Custom Headlights is another Grunge type digital collage that I have created. I used a grunge texture background from Grunge Textures and two photographs of the headlights taken by my son Keir M Gatzka. The headlights are from a custom Camaro and a Supra.
I used PhotoPaint to do the entire collage. I opened the texture background first - resized it and sharpened it. I copied each photograph of the headlights from Picasa 3 and pasted in PhotoPaint on the grunge background.
Using Little Ink Pot's Thredgeholder I created the line drawings from the photographs, individually. I used the object property Color Burn on them both for transparency and merged them with the textured background. I added the paint splatters and dripping using Effects> Distort> Wet Paint> filter on the objects before I merged them with the background.
I added a chord progression from my files:
D D C D
G G F G
A C G
C Em F C
And also added a cut of some lyrics from my song, "Got Your Clouds in My Sky." ©2009 Kirk Mathew Gatzka, all rights reserved.
Got your clouds in my sky
some cumulus and cirrus too
raining like tears from your eyes
Why am I tearing up too
The chord and the lyrics do not match up the chords are different than the song itself. Feel free to experiment with the guitar chords. The lyrics are copyrighted.
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Now playing on Windows Media Player: Kirk Mathew Gatzka - Got Your Clouds In My Sky
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Many beginner guitar players, anxious to get through the hard stuff and start playing ask if they really need chords to learn guitar. There's also the question of how many chords are really necessary. Some people have actually bought their first guitar, downloaded some tabs and learnt to play them. So for people who have been able to learn guitar without chords, the question is whether they can just keep going in this way.
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ReplyDeletePeople learn in different ways. Guitar playing is like any other instrument. You can learn by practicing what you find is for you. The difficulty is with the learning curve, for some steep and others shallow.
I enjoy using chord progressions, but that does not mean everyone will play guitar that way.
I have a friend that I helped teach him a few chords and soon he was playing rings around me using power chords and fingerings I still find difficult to imitate.
It all is very individual and personal. For myself chord progressions work well. For others tabs work well, and yet for others the musical scale and music theory methods work well.
I am still learning as I play guitar, I think when one stops this process that music can become stale and rote.
I hope it never happens that way with myself.