在我所Cover的Jassie Ware - Midight中,我在副歌時和弦大多的延續長度是八分音符。這裡需要注意的地方是,一個音符的長度其實相當重要。它可能因為不同的長度,而影響律動和情緒。所以影片中會用Midnight的副歌來做示範,以四種不同的音符長度來演奏,分別是斷音、十六分音符、八分音符、附點八分音符,看看有什麼不同的感覺。
This time in Techniques From Songs, we are going to talk about "Note Length". We will still using Jessie Ware's Midnight as example.
In my cover of Midnight, I play the chords mostly in 8th note. What we have to think about is that the length of a note so really important that it will affect the grooving and emotion of a song. So in this video, I am going to play the chorus of midnight in 4 different kinds of note length, Staccato, 16th, 8th, and dotted 8th, to compare the feel of different note lengths.
I believe we can all feel some differences in different note lengths, so remember to consider about this when you are trying to compose a rhythm next time.
The verse is actually not that friendly to guitar. So you can try just play 7th chords instead of 13th chords. That will still provide a decent sound while way easier to play. But for this video, let me try to twist my hand a little bit.
This time “technique from songs” is going to use Love Yourself by Justin Bieber to talk about open feel comping with barre chords.
Since there are already quite a lot videos are helping you to play this song, I am going to talk about this song in different way. About how to get the open feel comping in the verse.
Here is the progression of the verse.
As we can see, if we just play what we see on the chart, it will just be some barre chords with an interesting rhythm.
But we get an idea from the song, we play only the 5th and 2nd string, to achieve the open feel in the song!
Although, we can see most of the chords as a combination of root and a 3rd one octave higher, it’s actually easier to just skip some strings when you are trying to come up with a rhythm p art like that.
So let’s put this concept to a different chord progression and change the rhythm a little bit. I will use the chord progression form That’s How You Know by Nico & Vinz.
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這次 “technique from songs” 要用Justin Bieber的Love Yourself來討論開放感的封閉和弦伴奏方法。