Guitar Interactive – Issue 66 2019

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Giorgio Serci, award winning guitarist, composer, arranger

and long-time guitar tutor at The Academy of Contemporary

Music, continues his acoustic column in this issue of Guitar

Interactive Magazine.

there and welcome

to Guitar Interac-

tive’s Quiet Room.

In this column I would like to share a

composition of mine called ‘Lullaby’,

which features a simple singing-like

melody and a ‘minimum-movement’

approach in the harmonic content, as

evident in the video and the notated

example featured in the column.

Very often, when teaching composition,

students tell me that they frequently start

a piece but then loose direction or in-

spiration and don’t manage to complete

these. One of the most useful strategies

to overcome ‘blocks’ ensuring we finish a

composition or most jobs (in most cases)

consists of setting some rules, like a dead-

line or some guidelines to help us start,

structure and finalise the work.

I am not suggesting that these factors

are indispensable to complete a work,

however, without any of these, we could

easily get distracted by many things, pro-

crastinate with the infinite possibilities or

simply we may not feel brave enough to

commit to an idea, a chord or a rhythmic

subdivision in favour of another.

SPONSORED BY THE QUIET ROOM GIORGIO SERCI CREATIVE FINGERSTYLE

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