Horizontal vs Vertical playing

[Barry Anderson]

Just sharing some observations for no particular reason. When I first started playing, my entire approach to learning and playing was focused on the horizontal aspects of the guitar. That glissando is so enchanting. Then learning the harmonized scales and really began to open up ideas about how to move between positions in a more musical way. But lately, I'm finding that there is a certain sound - it feels like an older sound - that can only be really achieved by thinking and playing vertically. Leaning into and leveraging all of those intervals that are laid out before us without ever even having to move the bar. This coincides with efforts I've been putting into focusing more on palm blocking, all of which feels like it's opening up a territory that feels funkier, more bouncy.

That is all. Much love.

[Dennis Detweiler]

Similarly like a guitar player playing vertical and doing some string bending. I do both, plus the pockets which requires horizontal.