Comments on: Lab report June 12th 2008: being the odd-one-out http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/2008/06/26/lab-report-june-12th-2008-being-the-odd-one-out/ Stet Lab is a space, based in Cork, Ireland, for improvised music. A celebration of the diverse practices of improvisation (whether you call it free improvisation, open improvisation, idiomatic, non-idiomatic, pan-idiomatic, etc), Stet Lab is a musical meeting place for improvisers of varying backgrounds (whether novice, veteran; student, teacher; part- or full-timer; local or visitor). Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:37:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: teaching diary 08/10/08: diplomacy « Safety First http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/2008/06/26/lab-report-june-12th-2008-being-the-odd-one-out/#comment-61 teaching diary 08/10/08: diplomacy « Safety First Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:39:25 +0000 http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/?p=47#comment-61 [...] is actually the first time I play in the 2008–2009 Safety First class. Like I’ve said elsewhere, I’m a little stuck in this post-Campbell pseudo-bluegrass mode. (Doesn’t help that my right [...] [...] is actually the first time I play in the 2008–2009 Safety First class. Like I’ve said elsewhere, I’m a little stuck in this post-Campbell pseudo-bluegrass mode. (Doesn’t help that my right [...]

]]> By: han http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/2008/06/26/lab-report-june-12th-2008-being-the-odd-one-out/#comment-14 han Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:01 +0000 http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/?p=47#comment-14 One more thing: since that Lab, I’ve been semi-stuck (and not in an unpleasant way) in the post-Campbell pseudo-bluegrass mode. One of the hardest things for a guitarist (in particular, perhaps, former-pianist guitarists) to learn was to tightly synchronized your left and right hands’ motions. There’s no point in articulating a string with your right hand if your left hand’s not in position (stopped, muted or otherwise). Consequently, one of the most interesting exercises was trying to unlearn that—to break that left-right link. An interesting side-effect of this is trying to create a kind of Oxley-esque multiple meter feel; something I kinda stumble upon around during <a href="http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/listen/#anchor_06-12-08" rel="nofollow">‘toilette bourgeoise’</a> (fast forward to about 4:20). It’s half-baked in this performance, but I’m working on it; it’ll be something I’ll be looking into… One more thing: since that Lab, I’ve been semi-stuck (and not in an unpleasant way) in the post-Campbell pseudo-bluegrass mode.

One of the hardest things for a guitarist (in particular, perhaps, former-pianist guitarists) to learn was to tightly synchronized your left and right hands’ motions. There’s no point in articulating a string with your right hand if your left hand’s not in position (stopped, muted or otherwise). Consequently, one of the most interesting exercises was trying to unlearn that—to break that left-right link.

An interesting side-effect of this is trying to create a kind of Oxley-esque multiple meter feel; something I kinda stumble upon around during ‘toilette bourgeoise’ (fast forward to about 4:20). It’s half-baked in this performance, but I’m working on it; it’ll be something I’ll be looking into…

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