Correct, but Empty. Have you ever felt that your playing sounds technically correct, yet emotionally empty? Frank Lloyd Wright believed a building should grow from its site. What if your guitar phrasing also needed to grow more naturally from the composition—the harmony, the form, the feel? In the fourth book of his autobiography, Wright described […]
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Out of Order. [Your playing sounds predictable.] But what if the real problem is not a lack of technique, scale shapes, or phrasing ideas, but cracks in the foundation beneath them? Mies van der Rohe wrote: “One can only order what is already ordered in itself”. This matters more to guitarists than most people realize.
More Notes, Less Music. [Playing technically correct, but emotionally empty] Coop Himmelb(l)au wanted architecture that bleeds, whirls, stings, and tears under stress—what if your guitar phrasing needed that same kind of life? In Architecture Must Blaze, Coop Himmelb(l)au rejects safe, complacent design and calls for something more alive, disquieting, and intense. This connects deeply with
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