The Unorthodox Guitar: A Guide to Alternative Performance Practice
is a comprehensive resource for experimentally minded guitarists
and composers wishing to write for or perform on the instrument in
new ways. The book focuses primarily on unconventional approaches
to guitar performance, which include alternative tunings, extended
techniques, instrumental preparations, electronic augmentations,
and issues related to performing and recording with a computer.
Embracing all guitar types-nylon, steel-string acoustic, and
electric-techniques and examples are culled from a broad range of
musical genres, including blues, contemporary classical, country,
folk, jazz, rock, and non-Western idioms. While the writing offers
a treasure trove of possibilities for experimental improvisation,
it is oriented towards formal composition, and to that end details
the controllable dimensions of the techniques and preparations at
hand, along with strategies that might be adopted to notate them.
Conventional guitar amplifiers, effect pedals, and pedalboards are
examined, along with a discussion of analog signal chains, rig
design, and best practices for the preservation of tone. In
addition, possibilities afforded by the addition of a computer to
the guitar rig are explored, including signal processing, sensor
augmentation, and score following. The writing is paired with a
companion website that contains an abundance of audio, video, and
software materials to supplement the ideas presented. This
information is intended to serve as a guide, reference, and source
of inspiration for those wishing to compose and/or perform on the
instrument in innovative ways.
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