8 feb. 2013

Howdy


Howdy y'all.... gotta fixin ta git it started tho ah dunno if it'll be dun anytime... soon ... er at all... God bless!

7 sept. 2012

Play and Enjoy

... I've seen guitar folks focusin really hard to get every single note right and play all this complicated and kinda logical stuff... nothin out of the box... just the exact way it was written down... I've seen folks playin as kinda sloppy and off ... but with soul... Music is soul... and I don't expect perfection... we're all humans... Ain't it so?...

Either way... it's more blues...

6 sept. 2012

What makes a good guitarist ... what makes a good bluesman?

Always wondered... what really makes a good bluesman? ... there are so many folks that play the guitar... some are good, some need more practice... but then, there ain't a certain pattern ... no specific guidelines... eventually everyone has his own way... And those people who don't ... well they just copy/paste... and that explains everything... and it gets even worse when it comes to the blues... well let's just say that ya gotta be yerself... 
The guitar stuff and technique will eventually improve in time... I just love when people ask me: Do ya play guitar?... and I tell em: I play the blues
Now I enjoy a bit of rock every now and then... even some metal stuff just to entertain the void tween my ears... yet that kind of music can never get least close to the blues in terms of amount of soul... i'm talking bout tons here.... the blues can be like whatever, slow er fast... sloppy er complicated... well defined er just wild ... as long as there's soul in it... Jimi used tew say: "the blues is easy tew play but hard tew feel"...

... makes me think of all these great folks ... from the easy slow folks like Muddy Waters... Albert King and so on... tew insanely complicated players like SRV... The blues is like a family... pretty much the family i never had. Everyone is kinda linked one to each other... and even tho we play quite the same scales and notes for a hell lot of decades... it's the individual that makes it sound so original and nice...

And so I'm following my own guidelines... just tryin tew make up my own path and so on... yep it takes time but it sure is worth it...

Jesus left Romania

"... well things changed... things change and so they will... but the change round here is like something goin from bad tew worse... which inevitably forces one man tew take sum desperate measures ... Ain't gonna say much bout what happened back in the days now... I'll just let the blues speak for me... "

Name's Cognek... I play the blues...

I see people asking what is this blues thing round where I live... an I know it's not the right place... folks don't really freak out when I play a little tune er sumtn ...  but what's worse, they don't feel the music like they ought tew...

... Funny I started playin or at least tryin tew play the blues back in 2011... not quite a veteran but ever since I heard this music I never let it go.... i kinda find it quite useful ...hehe.
I recall that I had no clue about this kind of music... acutally first time I heard the lectrical gwitar screaming ... hell I was thinkin that it's country er sumtn... but I loved it ever since then...

I don't really feel like talkin nonsense now ... tryin to answer and explain stuff about music and soul and all that jazz... maybe later.... so much for the intro... I hear from y'all later now...