There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.
I don't know a high C from a low C.
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.
It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.
The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest one of your left-hand fingers on a string directly above that fret and then pick it.
The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.
I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
