Playing With Feeling
carminemarotta
Feb 5 2012, 10:25 PM
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Hi all,
I have a question about "playing with feeling". Usually slow tempo solo like Gilmour (see some of the David Walliman on GMC) must be played with feeling. I know what is, I can hear how it sounds. But how do you translate your feeling to the fretboard?

Carmine

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Cosmin Lupu
Feb 6 2012, 08:20 AM
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Well, I would compare it with making a statement smile.gif when you are in love with a girl and you are talking to her, you are not thinking of what you're going to tell her - honest words, truthful, sincere and backed up by a storm of butterflies coming out of your stomach - that's what's going on, without you even knowing it. That's the exact thing which happens when you are playing with feeling smile.gif the guitar is no longer a piece of wood on which you are practicing scales. It becomes a means of expression - it helps you say what you need to say - it's that simple. But, in order to get there you need how to learn and let go.

Playing with feeling is not about making funny faces laugh.gif it's about telling a story and captivating your listeners from one end to another. In how many ways can you play a note?

Try this:

- pick a note - any note
- try to imagine how that note would sound if it were furious, in love, sad, quiet, loud, confused, happy, disappointed and what other sort of feeling comes to your mind.
- play all these in ONE note smile.gif and see what happens.

Expression is a powerful weapon and it can trigger incredible emotions in us humans if wielded properly.

enjoy

Cosmin

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