In this episode of Prog-gnosis, Plini shows you how to take a simple chord progression that sounds like a child's lullaby and alter the chords to turn it into a prog song.
Plini is not technical but who cares dude? His songs are so beautiful His melodies are heart warming His phrasing is out of this world You don't need technique as long as you have these...
I like what you are saying, resonates with me. Even though I do not have the in depth theoretical knowledge. Rhythmically and melodically I feel the same way too!
How to turn a lullaby into a prog-metal song: just write a prog-metal song, you'll make half the audience fall asleep anyway. Chill, I'm a huge prog-metal fan. I just wanted to make a joke at the expense of my favourite subgenre
Well, Yngwie is a brilliant guitarist you can't deny that even if you don't like him. But yes he is a total arrogant twat. I love his playing, hate his personality. Wish he would learn to keep his shitty comments to himself.
This is exactly why his music is both deep and accessible -- the core of good composition is, well, good composition, on the most basic level. Complicated music with no core musicality is just poor structuring. Some of the most complex and well-regarded music in history, i.e. in the classical vein, tends to be incredibly coherent structurally, and at root playable as a two-handed piano piece. I'm realizing more and more that all these prog musicians that will likely have some place in history began with accessible, straightforward music, and are more than capable of writing such a song -- they have a fantastic grasp of the basics, and usually a relatively diverse "back catalogue", in terms of what they learned.
Most of what he said is just intervals. 30 mins on youtube and you'll get it. Understanding music theory isn't difficult. Applying it consciously is the difficult part if you want to get away from stumbling onto cool stuff and actually create it.
I just realized I've been saying the name Plini wrong lol. Good shit even I play bass. Doesnt directly apply to me. I just love hearing his music, and love how makes the point of having that bass guitar kick in all his songs.
Dude.... I just saw Pat Metheny. He was wearing a black T shirt and smiling a veeeery wide grin while listening to those clean chimey chords.... Just sayin'!! Keep up the great stuff!
The point is just to create an interesting harmony that supports the melody and the vibe you re going for. Could be any interval really, thats up to you. But yeah he was thinking diatonically
It's all diatonic until those last two chords where he changes the one note on the B string that he mentions in the video, but yeah, that's exactly the idea
It's two notes held by one finger...lol. One note above & one below. That's a stacked forth. So if you have two fingers holding one note above & below, you have stacked fourths. The sixth note could be the degree in the scale from where the first stacked fourth is being held. Stacked fourths a sixth degree apart. That's one of those things that I think piano players can't do very well which is super easy on guitar.
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A strandsberg is about a $100 buck on Ali Baba, so you not very good. However, think of the ergonomics of a 5-lb Strandberg better for your back & your hands for playing the guitar.
He writes in a few tunings. For example; Electric Sunrise is in drop Db, Selenium Forest is in Eb standard, and some songs on “Handmade Cities” use the tunings Eb-Bb-Eb-Ab-C-F and the seven strings on that album are tuned to drop Ab.
