This is a practice tape I made yesterday for a set that bassist Tim Dahl of a Brooklyn-based band named Child Abuse asked me to play on, Im opening for them as a soloist at Instants Chavirès here in the Paris region on 21 October 2014. Ill be playing trumpet, electric guitar and flutes, but I left the trumpet out on this recording since yall already know that bit. So do come to the set if you(re in the neighborhood to check that part out. The present recording starts with me on electric guitar. Im using a fingering picking technique inspired by my friend William Tyler. I havent fingerpicked since I was in my early twenties. If I lived in Mississippi, where Bill lives, I’d probably study with him, but since Im not I just listen to his records and tapes. The fingernails on my right hand sure as hell are not as long as his, but I managed to get by all the same, in my own way. The guitar is tuned in just intonation. The low string is a dropped D, and one of the other strings is an open minor seventh above that, but tuned to the seventh harmonic of the D string, so its much flatter than an equal tempered C. I love the sound of it. I get into an e-bow section a bit later on; this style of playing was inspired by my good colleagues in musical crime David Daniell and Adam Wills. I need to work on that section a bit to get it more under control, future tapes will follow! The flat picking techniques come out of G3, natch. Theres of course a little bit of my teacher La Montes The Well Tuned Piano in this, Im sure youll hear it in there somewhere! All hopefully put through a personal filter making it all my own voice. Special tip of the hat to Sarah Lipstate of Noveller, who encouraged me to lose the heavy Line 6 delay units I had been working with, to go through a Boomerang, which is much lighter for touring and live concert solo work. The guitar section is 20-minutes, followed by at 15-minute flute section that starts on bass flute, works up to alto and finally C flute. I hope that you like it.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:40:27 +0000
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