12-String Musings: January 2009

Tips, Techniques, Examples about my favorite musical instrument, the Twelve-String Guitar.

If you play guitar check out Playing Technique, or Strings / Setup. There are also some interesting posts about guitars at, you guessed it, Guitars.

If you want to spread your musical talents around, you will find some good info at Recording.

Marketing - meh - I'm probably the world's best bad example. Although you could find funny stuff there.

I've made some music videos through the years, and you can find them and other interesting music at Music I Like, Music I Play.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

I'm slow and have no sense of time

I've been working on a piece called 'Track Stand' since June of 2007. It's an arrangement from Vivaldi's opus 3; I first heard it at a midi site years ago via a Sebastien Bach arrangement (Bach's Concerto No. 2 in A Minor BWV 593: 2nd Mvt- Adagio). The piece consists of a very familiar Spanish (perhaps originally Moorish) motif done in two alternating voices. It's very slow, and I find it difficult to make sure the voices both flow and are distinct from each other. I call it 'Track Stand' because it reminds me of sprint cyclists balancing their bikes at a standstill so they can get in a good draft position for the explosive ending sprint. Yesterday I discovered something disturbing.