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Compositions for electric guitar - Page 3 — Mon, 19 Mar 2026 01:11:25 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by Cnote11 I'd like to post also that I thought Iforgotmypassword's post was intriguing. What exactly do you mean by the strengths of the instrument. I'll have you know I picked up guitar for the first time in my life 3 months ago. One of the beautiful things I find about the guitar are its timbral possibilities! The billions of ways you can manipulate the sound, not to mention the things you can do base-line with it. I feel like the guitar has been greatly explored in genres outside of Classical in those respects, and myself, I'm currently looking to expand on the electric guitar vocabulary once I become efficient enough. I'm interested in you sharing your opinions on the place of electric guitar within the classical realm, its possibilities, and what you feel are the strengths of the instrument. Well I posted that response when I was just beginning to get more heavily into drone music and projects which used the amplified aspect of the guitar to create unique sounds and timbers (as you mentioned) that one just can't get from other instruments. Projects of Stephen O'malley interest me a lot, he tends to delve mainly into the more drone/Amplifier experimentation, using feedback as an instrument and stuff like that. I recently saw an article by an avant-garde guitarist which shows some more of the possibilities of electric guitar on a bit of the other side of the spectrum. She uses things like Chalk and brushes on her guitar to produce very interesting, complex sounds. Of course on the extreme side there is also table-top guitars which you probably know about as well. I just think that when people think of electric guitar, they tend to think of this loud frilly shred solo that is about as subtle as a rhinoceros trying to fit in at a traditional british dinner party. I personally believe that the subtleties are just beginning to be explored and as they are more fully realized, their viability for serious composition will increase exponentially. Here's the article of the avant-garde guitarist: http://freepresshouston.com/music/sandy-ewen/ [...]

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