After last night's Pillow practice session, all my doubts about Ralph's being able to play Pillow songs the way they should be played have been put to rest...
going into the pratice i was thinking of ways to orient Ralph with the finer points of guitar playing "indiepop style"... There's no doubt as to his guitar playing abilities but there's really a big difference when it comes to playing the way i want him to play as opposed to the way he's accustumed with... and inspite of his years with Candyaudioline and a few month's with Aspirin and how he'd jumped from the typical virtuoso guitarist to avant garde british pop rock to indierock / shoegaze and post shoegaze stylings i'm pretty sure that he still has to familiar himself with the simpistic complexity of indiepop playing...
i hoped to make him play around 4 to 5 songs during that practice, instead we ended up doing 7 songs (Bathing In The Sun, It Will Never Last (Forever), Harsh Words (Never Heal), I Don't Know What To Say, Stolen Flowers, Stay Here For A While and Losing Something...)...
Most of the 7 songs were done slendidly while 2 of them needs to be studied a bit more... still me, together with Rene and Jann Paul were quite happy and truly convinced that Ralph could really do it... If only Apple (I let sit out last night's practice session since she was too tired and i felt that i had to focus more on Ralph) was there to make the session more "complete"....
still a lot more needs to be done about Ralph's playing, and i sure am glad that inspite of his being an ace guitar player, he is always ready to listen and learn from me... i'm not rushing things, i'll be quite happy if he could be able to pull it off by himself, seeing how good he seems to adjust to guitar styles that he seems to like and appreciate... hopefully he'd gets the kick out of playing this type of music and get to truly learn the right feel so that he gets to execute it perfectly...
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