Can you free yourself and see music in 3-D? Spartacus says yes!
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Guitarists are taught to look on a two-dimensional piece of paper to see linear lists of tasks to do. So like a servant or slave we make a straight line down in a one or two dimensional consciousness. Music is multi-dminetional and the elements of composition are very much like orbiting planets. It is far better, to free yourself from the confines of "linear slavish" tasks, and start seeing that the musical world is round and NOT FLAT. Just like a planet orbits around a 12 month cycle, it is represented in music by the 12 bars in the blues.On a real planet the weather changes, on a "musical planet" the common tones or the values of what is being played changes.....
I don't know how far I can take the analogy of the solar system, but I can assure you that music is being taught as if the world was flat..... That is, it's being taught in a two-dimensional framework. Okay let's have some fun... What if each bar was one rotation of planet music and the day represents a one measure riff made up of 4 beats (seasons). After 12 of those bars (rotations), the planet (made of riffs) has orbited the sun, and another year begins. We must start looking at music, and hearing music in a three dimensional mindset, which is something that we must construct in our minds through real music appreciation exercises and ear training with a bona fide guitar Maestro.
Let's continue with the analogy fun please… Let's say the riff is like a person on planet Earth. Let's say that person is on a farm and doesn't move for whole year. Even without moving, environment changes each month and through the four seasons. This is similar to sequential fixed phrase, which is where he repeat the same notes or note and allow the chord changes to alter those same notes by adding the feeling of let's say musical snow on fourth beat for winter LOL… In other words just getting feelings about the weather is fine, but to be a meteorologist requires a three-dimensional understanding of the planetary system, as well as the earth systems. If the weatherman is just reading down a list of projected temperatures then they are similar to what is now the standard for guitar players. Just read the guitar teleprompter… Oh and by the way, the next stage from there is for the guitarist to shut up.
It's true… There is a performance with Keith Richards on Saturday Night Live with top studio players who were just standing there not playing during all the verses, which were long. I don't care if Keith Richards is in the real Rolling Stones and I don't care how much money they are being paid, those guys standing there and even moving and posing without playing looked pathetic.
Do you to be someone who can play "stairway to heaven" at a party, or do you want to be a breakthrough guitarist that breaks through because the skill is mastered and therefore the personal "whatever it is" has a chance to come through. Everyone has something unique. All you have to do is create a situation where that personal or "soul expression" can be realized, and then what you bring to the table of life will be realized and appreciated by others.
In conclusion, it is ludicrous to go down a list of notes as if it is the complete purpose because the values and meanings of those notes change drastically as the musical seasons or progressions interact each note or phrase. Free yourself now from the tyranny of misunderstanding. Spartacus of guitar offers you the freedom to see music in a three-dimensional construct and interact within amazing fun of that realization. Here's a gift for reading this article:
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