"Mrs.Goodmood" DADGAD- guitar by Morenoise

morenoise


Hi John, 


Hi Mark,  Thanks. I never think about "the beat" in these kind of pieces. I  compose short themes that could be in different time signatures or keys and when I have a couple that I like, I start arranging them in what ever sequence I like. The first thing I always do when recording. is turning of the metronome, glad you noticed 


Greetings, Rik

Hi Mr.Larry, thanks for listening, I march to my own beat anyway so don't worry .


Greetings, Rik

morenoise


Hi Clifford, thanks for listening. I don't think I've made it very clear how I compose. First of all I don't just jam pieces in where they don't seem to belong regardless of key or meter or care for the listener.

Well if that is the case then how come you seem to have these little confusion points  that lose the beat....or meter......

Because as you've said you turn off your metronome when recording....now you have some compositional idea that you are trying to play inside a meter (beat) and don't make it because you have no idea of the relationship of melodic line to the current meter / beat ......therefore your musical idea stumbles, there is a loss of musical structure and a loss of flow to your line......

kind of hard on the listener....but I guess as you state a little farther down you don't care because you do not consider yourself a musician, you march to your own beat  and don't care about accepted musical pratices so this should just be fine........


I find pieces that do fit together and make longer sections as a songwriter would do to make up a verse. To break the monotony I like my pieces to have a "bridge" section. In this case it's a little waltz.


The joy for me as a solo guitar player is that I can march to my own beat, I can slow down or speed up when I want to. That's something different than not caring about meter, it may not be the meter you like but there is a meter in there.

I'm not talking about a meter that "I" like or not......I'm talking  about just staying in tempo and having your melodic line fit within the tempo you are currently playing in without losing the pulse (beat / meter) .....

By turning off your metronome (or better yet I would guess that you do not even practice your composition with a metronome in the first place, before you record it so that you have a grasp of where the meter / beat is) you lose concept of (again) the relationship between melodic Line/idea to the pulse of your "composition" ..........and this shows in your recording because your are trying to Jam the melodic content into a section that it may not fit.....there fore you lose concept of your meter / beat.....

All great composers find the use of slowing down a "Little" and then Returning back to tempo,  a compositional / preformance practice tool that used all the time ......by musicians.....but they do not let it confuse them ......


To my best knowledge this piece has all the hammer-ons and pull-offs in the right places, again they may not be where you expect them or even would like them.


I'm not talking about the placement of your hammer ons or pulls....I'm talking about your lack of execution of them....there is a difference



Since I'm not a professional musician I have the luxury to play what I want and how I want. I don't even consider myself a musician, I'm a guitar player and just don't worry about accepted musical practices. If I would I don't think I would compose much anymore.


Gee that's too bad .......... How do you function if you do not even consider yourself a musician......you don't worry about accepted musical practices..... This view point I find very disturbing......

All musicians have the luxury to play what they want and how they want.....it is not decided by being a professional or not.....so that is not a valid point.....

How can you be "just a Guitar Player" and not a musician???? 

If you play guitar then you are a musician.....no matter if you can only play one note or have had years of training.....

Someone may not be in essence be a very good guitar player and therefore not be a very good musician......but they still are a musician nonetheless.......

If your not a musician.....and you don't care about standard practices then how do you even consider (by your opening line) yourself a composer????

That is kind of like hiring the guy down the block to find and fix a leak in your house just cause he has a Pipe wrench.....


Just a guitar player.......hhmmm........


Greetings,Rik

morenoise


Hi Clifford, thanks again for listening and caring.

I think the problem is that you think I made a remark at your expense in Vechungs thread, this wasn't my intention.

Absolutely correct !

I merely commented on the fact that Vechung was going through hoops to make his guitar noise free and I don't think you can do that without sucking the life out of our beloved noisemaker, the guitar. Rereading the thread of your composition I thought I was paying you a compliment on your composition, twice, and even called it a winner

if you would ad a real guitar since the sampled one doesn't sound like a guitar.

Again, you do not seem to comprehend my intention for that composition!

I am assuming then you did not read and / or comprehend my explaination to to you in V's thread.

Or even in my original opening post for that work........that is why a person puts opening remarks........so that the listener will have the proper perspective of what one is trying to accomplish....

If you do not read them and you do not comprehend them then you should go no farther and certinaly not comment!

You are stuck on only ONE thought process. You want to hear a real guitar........sorry.....ain't going to waste my time on that.....I have other things to do........

that composition was never intended to be anything other than a writing pratice exercise.......I do not know how to make it any Clearer!!!!!!

I have and never had any delusions of making it anything other than what it was....... A PRATICE EXERCISE..............................................................

there for it does not require a real guitar.......!!!!!!!!

A point that I have made to several forum members about the use of sampled guitars in their compositions.

About my use of the term compose : to make or form by combining things, parts or elements.


I stand by my hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Stand, sit or jog it does not change the fact that they were not executed well.....



I don't consider myself a musician because that would be an insult to musicians. I don't consider myself a guitarist for the same reason. I play the guitar and the guitar plays with me so I call myself a guitar player, makes sense to me. I do have a sense of humor , hence my screen name. Nomen est omen .

Well then since you do not consider yourself a musician, I cannot take you seriously...........Just a guitar Player......So sad.......

With kind regards, Morenoise a.k.a. Rik the guitarplayer.