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GMC:er ![]() Group: Members Posts: 409 Joined: 18-June 09 From: Surrey, UK Member No.: 7.293 ![]() |
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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![]() Learning Roadie ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4.512 Joined: 9-March 10 From: United States, Arkansas Member No.: 9.801 ![]() |
I'm kinda with you on this one. I would be interested to hear some instructors and students advice on this.
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![]() Instructor ![]() Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 ![]() |
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 This is the hardest task! It's called getting in the zone and it is something you can actually practice! When you will get in the "Zone" you just feeling it and don't really think about what you are playing the notes just coming out naturally and everything sounds perfect! I will write a post about it tomorrow on my instruction board! -------------------- |
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![]() Instructor ![]() Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 22.808 Joined: 14-June 10 From: Bucharest Member No.: 10.636 ![]() |
Well, I would compare it with making a statement
![]() ![]() Playing with feeling is not about making funny faces ![]() 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 ![]() Expression is a powerful weapon and it can trigger incredible emotions in us humans if wielded properly. enjoy Cosmin -------------------- |
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Instructor ![]() Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.649 Joined: 15-October 08 From: Belgrade,Serbia Member No.: 6.085 ![]() |
CODE 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. That's superb explanation Cosmin !!! -------------------- |
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![]() Instructor ![]() Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 13.792 Joined: 11-March 10 From: England Member No.: 9.820 ![]() |
Great advice from the C-Maestro and Alex
![]() Yes, feeling is one of those things that cannot be taught or bought, only cultivated by time served with the instrument. This is maybe a little off topic but this relates to stopping yourself repeating the same, tired phrases over and over: A good way to avoid noodling without thought is to check yourself when you pick up the guitar. If you find you're just noodling away and playing the same licks all the time, then you're on autopilot. Just before your're about to play a phrase, stop yourself and make a conscious desicion to play something different to what you were about to play. It's quite hard to do it but try it. ![]() -------------------- |
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![]() Moderation Policy Director ![]() Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 10.459 Joined: 6-February 07 From: CT, USA Member No.: 1.167 ![]() |
Well, I would compare it with making a statement ![]() Heh, I love that metaphor so much that I feel compelled to push it to an extreme! Imagine that the girl you love is Russian, or Swedish, or French or German, just pick a language you have never learned and don't understand. How are you going to tell her how you feel? She is the love of your life, so just picking up a dictionary and learning 3 words "I Love You" in her language is not going to cut it - it doesn't convey the vastness of how you feel and she deserves so much more. So, you go to classes, you learn the language properly. You spend some time learning words, phrases, vocabulary. Then you study the poets of that language in their native tongue, you read extensively. Next, you have a go at writing some love poetry yourself. At the end of this, you are so well versed in the language that it ceases to be the barrier it once was, and you are able to tell the girl the way you feel straight form your heart using all the words and phrases at your command, both learned from great poets, and also that you have written yourself. The result? Of course she falls in love with you! OK, I am sure you see where this is going - the foreign language is the language of music. Words are notes, phrases are riffs, and those other poets? All the other guitarists you have admired over the years. When you have all of this inside you, it becomes easy to take the music straight form your heart to the guitar - not as a 3 word phrase you learned form a book, but as a living breathing thing that shows your true emotions. This is the true reason we practice so hard, not so that we can consciously play those notes and scales but so that we have them inside us unconsciously, ready to pull out when we need them in response to a particular thought or feeling. OK, I think I kicked that metaphor to death, I'll be quiet now! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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![]() Instructor ![]() Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 13.792 Joined: 11-March 10 From: England Member No.: 9.820 ![]() |
Well, I don't mind how long the metaphor was, that was a great post, Andrew !
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![]() Learning Tone Seeker ![]() Group: Members Posts: 627 Joined: 7-August 11 From: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Member No.: 13.558 ![]() |
Well, I would compare it with making a statement ![]() ![]() Playing with feeling is not about making funny faces ![]() 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 ![]() Expression is a powerful weapon and it can trigger incredible emotions in us humans if wielded properly. enjoy Cosmin Man, I always enjoy your metaphores! Great explanation, makes me really think. Agree with every single part of it, absolutely NOTHING to add! This post has been edited by Dinaga: Feb 6 2012, 09:16 PM -------------------- |
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![]() Moderation Policy Director ![]() Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 10.459 Joined: 6-February 07 From: CT, USA Member No.: 1.167 ![]() |
Well, I don't mind how long the metaphor was, that was a great post, Andrew ! ![]() Thanks Ben - you are obviously a very discerning individual! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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![]() Instructor ![]() Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 22.808 Joined: 14-June 10 From: Bucharest Member No.: 10.636 ![]() |
CODE 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. That's superb explanation Cosmin !!! Thank you Sinisa ![]() Man, I always enjoy your metaphores! Great explanation, makes me really think. Agree with every single part of it, absolutely NOTHING to add! Thanks mate ![]() ![]() -------------------- |
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