Lester's Thread, for Gab's Army Options

[Gabriel Leopardi]

Hi Lester, welcome to our thread for Gab's Army! Here I will help you to achieve your goals as guitarist and musician with guitar routines, links and explanations as well as tasks and constructive feedback.

These are your current goals:

* theoretical knowledge: use of more chords and scales, but also recording and sound (effectswise)
* songwriting: anything that helps, also theory about chords inversions, progressions, etc.
* improvising: especially I would like to be able to improvise along the chords, not just in a key of a song. and I know only one scale...the minor natural one..
* and lastly I woud like to be able to understand and play the blues (and bluesrock)...


Have you ever composed a song? or music ideas? Do you have any stuff to share here?

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[Lester]

Allright , Here is a melodic analysis of the first song.

It's obvious that only notes from the Bbm scale are used, I am not sure if you can pick notes outside of the scale and if it would still sound good, can you?

Jason picks at least one note from the actual chord in the melody he plays when the chord sounds and he switches between using root notes in the melody at the start of the chord, or not.

Then there is hardly any D# (IV) in the intro and verse, but a lot more in the chorus and bridge. And there is not a lot of F#(VI) in the melody, while there is in the chords. There is also quite some switching between adjacent chords, that are close to each other and then all of a sudden a bigger jump. At the end of the bridge is the only time the Cm7b5 chord is used

The Guitar is played with a lot of muted strumming, I think its a 16 measure bar? But I am not sure, I mostly do rhythm on "feel", I can't really explain it. The only other instrument would be the conga.

In the intro and chorus the guitar plays quite constant, while in the verse the chords are only played on the first beat of the measure and then muted for half the verse and then it goes back to constant. There is a notable rhythm switch in the bridge, Jason doesn't really mute the chords there, but rather plays a lot of them really soft and short and then one loud stroke...it's an 8 measure beat in the bridge I think.

Do you think I missed anything? other things I should analyze?

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