During a guitar lesson yesterday my teacher was showing me how small details can greatly enhance the sound of a lick/song. He did this through showing my the lick in "Black Dog" written by "Led Zeppelin". During the lesson he showed my how Jimmy Page plays the song with minor details and how much greatly it changes the track with simple techniques like just holding down strings to allow them to ring out and how to bend into a blues note. I am yet to practice the lick in more depth but I intend to take these small details into consideration when writing from now forward
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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