Posted: Dec 05, 2015 3:38 pm
Adco wrote:If the Beatles got hold of it, I guess they would make a decent song from it. They made some music that didn't seem to fit the normal conventions.John Platko wrote:Adco wrote:Not sure. Try searching for adco1 as a band. I followed the link for external and it took me there.
I found it with the search. You're playing the lick about four times.
I think what it might be good for is as a gateway from minor to major. But I think it violates what seems to be the unwritten rule of licks that a lick needs to be a complete statement and resolve better than that does.
I'm still chewing on this. Any ideas on rules a lick should follow?
As for rules that a lick should follow, I would say the song should be listenable after playing it a few times. Repetitiveness makes music sound better. Of course there will be exceptions where a lick is so bad it will never sound good. Like some of the songs I have written
I'm thinking this kind of lick belongs more to the class of "hot" licks, then this warm lick group that I'm working on. It doesn't seem to fit in with what I've seen people call a lick because it is so unresolved. But it does introduce a whole new lick design space - the unresolved lick space - which seems perfect for out of the box hot licks. I'm going to go back and make sure my spawning algorithm only uses beginning and ending notes of one of the parent licks for warm licks.
If nothing else, this sort of thing shows how a project like this helps me bring a bit more consciousness to what I'm doing when I noodle blues.