your inner ear. Being able to hear the intervals
if I ever need to.
industry. There are just some ground rules
and the music in your head, and basically
and basics that you’ll absolutely need to know
knowing how to play it before you pick up the [WM] What advice or suggestions do you eventually if you’re going to get anywhere. If
instrument. My gut reaction is usually on piano have for younger players – feel free to plug your you’re going to be picked as a band member,
or clarinet; that’s just where my brain naturally books! or you’re going to be the go-to guy for a Sunday
goes. But I can do it on guitar now too because
morning, or a studio guy; you’re going to end
I’ve been playing guitar for so long. I like to harp [Jeffrey] The main thing I suggest is to sit up needing to know some theory. So, I wrote
on ear training as the basis for all of my playing. down with a recording and force yourself to three, really short books about that.
learn it by ear. Without knowing music theory
[WM] What kind of stuff are you currently or anything about the guitar, start plucking out
working on in your practice time? the notes of a simple melody. Figure it out in
one position, and then find three or four other
[Jeffrey] My practice sessions usually look positions you can do the exact same melody. like me trying to learn stuff that I can’t play. So, You could learn to play the guitar that way it might be a John Mayer solo or a Pat Metheny without even knowing anything about theory. etude. I don’t necessarily have a system of After that, I teach basic music theory – how to practicing other than just finding things that I build a chord, why they exist, how to use them, can’t play yet and challenging myself to learn and their place in a key signature. It’s really not to play them. That opens my fingers and my that in-depth. My books are only thirty to sixty mind up to new possibilities. By incorporating pages. I call it “Music Theory for the Music a John Mayer solo into my bag of tricks, now Industry” because there’s not that much music [WM] Who from the secular arena has
I can pull that out and use it somewhere else theory you need to know to be in the music influenced you, and how?
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