Nine paragraphs about a guitar tone, as promised. Actually four. I have edited myself.
The thing about that whole sound is that it is distance rather than distortion, which took me an embarrassingly long time to actually hear. You can put as much fuzz on a guitar as you like and still sound like a person standing in front of you. What makes it work is the…
Unpopular position: track order is most of an album and shuffling is a small act of vandalism.
Not out of some purity thing. Sequencing is doing real work. The quiet one after the loud one lands quiet, and on shuffle it just lands. Half the songs I love are load-bearing only in position, and heard alone they are fine, unremarkable, a bit thin.…
Two years into learning guitar as an adult, here is the honest report.
The hands are fine. The hands were never the problem. The problem is that as an adult you can hear exactly how far off you are, constantly, and there is no version of the early stages that sounds acceptable to you. A child learning does not know they sound bad. That ignorance is a…
