the sound of my inspirations. To do this I will first need to gain a better ability of Frusciante's muting technique to become more fluent with i
Change of musicians Over the course of this project I've had to change the people in which i collaborated with. At the beginning the plan was to work with two other musicians. Jaymie Porter (Bass) and Rhys Battle (Drums) having my self playing the guitar. However there were two main issues that had rose the prevented me from doing so. The first was the lack of motivation these musicians had to practice which led to them not being able to play to the standard I wished them too. Although the drummer did have knowledge on how to drum I found that he was just not willing to dedicate him self the way I would of wanted him too. This came apparent to me during rehearsal sessions where he had repeatedly failed to of learned his parts. The situation with the bassist was much worse as he just did not know how to play bass. Although that is what he considered to be his main instrument it was apparent that he was not committed nor efficient in his instrument of choice. Not only was it a prob...
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