It’s about the joy.
It’s about the energy.
It’s like perpetual motion.
Out of the silence comes music.
Guitar, to me, is like voix sans frontières – a voice without borders. I have approached many styles of music in my 50 year career and experience the same joy when each played well. I believe it takes the same enthusiasm to play a polka, acid rock, country, rock’n’roll or a classical piece.
From the first time I snuck downstairs to listen and watch my father and mother create music on fiddle and piano I was hooked. I grew up on traditional Canadian instrumental music and then I heard Guitar Boogie Smith, Chet Atkins, Duane Eddie, The Ventures and The Shadows. From then on I started composing my own pieces. The list of guitarists who have influenced me is endless.
Like a painting, you can’t be recognized as original by continually copying the masters. You must develop your own style. I believe this is what I have achieved with the album Wayne Faulconer C.G.P. Not only in the techniques but also in the melody of these twenty pieces.
Wayne
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