NEW GUITAR STYLE. I’m working on a different acoustic guitar style. I try to play base, rhythm and lead guitar all at once. I call it the combo style of guitar playing. Then in studio recordings I add two background vocals. Listen and see what you think.
Once you get used to this style of back-to-basics guitar and voice music, you may ask, when listening to other music,’ why is that band song so cluttered?’, or ‘isn’t that other guitar and voice song missing something?’
MUSIC THAT CHALLENGES:
Part of what I’m doing has challenged the thinking of many:
1. Get back to basics – don’t over produce your music – let the song through, don’t muddy it with technical clutter.
2. D-Pop where the song is what counts. What doesn’t count is the promotional budget or the fame. Then all are on a level playing field with every new recording.
3. Don’t do videos – Videos are a trick that only about 9 ever promoted pop stars can afford with minimum budgets of $100,000 to make (at least) That is a trick to let money count, not quality, and block out all indie musicians that can’t afford it.
4. Support pennies for play – where everywhere you post your song, you get a penny per play. Customers pay to hear music, like a jukebox online. Works for all content.
5. Fair, no ad revue sites – open to all. Where EVERYONE gets a professional review for a fair processing fee per song.
6. The Music Revolution – that would change every aspect of music and get you a chance at a career by ending the monopoly of the Big 3 Labels that block out new music and prop up the same 9 pop stars you see promoted year after year.
7. Take a break from bands for awhile ( the usual electric guitars, bass, drums). This will force musicians to be innovative instead of fit a 60 year old formula done so well by thousands of others from last century.
8. No corporate radio station will play a protest song. Take away their licenses.
9. New type of Combo guitar playing where I try to play bass, rhythm, and lead all on one guitar. Style that is half way between band and singer songwriter.
You may agree or disagree with a point or two – but they are new ideas, progressive ideas, challenging ideas that will help make music exciting, fun, and out side of corporate hands!
Tom
Dear Readers,
Today I posted my new video, the world’s first, online, singalong, song. See lyrics and sing the ‘lalalala chorus.” Join the world.
For this and all my channel of youtube videos see this url and give it a thumbs up or comment. Thanks!
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
https://www.youtube.com/user/TomHendricksMusea
Dear Reader,
Here are two more videos:
Traveller
Folk song for the wayward.
Catch Me (If You Can)
Jazz Piece – short!
Please give them a thumbs up (lift a finger to help)
much appreciated.
Here’s my youtube channel – they are the top two.
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
https://www.youtube.com/user/TomHendricksMusea
Dear Readers,
3 Albums worth!
For the last few years I have been writing and recording a lot of new music. From the first of 2018 till now 19 months), I’ve also made many SONG DEMOS.
I counted them up today and there are 37!
THAT’S 3 ALBUMS WORTH!
3 full albums of 12 songs each, with one demo to spare!
Here is the breakdown:
33 are original,
3 are covers, and
1 was just added!
These rough demos, are not the studio quality of my 150 song outside-the-box set, but I couldn’t wait to show them to you! They are all on my YOUTUBE channel, Tom Hendricks or
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
https://www.youtube.com/user/TomHendricksMusea
When you listen, please give a thumbs up, and subscribe if you like. Comments are welcome too!
There is also hunkasaurus.com for more.
Best wishes,
Tom Hendricks /Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar
Musea Zine 