incomplete melodies

the only song i know


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[2019/07/11 09:28:55 Nuweibaa, Sinai]

i never considered myself to be a good guitar player
i used to dream that i would be, but always felt embarrassed about my actual abilities

i knew some chords, and some scales
but couldn't really figure out how create a song out of them

when strumming chords i always sounded bad to myself
too much... not even sure what, just didn't like it

so the way i managed to feel like i was playing fluently and sounding good was by finger picking
i would find specific sets of notes (i.e. chords) that sound good together and play with them

anyway, i had a bunch of these little formations, which i thought of as locations on the guitar (like points in a territory)
and i was looking for ways to connect them

and eventually i found them
and they started connecting
and from individual melodies for a minute there i thought they were turning into a song

and so i tried to capture it
but since it is half-improvised
there is no specific recipe to follow

so i did get it
but only a version of it
and unfortunately the version just before this version for the recording was better, but what can you do...

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incomplete melodiesBy Amir Baer