Guitar Tricks Insider February/March Digital Edition | Page 40

ACOUSTIC FEATURE

music and words – if you’re saying one thing
with words and the opposite with music and
you’re creating a sense of irony – that’s lost.
Or if the idea of a song is a musical idea, how
to write a song in 7/4 time and make it feel
natural, let’s say, it’s beyond them. I never
heard anybody say, ‘now that was a clever way
of doing 7/4 time.’ Instead, most critics are
basically analyzing word