Here we go with round 3 of the amazing guitarist series of posts. Honestly each of the guys are just off the hook incredible. Enjoy!
Django Reinhardt < Only had two working fingers on his fret hand!
Amazing Guitarists (Part 2)
I decided to change the name of this series of guitar posts from “Most underrated Guitarists Ever” to “Amazing Guitarists”. I have once again posted links below to youtube videos of each guitarists work, of which is but a sample of their talent. Again I would suggest digging deeper if you find them to be as truly awesome as I do.
Three very different players up there. Hope you enjoy the sonic variations that each of these craftsmen brings to the table.
Music and Color Correspondences
According to this snippet of info (that I had hoped I would find) when searching for the correlation between music and color, I found that a study done at Montclair State University revealed the following:
College students listened to four song clips. Following each clip, the students indicated which color(s) corresponded to each of the four songs by distributing five points among eleven basic color names. Each song had previously been identified as either a “happy” or “sad” song. Each participant listened to two “happy” and two “sad” songs in random order. There was more agreement in color choice for the songs eliciting the same emotions than for songs eliciting different emotions. Brighter colors such as yellow, red, green, and blue were usually assigned to the happy songs and gray was usually assigned to the sad songs. It was concluded that music-color correspondences occur via the underlying emotion common to the two stimuli.
This study would suggest that on a deeper level every note, chord and scale have correspondences to different shades of color. Now if every color has a corresponding emotion it is no wonder that music has the profound effect on our emotions that it does.
Amazing Guitarists (Part 1)
I present to you a list of guitarists who simply do not have the following they deserve. Legends in their own right, I hope that you will pass these greats on to others…
Each of the above names are linked to youtube videos which are excellent examples of the artist’s talent. I would suggest digging deeper though as to how each of these greats have extensive catalogs of amazing material. This will be the first of a series of posts about amazing guitarists.
Improvisational and Uber Creative Music
When I say “Improvisational and Uber Creative Music” I am speaking of music made by musicians or bands that is either made in the moment with no previous plans or arrangements (improvisational) or music that is made by musicians or bands that previously did not exist before that artist came along and worked their craft (Uber Creative).
Examples of Improvisational Musicians
Jon Coltrane
Miles Davis
The Grateful Dead
Phish
The Allman Brothers Band
Examples of Uber Creative Musicians
Pink Flyod
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefhart
Diego Stocco
Sun Ra
Both of these lists are incredibly short and could contain literaly hunderds more musicians and or bands but to keep things simple I used the bands and or musicians that I thought were the best starting points to illustrate what I am trying to get across in this post.
Some of the bands listed above could have been placed in both of the lists, I placed them in their respective lists based on my opinion of which list they belonged in more than the other.
To illustrate what I consider Uber Creative I would point at Pink Floyd’s song “Money”. The introduction to the piece starts with a percussion segment created from the recorded sounds of a cash register. Before this song was released you simply never heard anything like this.
Another excellent example would be Diego Stocco’s Music from a Tree.
Again before Diego composed this piece you simply never heard of anyone else doing such a thing.
The aim of this blog post is to hopefully start a dialog with other fans of Improvisational and Uber Creative Music.
