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Griffin Goldsmith who plays drums all over Fun House and Placeholder and is one of my favorite drummer/percussionist to play with (and watch) told me about his band mate’s guitars Gelber and Sons and was always telling me I should get one. Thankfully he let me bug him a lot when I was writing and was one of the few people I would send unfinished songs to for feedback.Ĩ. The way his guitar arrangements seem linked genetically to his lyrics and melodies really excites me and I wanted to incorporate this kind of thoughtful and considerate guitar arrangements into my songs. I have admired his musicality since we first met in a dorm in Wisconsin at a festival as strangers. My friend Christian Lee Hutson and I would send each other song ideas or snippets and talk about lyrics and phrasing.
#Hand habits how to#
Two words: Krista Tippett | This particular episode helped me navigate some ambiguous feelings of loss and she speaks with Pauline Boss about how to grieve without closure.Ħ. The dryness of this record has always baffled me, and for Fun House I wanted to move away from using so much reverb and atmospheric glue and lean into a bit more rawness. We all agreed that this would be a major sonic and arrangement inspiration for Fun House.
#Hand habits mac#
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac | Tusk has always been one of my favorite albums, and when I moved into a house with Sasami and Kyle (aka King Tuff) it was on frequent rotation in the evenings when we all ate dinner together. This book did that for me at the perfect time and turned my stagnant days into a kaleidoscope of signs and symbols that in turn ended up on the walls and mantels of Fun House.Ĥ. I had been longing for a portal of this kind…one that throws me off balance and into a new lens, finding meaning in everything around me and linking it together. I picked it up casually because a few friends had mentioned they were reading it, and that it seemed to have open a portal of continual synchronicity. My Meteorite by Harry Dodge (2020) | My friend Tara Jane O’Neil had a copy of this book on her bedside table when I was house sitting for her out in Landers, CA. I wanted (and still want to) incorporate some of his grace into my playing.ģ. Ted’s sense of voice leading blows my mind, and his harp harmonics and overall understanding of the guitar completely lit a fire under me to remember to be more dedicated in this kind of practice. It helped me get back to the basics and remember the beauty that a guitar direct into an amp with no effects can facilitate. I printed a stack out and would move through them (very very slowly).
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I stumbled upon and in the lesson section there are hundreds of free pdf’s of transcribed lessons from Ted’s personal archive, some with hand written notes and suggestions from Ted. He looks so cool and casual as he smokes during the lesson and plays the examples of voice leading seemingly effortlessly. A friend shared with me some Ted Greene YouTube videos of him teaching his students. Ted Greene | Last year when I had more time to myself than ever before, I got into a routine of practicing guitar in a more technical and structured sense.
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“We filmed this video in my aunt’s bar and club in upstate New York, linking the origin and lineage themes in the song with the visuals of changing identities and characters in a space I used to wander as a teen.”
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It was my goal to cloak some of the perils of mortality (lyrically) in a musical landscape that didn’t require the listener for a large amount of patience, to bring grief into the metaphorical club,” says Duffy. “What originally started as a minimally arranged acoustic ballad, ‘Aquamarine’ evolved into the story of certain events in life, what informs my identity, the silence in the questions left unanswered that become the shape of understanding who I am. You can find the video for “Aquamarine” available to watch below, where we have also shared a quote about its influence, as well as the album art and tracklist. It gives their lovely folk influenced sound into a more colorful and expansive electronic sound that is upbeat, slightly dance friendly, but still carrying itself with Duff’s trademark feeling of melancholy. This can be felt on “Aquamarine,” the first single shared from the album. Emboldened by going into therapy and coaxed by Ashworth to push the songs into unexpected new shapes, the result is an album that takes Duffy’s sound into an exciting new direction. The album was produced by Sasami Ashworth (of SASAMI) and is described as being “very much the result of taking a difficult, if much-needed, moment of pause,” one that we all can relate to after the past year and a half. Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy has announced their new album Fun House, which will be released via Saddle Creek on October 22nd.
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