“The blues is a feeling, you can’t get it out of no book. You can’t write the blues on a piece of paper, you just feel the blues.” -John Lee Hooker In these Musical Evolution blogs, we’ve typically looked at the development of the sound of specific bands. And as it turns out, a [...]
Continue Reading →“I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.” -Paul McCartney A couple blogs ago we looked at the Four Chord Song, which had the chords I V vi IV. Every pop and rock ballad right [...]
Continue Reading →“It’s not like us making this effort to move around. It’s like it’s us making an effort to surrender and let the music ragdoll us like a wave.” -Flea The Chili Peppers are a hard band to pin down. They’ve continued to evolve over the course of their career since 1983, bringing in new [...]
Continue Reading →“Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!” -Leonard Cohen If you haven’t yet, you should check out this video by comedy-band Axis of Awesome, called “4 Chord Song”. There are several versions of it out there, and they’re all great. Here’s one [...]
Continue Reading →“…The way it’s gonna end up should be a surprise; the game is the making, and not what you end up with.” -Sam Beam Iron and Wine is one of those stage names that can make it hard to figure out just who’s in the band (like Pink Floyd or Jethro Tull – “Which one’s [...]
Continue Reading →“Play this part, and don’t ever change it! But be sure to never ever play it the same way twice”. -Joe Zawinul In any piece of music it’s important to have a kind of balance. (Unless of course what you’re trying to express through your music is the feeling of imbalance – remember, music has [...]
Continue Reading →“I heard T-Model’s first album, Pee-Wee Get My Gun, when I was about 18 and immediately loved it. It was so stripped down and raw, I almost couldn’t believe it was real. I loved the propulsive, hypnotic thing that happens when you’re making the most out of the most minimal instrumentation.” -Dan Auerbach In this [...]
Continue Reading →“Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it’s humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they’ll eventually go away, and you’ll become a strong player.” -John Petrucci Practicing music is a tricky thing. Not because it’s physically hard, but [...]
Continue Reading →“When I started writing Sabbath stuff it was just something that sounded right. I didn’t think I was going to make it Devil music.” -Tony Iommi In this episode of Musical Evolution, we’re going to dig into the dark past of the grandfathers of metal: Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath have themselves been a [...]
Continue Reading →“If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.” – Keith Richards A band’s sound is like a crock pot. Toss in a bunch of ingredients and let it stew. You’ll end up with a pretty different [...]
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