The annoying part is, it doesn't end with learning how he "plays" the notes. There's also the matter of how he _stops_ the notes. Hedges was very concerned with making sure that a given note does not ring beyond it's intended length. Off the top of my head, the last few measures of "Layover" are a good example. Notice how clean it is? He does this with ALL of his songs. When I play his tunes, I don't do the string damping. That's where my obsession ends.
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Date: 2007-08-12 10:56 am (UTC)