Post by h***@gmail.comThanks Gerry. I take all criticisms to heart and will try to understand
what you are concerned with and learn from it. It may be phrase breaks
that you are talking about. Most of it is in time (3/4 jazz waltz).
It doesn't have consistent meter, no matter how it's named. I assumed
that's the intent, that it's not a "mistake" per se. I just don't get
why almost everyone on the FB groups play their tunes free of meter. I
have no complaints with the occasional heart-felt piece performed as a
recitative of sorts. Most of your offerings do have time, IIRC. But it
seems to be a default "style" for the majority of solo performance
pieces that I hear these days. I just find it curious.
I sometimes figure out an arrangement for a tune or for a section of a
tune, and once it's all settled I realize it's too difficult or
complicated to actually play at tempo. My solution is to discard my
"little darlings"* and take another approach I can actually perform. I
think a lot of bedroom guitarists on FB just discard time instead. I
find rhythm to be at least as compelling in the delivery of a song,
particularly Brazilian pieces, than melody or harmony. And yet...
* William Faulkner on writing screenplays, which are always open to
editing by a fleet of suits in Hollywood: ""Every writer must learn to
kill his little darlings.”