“I think they compare it to ‘Risk’ because of the strumming pattern,” Abrams says. “The chords are in the same world, but it’s the strumming pattern that I personally found myself writing with a lot over
It may have been that I was younger then and anyone over about 55 looked like they were 80+ to me, but I always questioned whether they should be the ones driving those big rigs, whether they should, you know, give the job to their grandsons, who were probably about 40 and could eas...
It was also set against the other music making pop interesting at the time, at least by the music press: rave, rap, and r&b. And that, perhaps, is the biggest reason why new pop will never repeat itself. Pop music in the early 1980s was still segregated in a way that may be imp...
Time and again when I played the GPC-13E, I kept gravitating toward strumming. Chords just want to jump out of this guitar, and it feels like you could play set after set with minimal fatigue and lots of satisfying sounds. It’s also a good fingerstyle guitar, with i...
As soon as vocalist Katie Cecil’s vocals enter, a slinky bass line lays down the groove. It’s impossible to not tap your feet as you sing along to the fun chorus. Cecil and Anthony Purpura, the second half of the Wayfarers duo, expertly lay flashy guitar chords in the background of...
(dollars) you bring them. In other words, for your marketing skills. One has nothing to do with the other. So you sacrifice years of your life to your craft and the guy down the road who can barely write coherently or play three chords gets the gig because he’s more successful at ...
That acoustic intro moving around those minors made me rethink melody. The first few distorted chords strike like an evil hammer forging a pit of suffering and despair. Then the ascending lines take us into the first song proper :Infinite. Moist? I needed a few towels. ...
Glass sets up a clear mode of operation from the start of any set-piece, and it unfolds gradually as if its own narrative. In the beginning, perhaps, Glass has a short, cyclical, modal melody accompanied by a repeating set of arpeggiated chords. He repeats it. A lot. Then he changes...
Matson:That seems like a nice way to go; you are in a controlled studio for good sound, not a nightclub, but you have listeners with you. How did you get going with that approach? League:It came out of some of the comments we were getting at early gigs, where people would say "I...
[Image: DreamCube]ImagineGuitar Hero. . . but instead of riffing chords, you kick the soccer ball—and you can kick it as hard as you like, right into the wall of pixels. The demo I’m watching is but one of many possible apps built for DreamCube, an enticing new technology...