{"id":1313,"date":"2011-03-05T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/captain-beefhearts-10-commandments-of-guitar-playing\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:31:00","slug":"captain-beefhearts-10-commandments-of-guitar-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/captain-beefhearts-10-commandments-of-guitar-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Beefheart’s "10 Commandments of Guitar Playing""},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain Beefheart’s “10 Commandments of Guitar Playing”<\/a>: “I haven’t played a stringed instrument since high school, but ‘Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing’ sounds like damned good advice for whatever you’re passionate about.<\/p>\n

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…2. Your guitar is not really a guitar<\/p>\n

Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you’re good, you’ll land a big one.<\/p>\n

3. Practice in front of a bush<\/p>\n

Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn’t shake, eat another piece of bread…<\/p>\n

7. Always carry a church key<\/p>\n

That’s your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He’s one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song ‘I Need a Hundred Dollars’ is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin’ Wolf’s guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty — making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he’s doing it.<\/p>\n

8. Don’t wipe the sweat off your instrument<\/p>\n

You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing<\/a><\/p>\n

(via Making Light<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n

(Image: Trout Mask Replica<\/a>, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0)<\/a> image from seventime’s photostream<\/i>)<\/p>\n

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