Sal Soghoian
@Salbert · MIDI Guitar · San Fransisco, CA
Older musician on a journey of musical rediscovery via MIDI guitar. • Personal Website: https://salsoghoian.com • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Soghoian • [THERE AMORE THAN 25 ITEMS. LOOK FOR “Next -->” LINK AT BOTTOM RIGHT]
A brief remembrance of the late great Wardell Gray, whom I admired after countless spins of a worn out 78 of him playing “Lover Man.”… More…
The initial four bars of this song just appeared —unexpectedly — and it took a couple of days for the second four to coalesce, but they fit right into place like they were meant to be there from the beginning.… More…
Greetings! With this children’s song, I’m exploring alternate fingerings for both wider and tighter intervals, combined with a smidgen of triplets. The MIDI instrumentation is upright bass below with organ… More…
I recently discovered a website by Bartosz Ciechanowski that graphically explains how gravity works between the Earth and the Moon (https://ciechanow.ski/moon/). The dance between two bodies in space is… More…
An homage to my time living on Airline Highway outside of New Orleans. Here’s my “Bass Couplets” concept applied to a basic Blues structure. … More…
Here’s a “thought experiment” involving my “Bass Couplets” concept applied to a waltz written in 12/8.… More…
My exploration of “Bass Couplets” continues, but gaining new insight. “Bass Couplets” is my term for the concept that for every note played by the “Bass Role,” two notes are played by the “Melodic Role.”… More…
Another great teacher I had during my time at BerkLee was Paul Schmeling, master pianist, composer, and arranger, Paul worked with such notables as The Smothers Brothers, Clark Terry, Rebecca Parris, George… More…
The challenge with Split-MIDI guitar is creating and sustaining the illusion of two minds playing in sync together. As with my previously posted version of “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” it is difficult… More…
Back in the 80’s, saxophonist Dave Stringham and I performed as “Stringham and Sal” five nights a week at the Flower Garden Cafe in Boston’s Faneuil Hall Marketplace. For five hours a night I played a… More…
OK, this is REALLY different! … More…
One of my favorite teachers at BerkLee in the 70’s was Dr. Robert “Bob” Hores, a saxophonist who was the instructor for many of my most valuable classes: “Improvisation in the Swing Idiom,” “Improvisation… More…
This song was a real “meat and potatoes” tune for my restaurant solo work (excuse the pun). With a simple melody and chord changes, it provides a great exercise in connecting standard Drop-3 and Drop-2… More…
During the process of documenting this arrangement from my duo days, the electrical systems in my aging heart gave out, resulting in multiple hospital stays and the installation of a pacemaker. I’m feeling… More…
[EDIT: While i’m working on another song, I stole a moment to update my earlier posted arrangement of Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek” to include a guitar tab and background drums] … More…
Another song from the “musical” containing “Same As It Ever Was” and “Wait and See.” All three songs were “gifts” where I woke up (on successive days) and just played them in their entirety. It was as… More…
It occurred to me that I had never heard Hoagy Carmichael sing his song “Georgia on My Mind.” Like most people, I had only heard the version in the key of F by the great Ray Charles. Luckily, Authur Landa… More…
Greetings! For this project, something different. Instead of split-instrument guitar, the Jamstik is set to sound vibraphone on all six strings. And instead of playing into MainStage, I’m playing directly… More…
Yes, it’s me, in my first video with the Jamstik Studio MIDI Guitar! … More…
Building upon what I learned with the bass-melody version of “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” this wonderful Rogers and Hart song is my first pass at full-harmonic live MIDI: combining bass, chords, and… More…
This project was challenging! My Jamstik MIDI guitar was set to split instruments (bass on 6, 5 and vibes on 4, 3, 2 ,1) while I played a quarter-note bass line with eight-note melodies at 100BPM. Whew!… More…
I have often said “Playing with Blue Indigo was like holding onto the tailpipe of a Chevy while being dragged around a parking lot.” What an experience.… More…
Exercises for “Split-Guitar” to assist in developing quarter-note bass lines with eighth-note melodies.… More…
A continuation of my exploration of “extended couplets” where a bass/melody couplet is extended by an additional melody note (two 8ths per quarter note bass), this snippet begins with a harmonic trick… More…
In Louisiana, hearing “roll-along” piano is as common as eating a po’ boy. With Hopscotch, I tried to capture a little of the on-beat roll-along combined with occasional off-sounding chromatics that act… More…