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 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…
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…