"I hear it time and time again [on tapes people send me]: some kid finds a tuning and he heard me play, so he slaps the shit out of the guitar, and there is maybe one idea but it's undeveloped. I write back and say, "More melody!" If you don't have some sort of melodic movement, you're just going to hear this one sonority, and it can be the greatest sonority in the world, but it's not going to be music--it won't have the muse in the music. Find a great tuning and go to town on it, but before you finish the tune you have got to figure somewhere to go. You have got to introduce a great idea, and then you've got to develop it into a place where you can rest from that idea and have a nice floaty time or romp time and then you come back to the original idea." -Michael Hedges, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, March 1997

I have never been a holed up suburban guitar nerd who wants to make the most perfect YouTube guitar video. When I got caught up in the YouTube "gold rush" for great acoustic solo guitarists, I wound up hating being a musician, because I kept comparing my videos with other videos. Now I just play live, and don't give a $#!* about the lousy comments random nobodies make on my videos.

I'm an entertainer. So this channel is over. I will keep these videos up, but my real channel will now be:

www.youtube.com/theandrewgorny

Please support independent artists by buying their music. Go to andrewgorny.com, and pick up my records if you like what you hear.

Thanks, it's not easy being an independent artist.

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