Erik Mongrain: i heart guitar interview

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09-11-2008:
I heart guitar back again after a little failure with phone blogging... yes still not quite there yet... Peter says:
Hey everyone. I was out of town over the weekend and I fully expected to be able to still update the blog using my phone, but it just wasn't cooperating with me and I didn't even get a chance to say "Sorry, no updates for a few days, my phone's crapped out on me.


On to the interview... here's a snippet.

Erik Mongrain says:
I'd say Michael Hedges played a role there. His music was grand but his way of approaching music was all about creativity. When I read the book 'Rythm, Sonority and Silence' he did with John Stropes I understood many things. Maybe it can't apply to everyone but it really spoke to me. In short I understood that I was the one to decided if I wanted to create within limits and/or specialize in a specific technique/approach and I simply realized that I just wanted to try it all! For example if I am working on a chorus of a certain song and have been working on it for weeks, even if I did find many possible chorus that are really nice , to me it is not the "right one" until I feel these shivers in my spine and that rush of deep satisfaction. The chorus of 'The Silent Fool' for example took me weeks to find. I had many other very good ones but that's the one I kept because it spoke to me way beyond any of the other ones. You could compare it to mining.. If you find a diamond you could stop there and be happy with it... I just choose to keep digging to find the mine itself!
full interview

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