How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.
What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there's a blend to it. The voices have to blend.
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.
With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.
We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things you hear in our songs work as submelodies and countermelodies, and everything has to fit.
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
My harmonies on 'Me & My Dog' are a little extra.
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.
Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes naturally to me. A lot of my music is like that.
There is nothing more beautiful for a musician to listen and see harmony.
I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.
Once you've developed some technical facility on the guitar, the musical side (which entails theory, harmony, chord structure, ear training, sight-reading, composition and being able to hear chord progressions and licks) comes into play a lot more.
It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.
