Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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F major is hard.
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  1. 1009June 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM

    Really important to learn this one, because after it you will be able to play bar/barre chords. Just move the F major (or minor for that matter) fingering up the fretboard & you'll have a major chord at each fret. An obvious point, maybe, but a revelation for me.

    Also, it's often easier, especially with F, to play the triad + octave at the top rather than all of the strings.

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  2. 1009June 16, 2009 at 5:26 PM

    Helpful quote from Derek Bailey:

    I use the guitar normally. It's tuned normally. I work on, sort of, certain pitch relationships, when I use pitch. I work from a practical point of view. That is, the music to be acceptable as far as I'm concerned, has to work in my terms. That is it has to sound right. I don't have any sort of huge abstract theories into which I try and make the music fit regardless of this other aspect of playing - if it sounds good when you're performing, then that's the main thing. It's got to be immediate - that type of thing. That I think is a very conventional way of approaching music for a performer.

    I don't use a lot of conventional techniques on the guitar. But then, I'm not interested to play in the areas those techniques were developed to serve. It wouldn't be any good for my purposes to do a sort of imitation of Charlie Christian or something. People can refer to that, say, as conventional guitar playing. But it isn't. It's conventional jazz guitar playing of a certain period. To certain people, the only way to play a guitar is in a flamenco style, which I think is quite beautiful, incidentally. These are taken to be sort of standard conventional techniques - but, actually, they're techniques that serve certain purposes.

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  3. HeidiJune 17, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    I haven't even tried the version of F that uses all the strings. Barre chords will take time. I just can't seem to push down right. I need a demo.

    Bailey is smart.

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