Articles
In a time where we are, in effect, all trying to play the other guy's instrument, we often come up against basic problems like how to tongue a trumpet part, or bow a violin part, or for someone like me, how to build a piano part that sounds remotely like something a piano player would actually do. While I can't help with the topics just mentioned, perhaps I can shed some light on guitar playing that will benefit the midi sound designer. I hope some of these articles can do that.
- New Artificial Harmonics An article about the techniques used to play artificial harmonics in the style of Lennie Breau, including Lennie's well known harp-like melodic patterns and a method of using the technique to play close-voiced chords.
- General Midi Notes
- Some Basic Guitar Principles For the Keyboardist Now, also available as a PDF on the Downloads page.
- Editing the Strum Demo This is an html version of the first 16 pages of the 30 page tutorial pdf, included with the SampleSmith G1 Guitar Soundfont.
- Editing the Fingerpicking Demo This is an html version of the first 14 pages of the 55 page tutorial pdf, included with the SampleSmith G1 Guitar Soundfont.
- In preparation
- Using 3rds and 7ths for Comping and Chunking
- Typical Folk Accompaniment
- Writing clustered voicings for guitar, and methods of playing them
- Typical Voicings for simple chords
- Typical Voicings for 'Jazz' chords
If there are specific topics not covered here that you think would be a good addition to the content, please contact info@samplesmith.com.