PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at UT Austin. Currently writing about sound, experimental music, and urban change in Austin, Texas.

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  • Thanks! It’s a combination I think. Some lines are just the fingers leading and the sense of rhythm telling me to start a run and then stop when I hit a chord tone on a strong beat. Some are deliberate arpeggios that are meant to extend the chords underneath (I’m bad at this imo, but I think it’s pretty important to practice). Some lines are just the mind following the melody where it leads, only subtly aware of the chord tones (practicing singing the melody you’re playing is wonderful for this). And some are just licks :)







  • Kbin.social is (at least since I last checked like 30 minutes ago) federating, they removed the cloudflare ddos protection that was making federation impossible a few days ago. If you take a look at the kbin’s all page you’ll see plenty of material federating from lemmy.world and us over here on beehaw. You should be able to just search for kbin magazines with the regular Lemmy search, but I’ve found that to be inconsistent.




  • Fascinating. The origins of the method are a real rabbit hole too, I kinda miss the era where stuff like this would crop up on forums.

    For Spanish I‘ve been on a hour-a-day schedule combining reading a novel on lingq, duolingo (which is a handy review tool if nothing else), and verb form flash cards. I do plenty of extra stuff outside of that, watching shows and podcasts in Spanish, but the 10 hour a day timeframe advocated by the original L-R sources is definitely intense.

    Anyway, thanks for the write up! Some great sources here for sure.





  • Hey thanks! As for what it enables, it definitely allows for wider voicings to be under your fingers, and the tuning is more consistent until the highest string, so thinking across string groups is easier. A lot of your familiar patterns will sound interestingly shifted, and it makes you think about phrasing pretty differently.

    What you lose is some of the familiar, honky, close-together sounds of the guitar we’ve all grown up with. Playing a major or minor second (as opposed to a ninth) is pretty brutal.

    All in all, I’ve found it a useful way to expand musically, but it’s not a perfect experience, which is kinda what Fripp was going for when he developed it. There are absolutely some gorgeous chord voicings that I don’t ever wanna lose (kinda like the first time you ever slid an open C shape up a wholestep).