This article examines the role of music theory in rock musicians’ discourses about creative and other work processes.
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1. “They’re Scared of Becoming Creatively Impotent”: Rock Musicians’ Perspectives on Music Theory in Creative and Other Work Processes
This article examines the role of music theory in rock musicians’ discourses about creative and other work processes.
With a focus on Anglo-American and German-speaking contexts, this study analyzes various statements, descriptions, and recollections extracted from a diverse range of media sources.
The findings highlight the broad variety of perspectives on the ambivalent relationship between music making and the idea of theoretical reflection.
While often assessed as a hindrance or something to be neglected, music theory is sometimes considered helpful and valuab
2. Jan Herbst - University of Huddersfield Research Portal
Across these publications, he examines guitar virtuosity, musicians’ relationships with instruments and technology, and songwriting as cultural, creative and economic practice.
Professor Jan Herbst is a popular music scholar, musicologist, music producer and guitarist whose research examines how popular music is created, recorded and valued.
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Questions of sound, technology and creative work connect his studies of heaviness in metal, electric guitar performance and technology, collaborative songwriting, and record production.
Among his 10 books are The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music, The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar,
3. Rock Guitar Virtuosos Jan-Peter Herbst , Alexander Paul Vallejo ...
Inspired by other instruments, guitarists explored new affordances of techniques and technologies not only for their instrument but also for songwriting, recording, and production.
Since the turn of the millennium, new ways of using the instrument have been explored in the subgenres of rock and metal, as well as other forms of popular music.
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Our analysis of why particular guitarists became widely recognised and joined the established canons, as evidenced by educational material and greatest lists, and how they advanced the instrument will make the case that electric guitar playing has continued to evolve.
We will examine how rock guitarists searching for new forms of expression, ever hig
4. “Technical playing can get cleaner, and that’s possibly even ...
In addition, the study finds that modern virtuosos face greater scrutiny than those who went before, often being torn between opposing creative priorities: perfection vs. authenticity, innovation vs. consistency and technical ability vs. personality.
“Technical playing can get cleaner, and that’s possibly even more challenging than just being faster”: We met the academics who study shred guitar for a living – they explained why it’s changed dramatically since the ’80s, and the 3 ways it can develop
A new study documents the challenges facing modern-day virtuosos, who not only have to balance perfection and authenticity, but now have to be “10 things that used to be 10 full
5. Rock Music Studies: Vol 10, No 1
Abstractfor Let There Be Guitar: Rhythm Techniques in the Music of Malcolm Young, Maybelle Carter, and Bob Marley | Full Text | References | PDF (346.7 KB) | EPUB
Published online: 26 Jul 2022
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Abstractfor Toward a Systematic Understanding of “Heaviness” in Metal Music Production | Full Text | References | PDF (637.1 KB) | EPUB
Standing in the Shadows: The Songwriting, Recording, and Producti
6. Current Musicology No.105 (Fall 2019)
This article has its source in a larger empirical research project on
the distorted guitar in rock music, which focuses on distortion’s effect on
Empirical Explorations of Guitar Players
Attitudes Towards Their Equipment and the
Role of Distortion in Rock Music
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playability and expressiveness (Herbst 2016, 2017b, 2019c), its influences
on chord perception, song-writing, and production (Herbst 2017a, 2017c,
2018, 2019b; Herbst, Czedik-Eysenberg, and Reuter 2018), and on issues
around genre aesthetics (Herbst 2017, 2019a, 2020).