Tom Quayle - Creating Tension
Discover the art of creating musical tension with "Tom Quayle - Creating Tension" guitar lessons, exclusively available at Licklibrary.com. In this series, world-renowned guitarist Tom Quayle delves into the intricate techniques that add emotional depth and dynamic intensity to your playing. This comprehensive course focuses on three key areas: Creating Tension Using Subdivisions, Creating Tension Using Anticipation, and Creating Tension and Release. Each lesson is meticulously designed to help you master these techniques, enriching your musical vocabulary and enhancing your expressive capabilities.
Creating Tension Using Subdivisions
Subdivisions are a powerful tool in a guitarist's arsenal. By breaking down the beat into smaller, more precise units, you can create intricate rhythmic patterns that add a layer of complexity to your playing. Tom Quayle's lessons on subdivisions guide you through various methods of manipulating rhythm to build tension.
Benefits to the Viewer
Learning how to use subdivisions will improve your timing and rhythmic accuracy, enabling you to create captivating and unpredictable musical phrases. This technique is particularly useful for improvisation, allowing you to keep listeners on the edge of their seats with unexpected rhythmic twists.
Creating Tension Using Anticipation
Anticipation involves playing a note or chord slightly before the beat, creating a feeling of forward motion and urgency. In these lessons, Tom Quayle demonstrates how to effectively use anticipation to keep your audience engaged.
Benefits to the Viewer
Mastering anticipation will make your solos and riffs more exciting and dynamic. This technique adds a sense of drive and momentum to your music, making your playing more compelling and emotionally impactful.
Creating Tension and Release
The interplay between tension and release is a fundamental aspect of musical expression. By building up tension and then resolving it, you can create a powerful emotional journey for your listeners. Tom Quayle's lessons explore various ways to create and resolve tension, using techniques like dynamics, note choice, and phrasing.
Benefits to the Viewer
Understanding how to balance tension and release in your music will enhance your ability to tell a story through your guitar playing. This technique helps you control the emotional flow of your music, making your performances more engaging and memorable.
Performance Context
Seeing these techniques in a performance context is incredibly beneficial. Tom Quayle includes a performance segment in the lessons, demonstrating how to seamlessly integrate these tension-building techniques into your playing. Watching a professional apply these concepts in real-time helps you understand their practical application and inspires you to incorporate them into your own style.
Benefits to the Viewer
By observing these techniques in action, you gain insight into how they can be used in a live setting. This visual and auditory experience reinforces your learning and provides a concrete example of how to apply these concepts in your own playing.
Guitar Techniques Used in These Lessons
About The Tutor
Tutor Profile
Tom Quayle
Tom Quayle needs no introduction on the guitar scene after shooting to attention when he made it to the finals of Guitar Idol back in 2008. Before that he was a graduate of Leeds College of Music where he did a degree in jazz then hit the local jazz scene....