What you can learn from this manual¶
- Understand what the parameters / boundaries / rules governing modern popular music are, where they come from, why to stick to the rules, and how to use them to your advantage as a musician and songwriter
- Maximising the margin for error: and why this is critical
- How to learn a song quickly
- Basic orchestration
- Standard chord sequences
- Building trust between band members
- Musical cues:
- What are they?
- How to use them
- What is the difference between playing and performing?
- Don’t allow your playing to interfere with anything else being sung / played on stage
- Using inversions to fill in the spaces and not clutter up the sound with redundancies
- Less is More
- How to listen to everyone around you while you’re playing
- Playing in context
- Instrument roles
- Light and Shade – What it’s all about