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I’ve taken some great ideas from the film composers I’ve worked with.
Once a famous film composer named Graeme Revell asked me to make
my guitar sound “Indian” like a sitar. I don’t remember the exact tuning
but the top 2 strings were tuned to B. A few weeks after the
session I pulled that guitar out of the case and it was still in
that tuning and I wrote a song called “24 and 10” for the
album SIX.
RF:What does it mean to you teaching at the “Thornton
School of Music of the University of Southern California and
at the “Musician Institute (MI) Hollywood, California?
I’m not at USC these days because my touring sche-
dule doesn’t allow me to spend 12 weeks in a row
without leaving town. I do come in to Musicians
Institute every once in a while for master classes,
and I enjoy those. Passing on my knowledge to the
next generation is important to me.
RF:What can you tell us about your
instructive DVDs and your on line
lessons?
My new on-line teaching portal
(reached through CarlVerheyen.com)
is called the CV Academy. It has
over 100 short lessons on many
different guitar styles. Theory,
technique, chops building,
harmony, ear training,
song arrangements and
dozens of other subjects
are covered. I have a section
called “What I Learned From”
where I talk about the specific
“artistic signature” of dozens
of different guitar plarom