OK, well here’s some “noodling”. In guitar, it’s just fucking off. It’s not a song, never will be. It’s raw, it’s unedited. Basically a combination of brainstorming while doodling.
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Yay for noodling!
I never knew noodle could be used as a verb.
Maybe someday I will have to post something like this with me playing harp or french horn, (with or without the aid of vodka).
Fun!
I especially like the stuff that happens between 3:40 and 4:00.
Thank you. 🙂
Yeah, it’s a blast. Sure you could read 100 books on musical theory. Or just play, find something that works. The few “theory” things I know are from curiosity of why it sounds good.
We should totally make an sp song. Everyone record something and then blend it up.
Can you sing and play at the same time?
I remember it was hard to play piano (or harp) while singing, because my brain had to pay attention to two things at once (AND still remember to breathe).
Yes and no. There’s a few songs I learned, where the strumming and syllables are in sync.
But for the most part no.
I remember during an interview, Mike Mills (the R.E.M. bass-player guy I had the hots for) said that the most difficult part of the job was singing harmony at the same time as a bass line.
Because the notes and rhythms didn’t match each other, his brain had to remember two lines at once.
He called it a “bifurcation of the brain”, which is such a delightfully nerdy term I squished into happy nerdy mush right then and there.
(Some parts more than others).
many different styles and influences are hidden in this (imo), and it sounds like a complete song to me, and the ending is very nice too. it somehow merges with me while I walk inside my soul.
Thanks. Curiosity, what do you hear?
I hear mountains and forests somewhere deep in Asia, then it takes me to old abandoned village deep within American desert, and from there shifts into blurred out distance with lights fading out over the earth. And I get lost with my minds listening to it, which is a good feeling. (I never been in Asia or Us, so don’t know how I end up there in this song, but I did).
That’s pretty cool amazing, since it was all just bored on a sofa
I like the chord-suspension at 3:25 and the chord resolution at 3:30.
There’s a similar suspension at 3:52 except this one resolves to a minor chord at 3:55.
I know absolutely squat about noodling. Even less about how to play guitar.
I did listen to this. Thank you for sharing it. It sounds like you keep changing style intentionally. like in your mind you are working through once cycle of style and then cycle into another.
That’s noodling. Just play, something strikes you, play it again. No rules, no thinking, no objective.
at 4:10 – 4:20 it sounds like Nirvana
I hear that too. It’s bound to show up. I borrow so much of my style from Kurt and Gavin (Bush) that most my playing has an angsty grunge to it
That’s cool. I totally hear Sublime in it. Thanks for sharing.