Dissonance! Weirdness! - how to find the right wrong notes
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- In this video I'm discussing a few ways you can bring a bit of dissonance and unpredictability to your playing. Tab of my intro solo and other examples from the video can be found on my Patreon page, along with my backing track (pay what you like): / anyonecanplayguitar
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00:00 Hi
01:03 Intro solo
03:47 Right notes, wrong notes
6:25 In between notes
07:23 Chromaticism
08:35 Major & minor 2nds
11:15 Unison bends
13:00 Outside sounds
18:54 Wide intervals
20:28 Using effects
Bye 22:21
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Tom Verlaine’s solo on Marquee Moon is the one that I’ve always wanted to replicate, even if it sounds like he’s off key and off tempo… it’s just genius playing
I have been relying on stupidity, but I am open to other methodologies :).
nicely played
Ignorance is my friend.
😂 same
Oh recently I’ve advanced beyond stupidity and now I’m really loving relying on sheer boneheadedness and outright wilful ignorance! (Better not watch anymore of these videos I guess if I want to keep this up)
I feel ya! Sadly, I’m just a truly incompetent guitarist …
I’m so happy that this guitar lesson exists. The intro solo is exactly the kind of guitar playing I like and have genuinely struggled to figure out how to do.
Sounds great, reminds me of something you might hear on the Twin Peaks third season
In that case, Eric Haugen's lessons on Marc Ribot and 'skronk' (Eric's own term, I think) could be of interest to you, too.
This is such a great topic.
Agreed! Just started watching and I am super excited.
*Me; a big brained guitarist*; "just play blues pentatonics with a ring mod, then you don't have to learn anything..."😂😂 Nah props man, you post some of the most consistently creative, entertaining and informative guitar based lesson content on youtube, and have done for quite some time and I really appreciate it. Thinking outside the "blues box" and checking some of my favourite guitarists, like Ron Ashton, McGeoch, Roland S Howard and Mark Ribot...no one else on YT is teaching this stuff, great stuff man, thanks for all the licks 🤟
Marvellous stuff. Of course, you have immediately pin-pointed the glaring difference in our relative playing styles: Yours is stylish, artful and relevant. Mine is comically hamfisted and accidentally dis-artfully atonal. To deliberately misquote Eric Morecombe: All the wrong notes, and almost exclusively in the wrong order. Vive La Difference!
A great subject for a video, and one that has always appealed to me. I like the idea of a chaotic sound, like maybe playing in time while you're falling down a flight of stairs or being tossed about in the surf.
I love the way that you have honed the art of dissonance and sonic weirdness to such a level of precision. My playing is so awful that tension, random and , sadly, predictably duff notes seldom achieve a level of what could be considered masterpieces. Cacophonous is a more accurate description. Thank you Adrian. Yours is the best guitar channel on UA-cam.
I'm reminded of Les Dawson on the piano, for those old enough to remember. He was actually a good pianist and it took a lot of skill to play that wrong.
Wishing very much that I had just an ounce of Les Dawson’s skill…
And let's not forget Eric Morecambe who played all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order ☺
Don't let anyone under 60 join this thread!
His daughter said he would spend all sunday practising piano, and they would beg him to do the wrong notes.
was looking at Marc Ribot and Duane Denison the other day for some of this, great stuff
Robert Quine is my dissonance king.
Reall useful lesson. Duane Denison used dissonance a lot in The Jesus Lizard. Would love if you could do a lesson on one of their songs. Amazing band.
Yes! I immediatly thought of them when he talked about the 2nd intervals, Duane Denison uses them in Then Comes Dudley, I think. I hope Adrian does a video (or better yet, videos) on them. Monkey Trick, Karpis and Rodeo in Juliet are the songs I most want to learn.
Great lesson, exactly what i was looking for, more of this please!
Huge fan of your channel. Love this topic. Thank you!
This is something I’ve been looking for forever, glad you were the one to make the video. Great as always
I really like the dissonance you get between a 3rd and 4th of a chord, especially used on a dominant V chord. Any half step dissonances can be cool
I really appreciate your attitude, mindset and taste in music.
Thank you so much.
Love these types of vids about this type of playing. These'll be great fun to play and will certainly catch the ear of the listener. Brilliant teacher as always and Ive learnt so much from the channel.
Great topic indeed! While the first players that come to my mind are Marc Ribot and Robert Quine, I think more recently Josh Homme has a truly original voice in this regard. Great stuff. Thanks
Great lesson Adrian!! Nothing annoying about your solo. That was great!! Thank you!
Love this. Usually just find happy accidents when I'm learning something or trying out different picking and strumming patterns to make it more interesting. Sometimes a simple pull off on one note in a bar chord or Josh Homme's drunken stumble technique. But these are some excellent ideas on how to think about this with intent. Thank you for sharing.
🥰Thanks! I think I had emailed a request for a lesson like this. I figured of all the youtube guitar gods, you'd be the one to take it *this* seriously! Would love to learn more.
Good material and presentation, thank you!
Adrian, if you make a video series how to write alternative songs it’s going to be a smash hit!
You just gave any level guitarist,a perfectly delivered lesson!,,,,
Love you style!!!!!
Couldn't agree more about the modern players. It's all phenomenal technique seemingly at the expense of feel and the song!
This is fantastic!
I comment on this video but it could be on any other. You always find interesting and varied things to teach. My respects and congratulations Adrian. Greetings from Argentina
There's such a great solo in Miracle Mile by Silkworm. It's exactly an acoustic guitar song with a blown out solo!
Sounds excellent, I'll check it out!
My solos always sound like this 😅 great vid - a good balance of harmonic/disharmonic makes a song great.
In germany 90ies they said „Auf Danzig, tanz ich!“ - i dance to Danzig - great shirt as always, Adrian
Brilliant video
I’ve been playing around with this for years
My wife will come in and say that sounds awful, and I tell her that’s right it’s supposed to!
Every now and again I’ll find something that really works just by accident
great lesson, thank you!
Great lesson. Watching with a lazy Sat breakfast :). Someone above mentioned the Jesus Lizard. They’d make a great lesson!
This video is a perfect example for why I love your channel! Oh, and cool Danzig shirt...would you do a tutorial for a song from the first four albums?
What a great example and very interesting ideas. Some parallels to Neil Yound and Crazy Horse. :-) I really enjoyed your music, definitely! Very progressive and intelligent and cream for my ear. Amazing! Subscribed! (/from Germany)
Wow, would never of had you down as a Danzig fan. (I only count the first 4 albums)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Masters of this stuff.
Marc Ribot 😉
Yep, no question.
Yeah, and maybe Robert Quine and Tom Verlaine while you're at it.
Came here to say the same.
THIS IS GOLD 😀
QUINE LIVES HERE! or maybe Ivan Julian?
Yes, both heroes of mine!
We need more Voidoids vids
ring modulator is also a great effect to add some chaos
Loved this one Adrian. 8 miles high, definitive gaze, muscle in plastic, happy death men. Oh yes😀
Glad you are still here
Derek Bailey was the master of that
He was indeed, love DB!
This is fantastic
Great as usual! This isn’t really my kind of thing but I certainly appreciate it. It’s hard enough for me to make good music sound good and play it straight… Very little time to try to cock it up without having to do so already 😆. The jazzmaster is a great weapon of choice for all kinds of music.
Chris Whiteley second album specially Oh lord my heart is ready now
Great video....as usual
Don't know Chris Whiteley but I must take a listen.
Or search for Long Way Around at House of Blues.
Brilliant!
Good job🎸👍
Great video. Side note, please begin offering face-to-face tuition in London again soon!
love that one Adrian, wish we could collaborate on some ideas one day, by the way, how about 'five stop mother superior rain' by the flaming lips?
being a ballad with some noise feedback that goes down pretty well doesn't it?!?!?!
thanks so much for your content and music❤
Love a bit of Les Dawson on the piano!
A little Robert Quine; maybe a little Peter Laughner... love it.
The Cleveland - New York Axis, 1975
This is a great video. This is one of the missing links for me.
Sounds like my normal solos!
That was actually a pretty good solo!
Dementedness comes naturally to some people. Love it.
Reminded me of Joey Santiago.
I just found the perfect octave fuzz for my cramps playing. Idiotbox Ron Swanson Super Fuzz, Univox clone.
I fucking love you mate . I don't care who knows it .
Brilliant Vid Totally agree with you.....Now can you teach me how to play "My guitar gently weeps".???
Tastes like Richard Thompson!😊
Your Marc Ribot underwear is showing!
Excellent lesson, thank you-
Joey Santiago is the taste master of the unison bend
He’s a master of using dissonance in general. He uses a lot of outside notes.
You could have shown us to play the Adrian Belew solo from the Talking Heads song the great curve.
Dissonance instantly brings to mind the Mars Volta and the wonderfully wierd musical language of Omar Rodriguez Lopez. Aberinkula, Drunkship of Lanterns and Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus are treats to anyone who the acquired taste of dissonance. (+ Bonus Robotalk section of Take the Veil.)
I thought you were describing Bucketheads music which is awesome
Syd Barrett all over Piper at the Gates is great at dissonant guitar. Also John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees. Roland S Howard of The Birthday Party. Ry Cooder's playing on Beefheart's Safe as Milk. Alessandroni's work in Braen's Machine. Bruno Battisti D'Amario's mad playing for Morricone's Avant Garde band Il Groupo (see eg The Feed Back). Whoever(!) played on the great David Axelrod Warner recordings (the sleeve notes just list each as "musician").
The band Brainiac instantly comes to mind.
Adrian, this is great. Are you familiar with the work of Marc Moreland on the first two Wall of Voodoo albums (Dark Continent and Call Of The West)? he has some of my favourite dissonant things i've ever heard, often in a sort of bastardised surf style, but there's a lot more to him than that. Also those dissonent notes that the B52s often used, amongst otherwise more conventional chord structures. Anyway, thanks for the video and i'd love to hear what you make of Marc Moreland. Wall of Voodoo's cover of Ring of Fire might just be my favourite cover version of all time.
TELEVISION!
Wish there were more dissonant pop bands
Fab!!!
A la East Bay Ray 🔥
The technical term is "skronk".
I'm not sure quite how relevant this is, but I always thought The Slits did some interesting things with dissonance. Any chance of a video on the innovative work of Viv Albertine? Would she be the first female guitarist analysed on the channel? Do correct me if I'm wrong!
Can we get a comprehensive video on right-hand placement, planting/anchoring and different styles of strums? Like a James Williamson strum is very different to a Gang Of Four style strum or a Johnny Marr style strum..
Marc Robot, Rowland S Howard and Nels Cline. That'll do.
and Bob Quine, of course!
Now I want to watch Black Books
Do it wrong to make it right!
A bit like Tom Waits on Swordfish trombones.Also Dave Rawlings.
Most my songs have unintensional stuff. I had no idea its wanted 😂
Could you teach us a track by Alvvays?
Pleade do a tutorial on how to play i need somebody by the stooges 🥺🙏
That's on my list of to dos. Hope to get to it later in the year.
@@acpgyes!!! Thank you❤
Marc Ribot!!
Beautiful solo. Yes to tasteful dissonance, Is that an oxymoron?
Cool Marc ribot vibes
If sounds good it is good. That simply
Dead by Pixies seems like it uses all these techniques. Great song.
Can we please get The Hexx by Pavement
Adrian it’s time for a new replacements tutorial… hold my life?
Danzig lesson! John Christ! Come on!!!
Thumbs up for the danzig shirt
Danzig!
This solo sounds to me like an extended intro to Radiohead - There, There
Marc Moreland
Black midi is a perfect example of a band using of the dissonance. Listen to their song `welcome to hell’ for example. I love this band one best band these last years.
You are either a bonamassite or you're not......that is what I have found.....anytime I have looked for players to do something different.....they are either cookie cutter blues or Adam Jones bs.....
Ain't it fun when you play with this kind of stuff
Brilliant !