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]
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…
This “deconstruction” of Vince’s classic theme has been looming around my mind and over my spirit for weeks.… More…
OK, you can stop laughing!… More…
A simple exercise I composed to explore the concept and sound of playing a melody with bass accompaniment. … More…
It is difficult to describe the feeling of being inside the sound emanating from my Bose L1 system. (https://www.boseprofessional.com/en_us/products/portable/l1.html)… More…
This began with a simple bass and melody idea that flowed to its logical conclusion. The split guitar concept is beginning to feel a bit more “normal” to me. What a wonderful axe the Jamstik Studio MIDI… More…
Making progress!… More…
An update of one of my earliest arrangements, the Fats Waller classic “Ain’t Misbehavin’”. This is a rendered version that I play along with for practice using my Jamstik Studio MIDI Guitar with strings… More…
Using elements from the “Split Guitar” · G minor 6th posting, here’s a concept for a shuffle groove, accompanied by a basic GarageBand drum track. Cheers! — SAL More…
A phrase for describing my approach to MIDI is “Split Guitar” meaning the instrument is sub-divided into string sets with roles: the bottom two strings are used for the Bass Role and the top four strings… More…
(Just a quick version of my previously posted arrangement of this great Frank Loesser tune) … More…
A solo over the chord changes of “(Our) Love is Here to Stay” by George Gershwin, using a Jamstik Studio MIDI Guitar and Apple MainStage software mapped to a Steinway Grand piano on the top-4 strings and… More…
From the Blue Indigo “Catwalk” album on iTunes:… More…
©2023 Nyhthawk Productions LLC. All rights reserved.… More…
Three-part arrangement for MIDI guitar ©2023 Sal Soghoian, Nyhthawk Productions. All rights reserved.… More…
Three-part arrangement for MIDI guitar ©2023 Sal Soghoian, Nyhthawk Productions. All rights reserved.… More…
Three-part arrangement for MIDI guitar ©2023 Sal Soghoian, Nyhthawk Productions. All rights reserved.… More…
Three-part arrangement for MIDI guitar ©2023 Sal Soghoian, Nyhthawk Productions.. All rights reserved.… More…
A song I wrote for a musical. In this scene the protagonist is warning his friend about falling in love, when he himself is falling in love (unbeknownst to him) with a girl he recently met.… More…
I thought I’d try out the excellent SoundSlice tablature tools by transcribing the ending over-tracked solo on “Night and Day” from my “To Be With You” album.… More…
Three-part arrangement for MIDI guitar ©2023 Sal Soghoian, Nyhthawk Productions.. All rights reserved.… More…