I am inexorably trying to make my sound feel like this. Not the trap of trying to make your instrument sound like this; but the long arduous, and beautiful journey of trying to communicate these same feelings, this same ache and longing, with my own instruments. It’s about touching something, for just a couple seconds, that might be a shadow of something we’ve long forgotten…and the hope of finding it again someday. And the feelings of sound, can be produced with anything that makes a sound…the instruments are only tools.
So, these songs are a small piece of the source of my tonal and musical sickness. Blame them when I buy another fuzz pedal, or when I turn on 7 delays and then hit one note for two hours. And definitely find your own source for your own musical sickness. Then you can buy more gear, and have something to blame it on. Score.
And apologies to get all serious again. And to post things that most likely, a good deal of you will find quite boring. But these things haunt me constantly, and I have to spit ’em at you every once in a while. ;) But I do encourage you to find your own muse of feelings you want to communicate, not just tones or techniques that you want to sound like. It opens up worlds of sounds, passions, longings, and new ideas, rather than just the same old tired blues scale. And nothing wrong with blues scales! Alright, I’ll bring it closer to home: rather than just the same old tired dotted 8th delay riff. Yep. I just said that. Watch out for the sky, folks. Ah, forget it! I need to go play a dotted 8th riff! Don’t judge me…I have weaknesses!
Communicate feel, not just sound.
Karl.
P.S. Ya, ya, and ‘splendid.’
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