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Harmony For Dummies

September 10, 2007

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By: Gary Drechsel visit website

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I have less time to work on these little tunes lately so I'm not sure how often I'll be posting them. It's taking me a few days to finish them now if not more.

This time I had a little guitar riff that I liked a little and had saved. I tried to make a drum part for it but I couldn't get one that seemed to fit. I worked on it anyway and tried to expand the resulting bass part into something song like. What I ended up with didn't really work though. I had trouble playing along to it and my rhythm guitar parts just sounded awful. After all that work I didn't feel like just soloing over the bass and drums (after doing that for most of the last tune) or ditching it completely, so I decided to come up with a little melody line that I could practice playing harmony to. This is the result. The original guitar part that inspired it isn't in the piece. I played the Parker exclusively.

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Experiments in guitar recording.

Little nuggets of guitar playing for your (but especially my) enjoyment.

From the very beginning when I used to hear those solos on those old records I used to say: now here is an instrument that is capable of spewing forth true obscenity, you know? If ever there's an obscene noise to be made on an instrument, it's going to come out of a guitar. On a saxophone you can play sleaze. On a bass you can play balls. But on a guitar you can be truly obscene... Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That's why I like it... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time.

Frank Zappa