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Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:55 pm
by mathias
ms1012 wrote:i was in a rut a few weeks ago. listened to a shit ton of classical music, especially from different countries. classical Indian music in particular is fucking crazy, and got me out of playing similar sounding things. same with a few russian composers. basically, i think foreign music helps break you out of your normal playing style. idk maybe it's just me
There's this process where you try to draw with the image turned upside down, so that your visual processing doesn't turn it into a visual "symbol" and you just see lines, shapes, shade, etc. I wonder if listening to different music helps break your brain out of hearing chord progressions, verse-chorus-verse, discrete instruments (I tend to do this to analyze a song), etc. and lets you hear more of the tone, timing/rhythms, harmonies between instruments, and overall sound that you might not otherwise hear.
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:14 pm
by theavondon
SPACERITUAL wrote:Listen to some melvins.
No shit.
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:18 pm
by CBGB
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:20 pm
by madmax1012
mathias wrote:ms1012 wrote:i was in a rut a few weeks ago. listened to a shit ton of classical music, especially from different countries. classical Indian music in particular is fucking crazy, and got me out of playing similar sounding things. same with a few russian composers. basically, i think foreign music helps break you out of your normal playing style. idk maybe it's just me
There's this process where you try to draw with the image turned upside down, so that your visual processing doesn't turn it into a visual "symbol" and you just see lines, shapes, shade, etc. I wonder if listening to different music helps break your brain out of hearing chord progressions, verse-chorus-verse, discrete instruments (I tend to do this to analyze a song), etc. and lets you hear more of the tone, timing/rhythms, harmonies between instruments, and overall sound that you might not otherwise hear.
i think so. i mean, listening to Sitar music nonstop broke me out of the pentatonic scale. speaking of, listen to Sitar music
fucking amazing instrument
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXk_8_8oLY[/youtube]
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:53 pm
by eti
Play an instrument you don't normally play.
Hook up your effects in reverse order, or in ways you'd never normally try.
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:53 pm
by magiclawnchair
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4nAGtdkU88[/youtube]
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:56 am
by Wes Mantooth
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone, I think I'm getting there.
My friend turned me on to a band called Gay Beast and I quite dig them
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:02 pm
by mathias
I found this on
another guitar forum (cough cough) and thought it was appropriate for this thread:
If you drive to work, take a different route. Or better yet walk. If you like your peanut butter creamy, buy chunky. if you write on guitar, try plunking some notes on the piano. call up someone you've lost touch with. get up and hour earlier. grow a moustache. listen to chinese traditional music. cross the tracks. go buy a short you don't like and then wear it. change your level of personal hygeine. perform random acts of kindness to complete strangers. experiment with paper clips. buy a goldfish. play games with salt. seek and destroy your routines. establish new ones and then destroy them too.
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:10 am
by tuffteef
sooooooo some more of my studio chronicles
i have secretly been studying latin rhythms
and we had this tight latin percussion come into the studios and lay down some hot return and call stuff
SEXY
and they dropped this bad boy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TXFmZHnMYs[/youtube]
and a smokin version of a guaguanco
fun day
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:26 pm
by Wes Mantooth
All this new music is awesome, I feel like my writing is becoming more diverse but I need to improve my chops and learn some theory.
Any good literature I should check out?
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:50 am
by sweetbabyphil
Maybe check out some online vids? It helps me out a lot more than reading up on stuff. Youtube is always a good source and I'd recommend TruFireTV
http://truefire.com/tftv/index.html You get a month free when you sign up and there's a lot of good stuff on there. Plus, I just keep signing up with new e-mails cause I ain't paying for shit.
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:27 am
by snipelfritz
tuffteef wrote:sooooooo some more of my studio chronicles
i have secretly been studying latin rhythms
and we had this tight latin percussion come into the studios and lay down some hot return and call stuff
SEXY
and they dropped this bad boy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TXFmZHnMYs[/youtube]
and a smokin version of a guaguanco
fun day
Me gusta. Me gusta mucho. I <3 Latin percussion. I also dig on Afrobeat. Listen to this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWRjgathjA[/youtube]
He sounds so calm at the beginning then WHAM!
you have a groovy musical onslaught annihilating your facial cavities. This was the first of Fela Kuti I ever heard, and needless to say I was fucking breathless, absolutely blown away.
Re: I'm in a rut with my playing
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:46 pm
by madmax1012
reached a plateau recently. not really sure where to start next. idk what happened, but it kinda came out of nowhere
