Word: taylorism
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...Eliza Harris ’03 along for the lesson and the three of them sat in the Lowell Junior Common Room, guitars in laps, watching Taylor’s hands fly over the frets of a guitar. Hoelting, in search of musical wisdom, instead sat attentive as Taylor delivered well-rehearsed diatribes on the importance of rhythm, the occasional faults of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and what it means to make music for a living...
...Taylor is a hands-on teacher. “Give me the guitar, I’ll just tune it for you,” he says after Hoelting admits she’d love to learn how to tune a guitar herself without a tuning tool. Taylor’s tolerance for amateur music-making seems too low to cater to Hoelting’s wishes for general inspiration, but she is endearingly chipper about the whole thing, even after he calls her version of the famous Beatles song a “panicked, struggling, almost, quasi...
What Hoelting and her roommates need, he says, is “bomb-proof rhythm.” This is Taylor’s favorite phrase. Yet to achieve bomb-proof rhythm, as Taylor explains it, actually requires a contradictory mixed metaphor. As he talks, Taylor’s foot smacks the JCR floor loudly in time to the music. “Mine sound like rifle shots,” he says, sizing up the considerably less audible ammunition Hoelting achieves with her green Converse All-Stars...
Hoelting says she went through college not really having formal music training, just learning how to play the guitar, “I want to bring music back into my life,” Hoelting says. “Play a chord,” Taylor barks. “Let’s start making music sound good.” His main prescription is to accept a slow pace of mastery and not to force a sing-along if panic ensues...
...Taylor is most pleased with Hoelting’s playing when she earnestly digs into a slow, soulful version of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” tapping her foot nearly as loudly as Taylor taps his and keeping a slow, steady nursery-rhyme pace. “Excuse me,” Taylor says to Hoelting when she finishes singing. “You were making beautiful, credible music...