Tricky Counting, Straight Saxes & Transposing Horns

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On this Strong Songs mailbag episode, Kirk answers your most pressing questions on subjects ranging from horn transposition, to why audiences have a hard time clapping on 2 and 4, to what the heck that sound is on the bridge to "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic."

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0:00.0	Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me.
0:02.0	All right.
0:05.0	There are a bunch of different possible ways to get a sound out of a guitar.
0:12.2	You can of course pluck the string with a pick. You can also
0:15.4	pull the string with your finger. You can hit the string with a long fingernail.
0:18.9	Or of course you could bow the string or hit it with a drumstick or do any of a number of other techniques.
0:24.3	The important thing is the string needs to vibrate and make sound.
0:28.2	Pass that, use your imagination. The And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, a Podcasts, about Music.
0:58.0	Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcast About Music.
1:01.0	I'm your host Kirk Hamilton, and I'm so glad that you joined me to talk about music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad that you
1:03.5	joined me to talk about music played by finger-style guitarists, music played by
1:07.3	guitarists using a pick, and sometimes music that doesn't have any guitar at
1:11.0	all. We've got a whole bunch of your listener questions to go
1:13.5	through on this Q&A episode and I'm excited to get into it. So turn up the volume, find a
1:18.3	comfy place to sit, and enjoy the show. I've been practicing a lot of guitar lately and the more I do it and
1:28.0	especially when my chops kind of loosen up and I get a little bit more comfortable with the
1:31.6	instrument the more I find that there really isn't that big of a difference between playing with a pick and playing with your fingers
1:37.4	In fact so many great players Jimmy Hendrix Stevie Ray Vaughn a lot of the greats kind of just switch between the two and you'll hear them kind of playing some things with their fingers and some things with a pick.
1:48.0	So I think there's not quite as much of a dichotomy between those two techniques as some people might think or as you might think
1:54.3	just watching somebody play guitar and they're actually kind of complementary the
1:57.8	more I practice finger-style guitar the more I find that that actually increases my sort of precision with the pick and when I play with the
2:05.3	pick a bunch I find that it gives me a different understanding of how the strings are laid out when I go back to
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