October 15 , 2006
When I started playing guitar I wanted to make my own music, didn't want to play other people's tunes, so I spent my first years just improvising and coming up with ideas, using the guitar as a tool for composing and playing solos.
This sort of "guitar & music" lessons are not intended to be the "truth" or even correct, these are only my thoughts and my way of seeing the whole thing...
lesson I
Three tension blocks
Music is an art form that deals with two things: tension and relax, and there's 3 basic tension blocks, each one ranging from total relax to total tension: Tonic, Sub-Dominant and Dominant.
This lesson is a very primitive "tension blocks study" and all you'll need to do is learn a few chords:
All those chords can be translated into this three tension blocks, being r for relax, m for mild tension and t for tension:
| r | r | m | m |
| t | t | r | r |
| m | m | t | t |
| r | r | m | m |
| t | t | r | r |
| m | m | t | t |
All music is made of this "3 functions" or "tension blocks", even the most complicated stuff can be simplified to just 3 chords.
"Lack of it is Emptyness" new single out.
© 2006 Hari Ossa
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