Sunday, November 07, 2010
new Chris Weisman BOOK available!!!!
hi friends,
im excited to announce that we have received a handful of copies of Chris Weisman's new book 'Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses (for Guitar in Standard Tuning)' for the autumn records shop. this is Chris' unique bible of 100 invented sets of shapes and patterns of tablature for the guitar. they are categorized by scale types and will certainly bring some freshness and inspiration and new colors to your guitar playing. its one of the most creative and outside of the box guitar technique / scale books ive ever seen. its a portal to music magic. check out the sample pages below and then go to the store and buy a copy of this beautiful book. it has a letterpressed cover and nicely printed and bound by radical readout press & shelter bookworks from western massachusetts. this is a limited micro-edition book so get it now!
here is an excerpt from the introduction of the book written by chris:
"Everything in this book is a coincidence. Each collection of pitches, each “Pattern” is gifted with double meaning, with double rightness. These are visual patterns of dots (drawn where a finger frets a string to make a pitch) on the grid formed by strings (vertical) and frets (horizontal). What constitutes a “Pattern” is more easily seen than said. Children with no musical training can see them. Some are simple symmetry and some are more playful. These are visual patterns but they are also something more. The pitches generated by these patterns make up scales conventionally used for improvisation; they are scales but the pitches are scattered differently than usual.
Scales traditionally ascend and descend neatly from one pitch to the next. Different octaves of the same scale have the same pitches in the same order. Nonmusical Patterns have stretches of conventional stepwise motion, but they are also full of strange leaps. They generally span two octaves plus some (the range of a guitar “position”, where the hand stays roughly in the same area), but the two octaves are different from each other. Certain pitches may appear more than once while others happen only in one of the octaves. Gather these pitches together on paper into a single octave and put them in order and you have the “composite scale”. Like in a composite sketch, disparate characteristics are brought together in order to identify. The composite scale tells you all the pitches that are present in the Pattern, but the Pattern is more than just that scale, it’s that weird way of playing that scale....."
pssst....look out for chris weisman's new albums 2CD 'transparency' here on autumn records in december!
im excited to announce that we have received a handful of copies of Chris Weisman's new book 'Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses (for Guitar in Standard Tuning)' for the autumn records shop. this is Chris' unique bible of 100 invented sets of shapes and patterns of tablature for the guitar. they are categorized by scale types and will certainly bring some freshness and inspiration and new colors to your guitar playing. its one of the most creative and outside of the box guitar technique / scale books ive ever seen. its a portal to music magic. check out the sample pages below and then go to the store and buy a copy of this beautiful book. it has a letterpressed cover and nicely printed and bound by radical readout press & shelter bookworks from western massachusetts. this is a limited micro-edition book so get it now!
here is an excerpt from the introduction of the book written by chris:
"Everything in this book is a coincidence. Each collection of pitches, each “Pattern” is gifted with double meaning, with double rightness. These are visual patterns of dots (drawn where a finger frets a string to make a pitch) on the grid formed by strings (vertical) and frets (horizontal). What constitutes a “Pattern” is more easily seen than said. Children with no musical training can see them. Some are simple symmetry and some are more playful. These are visual patterns but they are also something more. The pitches generated by these patterns make up scales conventionally used for improvisation; they are scales but the pitches are scattered differently than usual.
Scales traditionally ascend and descend neatly from one pitch to the next. Different octaves of the same scale have the same pitches in the same order. Nonmusical Patterns have stretches of conventional stepwise motion, but they are also full of strange leaps. They generally span two octaves plus some (the range of a guitar “position”, where the hand stays roughly in the same area), but the two octaves are different from each other. Certain pitches may appear more than once while others happen only in one of the octaves. Gather these pitches together on paper into a single octave and put them in order and you have the “composite scale”. Like in a composite sketch, disparate characteristics are brought together in order to identify. The composite scale tells you all the pitches that are present in the Pattern, but the Pattern is more than just that scale, it’s that weird way of playing that scale....."
pssst....look out for chris weisman's new albums 2CD 'transparency' here on autumn records in december!
# posted by gd @ 1:28 PM 
