ERIC SATIE ...broke all classic rules of harmony without the listener finding it unpleasant

     WARNING: 

Most players pick a genre at some point and play by the very, very strict though unwritten rules of it. Not necessarily a bad thing. Picasso said some of his best work was when he designed graphics for cigarette packages to pay his rent. This post is for guys like you and I that are aiming to reinvent the wheel . I do not want 

to be one of the Rock greats but the guy they listen to. Do I think I can. Yes ...if I did not I would at 78 years old gave it up at 20. Will I achieve it. It is not my call.  

The listeners decide not the critics. 

A GUIDE BOOK IN HOW TO 

BREAK THE RULES 

WITHOUT ALIENATING AN AUDIENCE 

My biggest musical influence is Erik Satie. His use of harmony
and in keeping the music simple, direct and uncluttered guides all my music. Satie's music became a total turnaround when it was heard and dissected by Charlie Parker. Before this he was playing what everyone was playing. Big Band Swing. Charlie stood the Jazz world on its head. They thought he invented it out of thin air. Robert Fripp was another big fan and from the first Crimson band thru all his bands it has been a pivotal feature.

Think of the melodic content of a Beatles ballad but resolving phrases and chords using a 7th, a 9th or even a flatted 5th. The effect takes a listener on a very pleasant and welcoming journey but stops for a moment here and there to view a sinkhole, a crumbling old building or an obtrusive car park. 

___Can you actually add this to Metal? Not only can you it makes it your music sound darker, mysterious and Compels the listener to want to know what is coming up just around the corner. A journalist described my music as having a Sabbath vibe but with a Prog sensibility.

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...hell the guy is so cool I stole his look with the beard 

and I even have the round wire rim glasses!!!  LOL