Guitar Uncivilized | Darcy James Argue on Composing for the Guitar
Guitar Uncivilized | Darcy James Argue on Composing for the Guitar Darcy James Argue on Composing for the Guitar Comment My guitar writing is full of guitar-specific techniques, including passages with drop-D turning, harmonics and double-harmonics, slide playing, palm-muting and other types of muting, pedal effects and loops, fully-notated voicings, and so on. Im not a guitarist so in many cases what I write consists of an educated guess about whats possible, based on my understanding of how the instrument works, but Id say most of the time it ends up being doable.
Welcome to Guitar Uncivilized, a guidebook and online platform to freaking out one of the most common guitar sounds-the famed 'open string chord'-exploring this single, exciting-but-accessible concept from all angles. Built on digestible, culturally-relevant 'micro-chapters', as well as in-the-field interviews and research with some of the worlds most intriguing guitarists and composers, the project is built as an interactive zine-guidebook with chord recipes, anecdotes, examples and descriptive