zorrow Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 I noodle quite often and quite effectively. While watching TV, if there's music, I try to improvise on key and always care about timing, phrasing and all. If there's people talking, I try to find melodic and rhythmic patterns on the conversation and try to follow them -as there's pitch and rhythm in human voice after all. Also, sometimes I just play a chord or a progression before going off, and then keep that reference in my mind to start soloing. Sometimes I pick at random a rhythmic pattern on my keyboard, play some riffs over... and then start playing leads. But now I got a 7-string guitar... and you know what? I'm starting to think more "riffs" and "rhythm" than "leads". Now I just happen to "hear" rhythmic patterns on everything (a bird's whistles, my son's babbles, the blender sounds...) When I noodle with the 7-string guitar, it's like if my inner riff-machine had woken up. It puts me into a "percussion-oriented" mood, where polyrrthymic figures and patterns pop everywhere. Last thing I got was a CD of African drums and now I try to play percussive stuff on top of it. And when I listen to rap now, I play riffs; if I listen to pop, I play riffs... and if the dog barks, I still play fucking riffs! Conclusion: I had heard about how playing another instrument can unblock your creative juices, but never experienced it for myself. Ok, a 7-string guitar is NOT a totally different instrument, but you bet I am a new man now.
hardheartedbill Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 I got an old danelectro baritone that puts me in that space. Mine are more clint eastwood than metal but the low stuff is addictive. Now I want a multistring bass
velorush Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 1. While watching TV, if there's music, I try to improvise on key and always care about timing, phrasing and all. If there's people talking, I try to find melodic and rhythmic patterns on the conversation and try to follow them -as there's pitch and rhythm in human voice after all.2. Also, sometimes I just play a chord or a progression before going off, and then keep that reference in my mind to start soloing. Man, does my family find these practices annoying! Cue the whiny, "Dad! Please! Can't you go in your room with that?" It's not my fault they can't hear the continuation of the chord progression in my head. If only they could, they would grasp how absolutely brilliant the seemingly annoying single note lines actually are! Conclusion: I had heard about how playing another instrument can unblock your creative juices, but never experienced it for myself. Ok, a 7-string guitar is NOT a totally different instrument, but you bet I am a new man now. I had a similar "oh, wow" when I picked up the bass this past winter. It made me look at music entirely differently - it's more linear (for lack of a better way to describe it). Changed everything. Now I'm terrible, but in a completely different way.
zorrow Posted May 16, 2012 Author Posted May 16, 2012 Ozzy: "What the fog is a Beaver noodling"???It's eating spaghetti-like food in Chinatown.
BlueRedWhite Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 Ozzy: "What the fog is a Beaver noodling"??? It's eating spaghetti-like food in Chinatown. Ok..now i'm hungry. Chinatown on the weekend and YOU are paying, Sir!
Submariner85 Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 It's a gateway drug. Soon you'll be wanting an 8 string.
anotherfreak Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 I have an old 12 string I keep "open" tuneed to C# for that same very reason
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