Seems to me that nowadays I have combo blog entries.
I want a classical guitar with electric pickup. I want it so badly that it is just not rational anymore. I just want to own one.
But why?
My old classical guitar is falling apart. I write music using a classical guitar. I want to record my music using just the classical guitar for my upcoming website.
Lunch time, I walked from Dhouby Ghout MRT station all the way back to the office stopping at the guitar shops at Paradis Center area and Peninsula Plaza area. Yes, it is a bloody long walk. Too bad, I did not have my car key with me.
Believe it or not, I have tried the $2,650 Taylar classical guitar and I just can’t appreciate it. I tried the Takamine again and it still touches my heart. The Taylar guitar I tried is made with spruce top while the Takamine one is made with cedar. To be honest, I have no idea how different these two kinds of wood will sound.
I messaged my friend Jonathon for help and he told me (via sms of course) that spruce top is for clarity and provides good tremble while cedar top is for the volume. Fair deal. No wonder!
The fact that I strum the classical guitar (and he asked me why I strum a classical guitar, not supposed to!) probably explain why it did not sound that impressive. If I was to play the classical guitar in a proper manner, most likely I would fall in love with the Taylor.
I am pretty much decided on the brand. Just that the pretty shop assistance still has not get back to me what I can get within my budget. Driving me insane.
Question: what would a songwriter who has lost the inspiration do? Yes, digging up the ghost. I dug up one song that I have half finished more than a month ago. That song was written when I woke up early for warm-up prior to one of our jamming sessions.
I managed to figure out how the song sounded like (I did not record then and I should have, instead I wrote down the notes) and it clocked at 2.30 mins. Today, I picked up the song again and instead of continue writing the song, I just repeated the majority of the song with a twist. There you go! I have the song!
So, why didn’t I continue to write somemore? It is because very few audience can appreciate the songwriting style of mine (one piece with verses of different melody going freeform, i.e. no defined structure, and seldom repeat). So, the key is to identify the “hook” and keep repeating it. It seems to be a winning formula of all the rock and pop songs. How original?! I mean, why do anyone want to keep listenning the same segment of the song again and again – in the same song?? All they need to do is just to repeat the song and there you go! Again, cannot understand how we human being appreciate music.