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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:56 am
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Shreddin wrote:
... Another tip that I find VERY useful (and this is because you do have some piano background) is to think of the melody lines of a piano while trying to get more involved with a certain section of a song or even for soloing. That even helps to lay out a rhythm track since you'd be used to using your left hand to do that anyway on the piano. :wink:


So true, great point. Another thing I used to do (and still do at times) is to try to play the melody of spoken words, or read the newspaper and play the notes I hear when I read those words. For instance....

"Fender Strats are my very favorite guitars in the whole wide world."

...Can be played musically in a ton of different ways. Some people might hit a high note and accent the word "very", or have more of a melodic range when they speak those words. If you read that line bored, you'll speak different notes and sound very monotone. If you're passionate about strats, you'll "play" that completely different, have more of a range, more dynamics and give a very different feeling about those same words. The words and the message have not changed at all, but your feeling and delivery of those same words can have totally different meanings depending on HOW they're spoken, sung or played. I try to keep that in mind when I'm playing and writing.


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