How to learn to play in a new genre/style?

[Refugee]

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[Jeremy_Green]

Listen to a lot of it and start figuring out the chords and licks.
Indie Rock and Power Pop are not very different from straight-up Rock and Roll.
I mean, I guess it depends on exactly what your definition of these sub-genres is - ?

THIS

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Hey, Heartbreaker! Any progress? What's working for you? What are you discovering?

 

[Heartbreaker_Esq]

Hey, Heartbreaker! Any progress? What's working for you? What are you discovering?

Slow going so far, in part because there's a lot of Real Life Stuff going on. So I haven't had much play time recently.

But I have been trying to gain more familiarity with the stuff I wanna play. I have never had the ear to just sit down and pick up songs from the record, except with straightforward cowboy-chord country. So I've been looking up videos of songs/bands I like to see what they are doing. I've been surprised how many of them are just using simple major chords, which is helping my confidence.

One stroke of luck is that a band I love (Pinegrove), happens to have a selection of official tabs up on their website. They tend to use lots of extensions and voicings I wouldn't normally try, so I'm learning a lot from trying their stuff out. It might even get me to finally mess with drop-D for the first time since my RATM days in high school.

So, I won't be ready to join or start a band any time soon, but I am taking some steps and making some progress.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

. . . You pour over every inch of it making adjustments. After it's mastered and ready to burn copies you are so sick of your own music you want to puke! . . .

I'm no pro, but I had the opposite experience. From about 2013 to 2018, I recorded about 120 of the songs I'd written over the years. Put hours into each song, massaging and tweeking inch by inch.

Not great stuff, but the best I could do. Didn't really like how they sounded, but with the help of Disk Makers I went ahead and put together a CD.

Put one in my car. And now I can't stop listening to it. Levels out my blood pressure instantly. It makes me wonder about my mental health. I have so many great CDs by artists I love, and instead of listening to them, I drive along happily listening to the dreck I produced. Over and over and over.

What's wrong with me? I probably need a shrink, but they say a shrink only helps if you want help.

PS -

Q: How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Just one. But it takes a long time, and the lightbulb has to want to change.

 

[badscrew_projects]

I'm no pro, but I had the opposite experience. From about 2013 to 2018, I recorded about 120 of the songs I'd written over the years. Put hours into each song, massaging and tweeking inch by inch.

Not great stuff, but the best I could do. Didn't really like how they sounded, but with the help of Disk Makers I went ahead and put together a CD.

Put one in my car. And now I can't stop listening to it. Levels out my blood pressure instantly. It makes me wonder about my mental health. I have so many great CDs by artists I love, and instead of listening to them, I drive along happily listening to the dreck I produced. Over and over and over.

What's wrong with me? I probably need a shrink, but they say a shrink only helps if you want help.

PS -

Q: How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Just one. But it takes a long time, and the lightbulb has to want to change.

Easy to answer: whatever works for you, works for you

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Easy to answer: whatever works for you, works for you

And doesn't take coffee breaks!

 

[cyclopean]

Octave “chords” are one of the secrets to emo.