There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.
I don't know a high C from a low C.
I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.
The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest one of your left-hand fingers on a string directly above that fret and then pick it.
I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note.
The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
