Developing creativity
with M.A.M.I.
- In order to develop your musical "style" creativity
is a must.
- Most guitarists, indeed most musicians have a desire to create at some
point in their lives.
- The million-dollar question seems to be...how do I?
- You
must start by removing your fear of rejection.
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- To create is to run the risk of
failure and rejection, plain and simple.
- One simply cannot create while fearing
the results of their creation.
- This said, creativity is a process (often a
difficult one) that involves "vision".
- In large measure, tapping into the
creative process has
- much to do with expanding one's "vision".
Creative minds generally
visualize using one of two
approaches.
- With the first approach, similar things are made into something different or visualized as being made different.
- Let's say that you have a nice melody, riff, or chord
progression in a beginning in a certain position on a certain string.
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Try
playing the exact same line say, a Minor (flatted) Third away and see how it
sounds.
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Continue to do this until you are back to your original position. What
do you think?
- Did you find something you could use?
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- Try the same thing using a
Flatted Fifth interval spacing. What do you think? Anything useful?
- Remember: the creative process involves experimentation. Not everything is going to
work, but experiment on your guitar.
- Find
patterns and play them in different places on the instrument, as this is usually
a good beginning toward the process.
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- The second approach involves making
different (or visualizing how to make different) things similar.
- An example
of this way of thinking would be to take two of your favorite melodies, riffs,
or chord progressions from
- different keys and then playing them in the same key.
How did that sound? What did you learn? Can it be used?
Check out Pat
Martino's deep revelations. Geno
White's unique sound and approach! Ralph
Patt completely rethinking the way the guitar is tuned. Joe
Beck with his "Alto Guitar" tuning.
They are definitely the product of experimentation and time spent doing
brilliant and creative guitar thinking!
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Experienced players
understand the importance of patterns for creating music.
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Fortunately, the layout
of a guitar's fingerboard is ideally suited towards finding and playing patterned
ideas.
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Often these patterns can be transposed to different roots.
Pattern generation and transposition is
- a valuable creative method that can be
used effectively to make
- music on the guitar. Be sure to experiment with this
concept.
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- I have included an offer for a free M.A.M.I. Music Scale Atlas
to help you
easily
- find and create musical ideas and patterns. It will "open up"
your instrument, allowing you to
- see patterns plus chord,
scale, and modal relationships you would have never thought of.
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- M.A.M.I.
Scale Atlases are ideal for experimentation.
- They boost creativity, and save
time throughout the learning process.
If you haven't already...take some time to
evaluate the sample.
- Spend a few minutes understanding the concept...
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on the M.A.M.I. Scale Atlas concept
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