The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
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Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.
It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.
The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
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