tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88434344565919413382024-03-05T18:25:03.764-08:00Daniel Rainard - GuitaristA blog about my thoughts on music and the guitar. Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-32522504217491746012018-04-17T20:45:00.001-07:002018-04-17T20:57:25.058-07:00Just breathtaking arrangement of Spain by SNIPS Trio. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I had to learn this amazing diminished tapping lick which starts on the root of the F#7 chord and then follows an ascending diminished triad a half step above. Repeat this up a tritone on the next string up until your done. Of course you catch the top note of each pattern with your right hand index finger tapping and pulling off. Something like this:<br />
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Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-72855512402384040582014-12-07T00:46:00.001-08:002014-12-07T00:47:40.121-08:00Cool Concert<iframe width="480" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RMj-htWGGq0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-5177169711378344502014-11-16T17:17:00.001-08:002014-11-18T10:32:15.615-08:00The original Kurt Rosenwinkel Lick<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have evolved slowly but surely as a musician but I feel a milestone has been reached and I am finally able to hear/conceive what is going on with this lick (See Fig 1) that has inspired and eluded me for so long. I transcribed it incorrectly a couple times before and learned a lot trying to reverse engineer it. I wonder if at times my subconscious was playing a shell game and keeping the loot always just out of sight while other incidental knowledge was revealed. Kurt is such an amazing guitarist I am often left scratching my head. This to me sounds like it's in the ball park and is one of several places this lick lives on the guitar. I suspect he played it on the top three strings starting with a Bb Minor triad (see Fig 2) in the first position but the articulation is essentially the same. My aim is not to play just like Kurt Rosenwinkel but to shine a light on his prodigious technique and express gratitude that he has inspired guitarists like myself to look deeper into their instrument and coax new music from it. Like other greats he has found his own voice but his is especially grounded in sound technique and a firm grasp of harmony. These qualities have enabled him to become a prolific and poetic musician and I really can't overstate the impact his presence has had on my musical development. I have practiced and transcribed loads and loads searching for scraps of what seems to come so effortlessly to him. Anyway, this is for me a milestone technique and I'm excited to post it! Thanks Kurt! Geek out!<br />
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Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-31562814715340812602014-10-20T13:54:00.002-07:002014-10-30T12:24:22.022-07:00Strat Setup<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is THE WAY to set up your Floating Tremolo on a Stratocaster. I am so glad I found these videos. Why didn't I know this sooner?! I hope this is as helpful to someone else as it was to me. The first explains why this is useful musically and the second presents a more scientific approach to the setup. <br />
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This lick appears at about 32 secs into the track Safe Corners from Kurt's Remedy album. It points to the kind of left hand propulsion that I think is one his trademarks. These licks that just jump off of the guitar like a Romanian gymnast's tumbling routine. It's an inspired flourish in the middle of a beautiful improvised intro. When I met Kurt once and had the opportunity to ask what I should be doing to improve as a guitarist he said simply, "connect your voice to your guitar." This recording is a fine example of how he has done just this. <br />
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Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-62234643655953427982014-07-03T00:08:00.000-07:002014-07-03T00:08:32.869-07:00An exercise to stretch the fingers and the ears.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently watched a YouTube video about fourths and realized while trying to fall asleep that the exercise described in the video could be applied to the guitar as a way of teaching position shifts, fingerings and the like in a contextual way. Like a muscle memory formula. If then... <br />
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So the exercise is this. Pick a note, pick a finger to play that note and pick a note within one octave of that note to be the upper or lower limit of the octave in which you will play the entire cycle of fourths or fifths ascending or descending. This forces one to concentrate! Once you've played through the entire cycle the fingerings will become a pattern and you will repeat the cycle with the same optimum fingering. Now, change one variable in that equation, be it the starting note, the finger you play it with, the octave in which you play the cycle and go again. This exercise forces you to be conscious of your instrument in a particular way that is useful to improvisation and to sight-reading and because the harmonic component is so void you can focus on the technical challenges that every guitarist must overcome in order to play music fluidly (ie. spatial awareness of the fretboard and the mechanics of your left hand.) There is more to be said but now that the gist is here I'll write more at another time. </div>
Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.712891000000013-36.4181565 99.052733999999987 90 69.521483999999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-54861172868080316822014-06-28T00:33:00.003-07:002014-07-08T18:48:14.550-07:00Fanatical Behavior<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While I am a musician I am also a music fan and fan of other musicians. I waited for what seemed to my wife to be an excessive amount of time to have a word with Kurt Rosenwinkel after the Human Feel concert tonight. It gave me a chance to pay some compliments to other musicians who performed during the night but when the gathered crowd was dwindelling and there was still no sign of Kurt, Ioana said let's go, and we went. I explained it to her this way: I wanted to tell him thank you for being an inspiration. I also thought I'd snap a picture of him for my wall of fame. I realize now and really have for some time that this is perhaps juvenile but the admiration I feel for these guitarists who've inspired my development is real. Instead of a picture I left with a sonic impression of the evening's music and glimpses of great technique that got me thinking about what goes on in Kurt's mind and fingers so I came home and practiced. I worked out a diminished pattern that is not on my list but should be so I'll list it here:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|--9-8------8-6-----6-5-----5-3-----3-2----</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|------8</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-10</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-----7</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-8</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-----5</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-7</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-----4</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-5</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-----2</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-4</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also I noticed Kurt do something like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|--7-6---------0------------------------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|--------8-7-6---------0----------------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|----------------8-7-6---------0--------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|------------------------8-7-6---------0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|--------------------------------8-7-6--</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That got me thinking about other open string ideas such as:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|----------------------------0---3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|----------------------0---3---6--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|----------------0---3---6--------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|----------0---3---6--------------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|----0---3---6--------------------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">|--3---6--------------------------</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the way home, my wife asked me how he made his guitar sound like a bass and an organ and I knew the <a href="http://www.ehx.com/products/hog2" target="_blank">answer</a> and I knew that someday I could do the same if circumstances warranted it. I guess it would be more </span>realistic<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to expect that when you go to a concert you will hear music, not </span>necessarily meet up with the artists who make it. But what if you want to thank them for the music and demonstrate that they've made a valuable contribution to your musical thinking? Then you write them a thank you letter or you write a song that expresses such. Someone like Kurt has given guitarists and musicians in general so much to think about that our artistic debt is sort of self-evident. He's the man! Anyway, I'm not a sycophant, just a fan and a musician thankful to everyone whose made an impact on my musical development. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The other side to all this is that you feel the onus of what you wish to become, artistically. You feel </span>inspired to grow. Anyway, music has always been a source of joy and the sort of malingering that goes on after a concert is fine to a point but one should never feel disappointed because you didn't get a word in or a photo with your particular guitar hero. You got what you came for and that's the music. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">|-----11---------8--------------------------------------------------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">|--11----11-10-8---8------10----------------------------------------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">|--------------------11-9----9-8----11---------8--------------------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">|--------------------------------11----11-10-8---8-------10--------7</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">|--10----10-8-------------10----------------------</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">|-------------11---11-9-8----8-------11--------8--</span><br />
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Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-46208647902709957482014-06-14T11:48:00.000-07:002014-06-14T11:48:15.600-07:00In Response to another recent question, "What do you think about while you're playing?"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thank you for you question James! This is what I think about: Music. But before I could do that, I had to think about the mechanics of this kind of unwieldy instrument with 5 different places to play middle C and four, potentially 5 fingers to play them with. My strong suggestion is to begin by learning arpeggio shapes. Then moving them through a key. Familiarize yourself with the shapes of different intervals and how you might reach them. Where your hand is currently dictates some of where you can go next and so context becomes very important and to develop continuity you must learn every inversion of every chord and all positions of a given scale. My little book on motific mastery might be helpful. It is a fairly robotic approach but it lays the groundwork of moving up and down the neck. We should just do lesson! Until then, YouTube! So many free guitar lessons it's silly. Everyone has something to offer, even if it's a good example of what not to do. Best of luck. Oh, and often I'm thinking about dynamics and balance. That is the thing I'm conscious of most of the time. </div>
Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-74853132417249017762014-06-10T16:01:00.002-07:002014-06-12T23:46:22.680-07:00In response to a recent question, "Where do you find your vocabulary?"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some of the most helpful answers I’ve found are in the music
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By transcribing what it is that
piques my interest musically, I have learned to make the theory come alive in a
way that it might not have otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think the theory you learn in college or wherever is a useful framework for
cataloguing your musical ideas and extrapolating new ones but in itself does
not inspire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So return to the source,
the artists who made you pick up the instrument in the first place and
listen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transcribe what you love and see
if you can stretch it rhythmically, harmonically, melodically into a vocabulary
of your own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep only what you
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make mistakes, learn from them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let them go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Be forgiving of yourself and others and keep playing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Practice connecting your
instrument with your voice by vocalizing while you play, unless you play a wind
instrument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be disciplined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to be dogmatic go ahead, though
it may limit your circle of friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
from Seattle where the rule seems to be “to each his own” and I’m just fine
with that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see a prism of the
world’s cultures here and I love it. When I hear something that touches me I isolate it and study it and and work it up and down it's given harmonic context. I break things down by key
center, and mode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, “What key are we in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What chord are we playing in that key, the
IV, the V, etc?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What degree is this
melodic note relative to the root of that chord?” Some things are atonal and those are usually kind of intuitive on the geometry of the fingerboard, even if they don't fall into a key. I had just played "<a href="http://danielrainard.com/Freedom%20Jazz%20Dance.pdf" target="_blank">Freedom Jazz Dance</a>" when this question was posed to me. What had I played and where did it come from? </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was following my ears and occasionally my fingers. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There were other things like superimposed harmonies and a Michael Brecker lick that I lifted but that intervallic stuff lays on the guitar pretty well. That is such an idiosyncratic melody that just moving motifs from it around can make up a great solo. The diminished scale has a lot to yield toward outside playing but there are other symmetrical scales, like Messian's modes of limited transposition that can be applied to a static harmony to give a sense of movement. Was I thinking of any of this while I played? No. But's it's good to have onboard. </span></div>
Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-42059154041833827082013-12-20T11:56:00.000-08:002014-07-03T00:13:18.682-07:00That Mysterious Kurt Rosenwinkel Lick<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is what I'm hearing and feeling about this lick at 2:18 in Minor Blues from Kurt Rosenwinkel's album The Next Step. It's on the 2nd and 3rd strings and this fingering is pretty intuitive. I've transcribed it in C to remove accidentals and any resulting confusion. The slurs indicate pull-offs. If you've been trying to figure this out for a while, you should feel pretty good this. Now put it into different scales and keys and make it your own. As ever, thank you Kurt for the inspiration and thank you reader for sharing my enthusiasm for this music. <br />
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Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-24226733141712267002013-09-08T23:04:00.001-07:002013-09-08T23:04:52.077-07:00Tuck Andres in '84<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cKBNpfITglY" width="459"></iframe><br />
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There aren't too many guys who carry the history of the guitar on their backs the way Tuck does. He is able to elucidate techniques from a broad range of players and has developed such a unique style over the years. He touches on George Benson, Jay Graydon and Lenny Breau in this clinic. A lot of key stuff here. Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-26544893943389992462012-11-03T02:48:00.001-07:002014-06-08T13:43:45.380-07:00Patterns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"1+2! 1+2 more fun for me and you and you!"- Richie Aldente<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans; font-size: 14px;">The job I have playing guitar on the cruise ships of Holland America Line has been a real education in geography and the world's cultures. Even though we spend only a day or two at each destination, my perspective has been enriched by this experience and I am</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">grateful for the opportunity to open my eyes and ears to people I would not otherwise have met. As T.S. Eliot so aptly put it, "The journey not the arrival matters." That being said, it is good to be home and after seeing a fair part of the world, I have a better idea where home is. I think he said something like that too. Anyway, right now I am happier than ever to see my friends and family and I am grateful for their continued support as I look forward to embarking on my 3rd world cruise in 2012. I'll miss you guys and girls!</span></span></span><br />
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Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-10044247265214649092010-06-14T06:42:00.000-07:002011-12-13T04:07:31.467-08:00Blah, blah, blog.I opened up Jim Snidero's Jazz Conception today and played through a simple blues etude. It was 6 AM and the sunlight wouldn't let me rest so I gave in to the impulse to play guitar and it has been a long time since I've looked at that book. It reminded me that simple is almost always better. I soon tired of reading the notes on the page and set off to improvising, developing themes that I'd read. Here's the thing: they were good notes on the page. Good for reasons that would seem obvious to experienced musicians and perhaps less so to beginners but they'd sound good to practically everybody. It got me thinking, as I was improvising, about the vocabulary I choose and the challenges I'm willing to tackle in order to express something of worth. Music has always been about communication for me. If I have to utilize advanced concepts and cover new ground in order to satisfy a curiosity or be hired or just be relevant to my audience I will, but I am more often called upon to just play the music honestly, clearly and with some measure of joy. I can only do that if I start with simple materials.<br />
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Here's a story. When I was in high school we attended the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and I took part in a soloist competition for guitar players. I took second place out of 15 or so players. This surprised me at the time but not as much as hearing the guy after me. He played perfectly even bop eighth notes and had a superior harmonic grasp. He had it all over me with his vocabulary and his phrasing and I was inspired by this fact. I remember that for the rest of the day, I walked around listening to a mental muzak of even eighths over all kinds of changes played on the guitar of course. The sound of the guitar and the articulation of the pick was an important facet of that exercise in imagination. It was the beginning of an ongoing process. I had an ideal to aspire to. The ideal was this epiphany of what he and others had that I wanted. A sound. It got me asking all kinds of questions about the minutia of tone production and picking technique and chord scales. The simple stuff I needed work it out! The idea that I had a lot to learn was solidified when later that same day I took part (played a blues) in a jam session with Russell Malone and John Stowell. Russell was unbelievably fluid playing over Giant Steps at a fast clip and it made me aware that something I had never known was possible, was both possible and very, very compelling to me. Beautiful is the word for what I heard. His technique was seemingly flawless, the guitar was a hand-crafted Buscarino Monarch (featured on the cover of his album Black Butterfly), and his attitude toward the music and the musicians was humble yet assertive. John Stowell was less accessible to me at the age of 16 but no less compelling and I have been a fan of his music ever since and consider him an important friend and mentor. I was not prepared to understand it just yet but I was old enough to be inspired by it. He got me studying close interval voicings and harmony more carefully. I also learned the ins and outs of melodic minor thanks to John. John's influence led me to places of musical introspection and Russell's influence led me to ambitious musical extroversion. I have since thanked John for that Jam session which took place in his hotel room in Moscow, Idaho, many years ago. Thankfully there is still much I don't know and new facets of my ideal emerge daily. I do my best to chase the sound I'm after and make it mine. What I hope to do is make it relevant to the community of aging jazz musicians as well as the younger generation of innovators and basically play real nicely. I simply want to enjoy the music.Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-15423819483415920022010-03-03T10:33:00.000-08:002010-03-03T10:35:53.424-08:00Email with Tyler LiebDate: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:11:55 -0800<br />Subject: Hi Tyler,<br />From: danielrainard@gmail.com<br />To: tylerlieb@hotmail.com<br /><br />Hi Tyler, I am writing you from the Amsterdam near the coast of Namibia where we are making land fall tomorrow morning. This will be the end of 8 productive sea days and I wondered if you wouldn’t offer me some encouragement by letting this email act as my next blog post. I haven’t done much to the blog and I have a feeling that giving it a personal touch would do a lot for my motivation. I am basically really enjoying all this free time and wanted to share some of what I am learning/trying to learn. So here’s the first thing... Slash chords are pretty cool and useful. I’m enjoying D/Bb and C/Bb as voicings of Em7b5. It was also a sort of “aha” moment when I realized that moving that up a minor third would make it a suitable V chord in a minor ii-V-i, and that moving it up again this time by a major third would likely make it a great i chord. I don’t know if you’ve ever read the Mel Bay Complete Book of Harmony Theory and Voicing by Bret Willmott but, it is really ear opening and just too comprehensive. It is a tome which offers a really amazing education in its pages. Just playing through it has given me some really fresh ideas. I use band in a box and mute the chord instruments so I can have free reign over the middle voices and play thorough the examples that way. Good times. There aren’t any jazz musicians per se on the ship and I am certain that the level of repetition that I embrace in practice would drive any of them mad. So computers are good. On the other hand, I would never perform with one in place of a real band. In my experience tracks suck! I play shows sometimes where the act uses one or two and we just stand there. The second thing I am working on is reading and executing pentuplets with grace and precision. I have started by just alternating them with sixteenth notes using a metronome and playing combinations of 5 notes on different strings, using different articulations. Thirdly, I am working on 4 note licks to play in the various spots of Rhythm Changes where the harmony is briefly different from the norm. Specific licks to plug into those trouble spots where a tritone sub needs your specific attention. By practicing these licks you gain an awareness of what is really different about them (aurally and mechanically) and can proceed more intuitively. I don’t advocate lick based playing but it is a way to learn. <br /><br /> So how is Victoria treating you? What’s new? Don’t worry, your response won’t go on my blog unless you want some of it to. Thanks for letting me bend your ear or whatever the email equivalent is. <br /><br />All the best,<br />Dan<br /> <br />On 2/22/10 9:50 PM, "Tyler Lieb" <tylerlieb@hotmail.com> wrote:<br /><br />Great to hear from you!<br /><br />You can use this reply as a blog post if you want, although I don't know how much you'll find in it!<br /><br />Really neat insight on using slash chords... Whether as looking at them as "true" slash chords or inversions, they certainly open up neat doors. In terms of chords, voicings, and the like, lately I have been spending time at tedgreene.com, an amazing harmony resource. <br /><br />Try moving your JM based voicings up a half step from the altered V to make your I chords nifty maj7+5 chords. I love that trick. <br /><br />Have been studying with Mike Moreno over skype. Has been amazing. We have been talking a lot about phrasing, leading me to check out Hal Crook's How to Improvise book... Amazing. Having been spending a lot of time with his play/rest approach, and I think it's been doing good things for me.<br /><br />Pentuplets are scary. :)<br /><br />When are you back near this landmass?<br /><br />Tyler<br /><br /><br />Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-41698412997418571332009-08-19T10:11:00.000-07:002012-10-29T13:38:14.458-07:00Brendan Odonnell - Bringing It On<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I wanted to write something for my friend and fellow guitar player Brendan Odonnell. This kind of an open letter, as all blogs are I suppose.<br />
This young man is an inspiration to me and many others I know. I just want to publicly acknowledge that he is amazing and innovative and that I have supreme confidence that none of it will go unnoticed by the world at large. Big things are in store for this guy and I am exited to see them manifest. He is a devotee of Peter Bernstein and Mike Moreno. Kind of an old meets new kind of a guy but he has his own unique personality that comes across in every note. I admire especially his rhythmic ferocity and seeming ease with modern sounds. His use of motives is very compelling and I feel that there is a personal narrative being delivered in every extemporaneous moment. You're fresh Brendan!!! That is all. </div>
Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-66425672219333610772009-05-07T15:42:00.000-07:002009-05-07T16:24:21.032-07:00I played with Earl Klugh!Well today I am a very happy guitar player. I've never played with a better guitarist than Earl before in my life. I once played with Russell Malone but I was 16 and it didn't count! Both are great and I'm not going to make that call! Better is a designation I try to make of my present self compared to my former. I have paid a certain price for pursuing academic success and musical growth but what I was doing at 16 and what I'm doing now are different things. All in all, I'm grateful for the improvement colleges have helped to facilitate but I can honestly say that one song with Earl (after many hours of listening to and enjoying his music) was more inspirational and informative, more educational in the most practical way than most of what I learned in college. I have CWU and their faculty to thank for the opportunity to meet Earl of course and I understand that players like Earl cannot be commonplace in any college. I am just so glad I met him and heard him. <br /><br />As a solo guitarist, I rate him among the very best because he so easily strikes the balance between playing chords and melodies and he has fingerings which are specific to his vocabulary and fit so perfectly in the harmonic and rhythmic structure of a piece. When you listen to Earl, you are hearing someone who has practiced at great length and loves and cares for his music. I played one tune with him at the end of his talk on life on the road, a subject he knows plenty about. His story about playing at a casino and being paid in quarter a sum which weighed 50 pounds and later fell on his foot was a laugh. So, the clock was running down and I just had to ask if I could play a tune with him, which was "All The Things You Are." I played an intro and as the form began I think asked him if he'd play the melody since he was Earl Klugh. This was odd and funny and only overshadowed in its amusement by my taking the first solo, even after he played the break. I didn't know I was doing it until it was done. I guess I was thinking that maybe I shouldn't follow Earl Klugh! Earl's playing is gracious and fluid. Rhythmically you are always comfortable and often surprised and his harmonic vocabulary is second to none. He really has ears like Bill Evans. I can't think of another guitarist with his vast repertoire of substitutions and fluid chord melody chops. Anyway, I was trying to be present in the moment and not do anything stupid when I played some wrong chords and I apologize but I guess nerves got the better of me and I should have been paying attention to the music which was beautiful and joyous to my ear. I was hearing what could be as well as what was. Someone like Earl has a lot to teach us about dedication and its rich rewards. He makes the impossible look easy and I walked away feeling like I had just made a friend. He's an incredibly kind-spirited person and a natural mentor. I listened to the playback in my car and picked out all the flaws and missteps but for what it was I could not be happier. If we didn't make mistakes we wouldn't have to learn. <br /><br />I really want to transcribe more of his recordings and publish some articles on his chord melody stuff and substitutions. In other words I want to listen to more Earl Klugh and find more of his grace in my own playing and more of his kindness in my attitude. As he spoke he would often punctuate his words with a chord or two. His words and his music are coming from the same place. I wish I had more time to talk with him but I will probably have to settle for the hour and a half we had in the band room at CWU. That's where he told us about how he used to practice on the road and ask George Benson how to play stuff, which he would show him at Benson speed. He described how hearing something night after night would make an impression on you and if you were diligent in practicing you would find your way to it. I've got to play some guitar now and try to work out some of those amazing things I just heard. Today was just so good! If you ever get a chance to hear Earl, do. He and Denise were just wonderful and I feel so privileged to have met them. Music is a life long journey and a stop like this helps you remember where it is your going! Okay, enough blogging, I have to pick up a guitar now. <br /><br />-DanDaniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-27693708900713198382009-04-03T11:47:00.000-07:002012-10-29T13:40:34.669-07:00A technique which has not been widely duplicated.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Actually, I know of no other guitarist besides Pat Metheny who uses this technique and it's one that I really struggled to figure out, as it demands attention and a lot of practice. For my part I have been running this over different scales and on different string sets. One unique aspect of this technique is the way Pat changes positions with a hammer on. It's kind of like a musical long jump or triple jump. It's athletic. The second half demonstrates a kind of hammer-on tumbling, if you will. The idea of using hammer-ons in this way is one which will yield a lot of melodic inspiration if practiced properly. It is very economical and you need that at fast tempos. Pat's technique has obviously served him very well. There aren't any other guitar players I can think of who play 3 hour sets night after night, year after year. He's doing a lot of things right and we've have been listening. Hope you enjoy and watch the video on YouTube of "The Real Pat Metheny Lick".</div>
Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843434456591941338.post-79885385984984417372009-04-03T01:06:00.000-07:002009-04-08T11:35:33.470-07:00Hello and welcome!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0QdGzYiEwI4fycWZz8B75LgEz3OxJAigpWcTBWNlC1BE41dIoOmu5oJdJyHphj_P1dkcoYgMNjr1V_FEuNEwHXybJ13fFMeQnlbGfHIC0MnHs_565KkhGqrD13rKPGRz8lFT-lSHKnA/s1600-h/scofieldlick1.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0QdGzYiEwI4fycWZz8B75LgEz3OxJAigpWcTBWNlC1BE41dIoOmu5oJdJyHphj_P1dkcoYgMNjr1V_FEuNEwHXybJ13fFMeQnlbGfHIC0MnHs_565KkhGqrD13rKPGRz8lFT-lSHKnA/s400/scofieldlick1.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320396445128061570" /></a><br />This is my first foray into the digital domain and I am excited to be able to share what is my greatest passion, namely playing guitar. I have played guitar for 18 years now and am only just beginning to feel confident in my knowledge and application of the instrument. It has been great fun and a lot of work to achieve this sense of purpose. Here, I am going to talk about jazz guitar as it stands in the present. I will reflect on lessons from the past and I will certainly entertain notions of the future. A lot of this will be musing but I intend to provide thoughtful content in support of it. Here's a lick from John Scofield. I forget where I heard it exactly but it was on the A Go Go album somewhere. It's kind of a nice collection of notes and it rolls off the fingers in a way that is natural and supportive of good rhythm. I suppose this same lick could work over an G7#9, or a C9#5, but John put it here on a Bb7#9. It covers a lot of range very quickly. Sco's got a great feel for the guitar. When I met him at a CD signing after a concert in Vancouver, I told him that he wrote great idiomatic stuff for the 335 he plays. (I know it's an Ibanez.) He gave me a kind disparaging look, as if to tell me the word sounded too much like idiotic. Well, I meant what I said. He gets the goods out of his instrument on every song. I love that. The sound of a guitar, his guitar in this case is a major feature and it's exciting to hear its contribution to his tunes. They wouldn't come off as well on any other instrument. Perhaps "idiomatic" was not the correct term. It just doesn't sound right. Like the Freddie Green rhythm guitar I used to play on my Stratocaster in high school. Check out this bitchin' lick!Daniel Rainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10813904607878861116noreply@blogger.com0