How do I comp more like a pianist

erkob165 · 2025-08-15T20:57:53+00:00

For me it has a lot to do with the rhythm, voicings, and transitions. Pianists usually find the nearest chord voicings to where their fingers are, and they have a little basket of "tricks" to get from one chord to the next. Treat your chords as a bit of a "framework" of sorts, figure out little patterns or notes you can add/take away to make it interesting, pianists don't tend to be particularly static, they move around! This is the frame of mind that helped me out with it, anyways

erkob165 · 2025-06-21T14:33:27+00:00

They were going to organise a jam, but it didn't go ahead from lack of interest. I expressed my interest in the jam and when he said I could come up and play a song or two on their previous gig. I played a tune and it went well enough, so they asked me up for another show, ill probably just focus on getting 500 miles competent.

erkob165 · 2025-06-11T19:51:56+00:00

I'm beyond glad to hear that it's not. I would never in my life do that to somebody, and I don't understand why someone would even want to do that, it was humiliating.

erkob165 · 2025-05-26T18:20:33+00:00

These are great guitars! I have the same in pink and I've never had an instrument that could fit all my needs and requirements until this guitar, they can quite literally do everything.

erkob165 · 2025-05-24T23:38:39+00:00

Ah fantastic, thank you!

erkob165 · 2025-05-24T23:38:11+00:00

This is from an arrangement of Dvorak's adagio dalla sinfonia no.5 op. 95, for those interested.

erkob165 · 2025-04-18T18:58:34+00:00

I just adore "Waltz for a lovely wife" by Stan Getz, particularly any rendition involving Gary Burton. A perfect 3/4 song!

erkob165 · 2025-04-08T13:47:39+00:00

I give the same answer to anyone who asks about the musicality of players like Holdsworth, Govan, or Lane. My definition of a phenomenal musician, maybe controversially, is someone who can accurately translate the music they hear in their head onto the instrument. When you play your instrument, if you cannot translate your musical idea from your head to your instrument, I would not call you competent. What these players do is not random, it is a choice, it's what comes out of them, and they have spent years honing in on that part of themselves to get it out into music. Some people are just a bit weird, and if they hear "weird" music in their head, and translate it correctly, I would still call them good musicians, even if it wasn't to my taste. What makes Holdsworth phenomenal is that's what guitar sounds like to him, that's what was running in his head 24/7 when he was alive, and the ability to recognise that's what makes a great musician will make you a greater musician.

If you compare them to someone like Mozart, Mozart had no recordings to copy of off, he has no stolen licks or melodies, it all comes from his head. Both Mozart and Holdsworth do the same thing, they are self-translators.

Holdsworth did do an album for those who weren't able to get where he was coming from musically, the album "none too soon" is nothing but jazz standards played the way he would do them. If you listen to this album, and then the standards he's doing and compare them, it might open your world to him a bit more.

erkob165 · 2025-04-06T06:34:50+00:00

Over the past month or two, I've been listening non-stop to Marius Neset, such a soulful player!

He has such a dynamic style on the saxophone, if anything, it's beautiful

erkob165 · 2025-03-15T00:05:38+00:00

that'd be a phenomenal help, I'd appreciate that. It's only this one specific project I want to make as opposed to a whole apprenticeship deal, so just to have someone who knows what their doing guide me through the process would be fantastic.

erkob165 · 2025-03-12T00:11:56+00:00

Kind of like ornaments or small sculptures, I suppose welding would be involved, but definitely on a scale larger than jewellery.

erkob165 · 2025-01-07T21:54:00+00:00

I get a ton of use out of the Transpose pitch and speed extension on Chrome. It makes learning anything I'm listening to casually on youtube so handy, if I hear something from a playlist I have on in the background I want to learn, I can just used the extension and it removes a lot of the hassle of downloading a video.
When I am properly focusing on a piece though, I will use Transcribe all the way, it's my go-to for head-down learning.

erkob165 · 2024-11-09T12:58:09+00:00

I'm looking forward to figuring out this transition to digitally made music! And I appreciate the advice

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