I was paying attention to my right hand the other day, while palm muting the thickest strings and I was checking to get some pitch from the notes (first time I explore this technique).
I played an open E, then on the same string a G and an A…after that my ear asked for an E again…ok now you rocking guys out there have sufficient information to tell which riff line I ended up with…well kind of
pa pa paa pappa pa paa pa pa paa pa pa
When one says beginner’s luck
In the end, yes: the palm mute was light enough to still hear the pitch
Anyone with similar stories to share? …when you started practicing something and ended up with something more than that?
My example would be from a long time ago and the song even longer ! But discoveries by accident can be so rewarding.
I was just exploring my Affinity Strat mid 96 (it was a 40th birthday present from my wife) and literally just bouncing around on the e string and found the intro to this old Quo song (I’d bought as a single when it came out !!).
I was mucking about after a practice, putting together chords I have not got to yet on the course (from days of yore when I used to play guitar before) with ones from the course F G Em Am and I’m pretty sure that combo is pretty close to Cyndi Lauper’s Time after Time, a pure fluke
Toby @TheMadman_tobyjenner
I remember it well one of the first singles I bought.
Wonder what happened to the group, perhaps they did a few more records and then disappeared!!!
Well not quite yet
Michael
Yeah, happens quite often.
Last week, I came across a book that I bought years ago. Introducing Lead Guitar. I didn’t get very far with it back then but I’ve been going through the early exercises quite well. Last night I was looking at a 4 bar lick that I’m fairly sure I haven’t played before. It’s Am pentatonic but in the open position, which I don’t often use. I had to keep looking at the tab to get the notes and rhythm right. I spent about 5 minutes on it.
This morning, I was doing a few minor pentatonic pattern 1 exercises, then I started fooling around with the scale. Out popped last night’s lick! Different strings, different frets, different fingering but it flowed as if I’d been playing it for years!!
ended up with something “else” not with “more” in my case… I wanted to practice a certain riff and got mad about the tone… in the end, it took up a big part of my practice session to fiddle around with my amp and notebook …
Yes. A while back I was messing about with the major scale. I suddenly thought “I recognise something here”. I’d found the basic melody to ‘Groovy kind of love’ originally done by the Mindbenders (I’m old enough to remember that!) and then made more famous by Phil Collins. It literally goes up and down the scale note for note.
Obviously every song uses these notes and there is more to writing a song than that but it makes you realise that in its simplest form, writing a song melody should be easy.
pa pa paa pappa pa paa 
