Fusion songwrighting help
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Topic: Fusion songwrighting help
Posted By: ProgBagel
Subject: Fusion songwrighting help
Date Posted: July 22 2007 at 20:36
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I've been listening to a lot of Holdsworth, Ohm:, Planet X and Brand X lately. The guitar in these bands seems to be all over the place but I know thats its no randomness.
Are they just playing in a unchanging key signature? Is the bassist playing some progressions changing the chords while the guitar solos over it in the appropriate modes? How exactly does this writing and playing get done? |
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Posted By: purplepiper
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 00:40
Here's my general approach to it: you'll need a theme/melody to give the song some level of coherence. You'll also need a solid chord progression to improvise over constantly (I love intense fusion improv!) Also, you may want to add some fast unison passages to serve as bridges. If nothing else, have a solid bassline under all the chaos and at least one melody to play every 24 bars or whatever. It's okay to have a song that is 80% soloing, but you've got to keep it within some sort of structure. Hope this helped! ------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
ProgBagel wrote:Posted By: william314159
Date Posted: July 30 2007 at 00:23
| also avoid any striaght major or minor chords, a real simple way to make your chords sound more fusionesque is to forget about modal coherence and make your chords minor 9ths, diminished 7ths, or major 7ths. dominant 7ths sound good too if you take out the 5th. hope that helps! |