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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.
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