This should help answer that. Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Jason Mraz's guitar rig. Click the gear images for more info and specs at Guitar Center and Amazon. Amps - Fender Deluxe Reverb amp.
I plus Signal Boost. All images were taken by photographer Fred Morledge in November The Images are all licensed under the Creative Commons license. The resulting effort, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, was released that November, blending Mraz's early influences with elements of country, roots rock, and coffee house folk. The album tided his fans over until July , when the songwriter returned with the sophomore studio effort Mr. Mraz's popularity reached a new high in with the release of We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things, which peaked at number three and spawned his first chart-topping single, "I'm Yours.
He continues to tour and write, and lives in Southern California. Popular, traditional, and versatile, Bob Taylor puts Indian rosewood among the greatest tonewoods ever. This under-saddle transducer was designed for Taylor nylon-string models. Our soft cutaway has a flatter slope than our standard Venetian style. Compare Specs Compare another guitar by looking at a side by side comparison. So it was always a matter of staying present and having a sense of relatedness. I used humor and the awkward and embarrassing moments of my life to create that safe place for an audience to be comfortable and participate in these songs.
I also really admired jazz, and I know nothing about jazz other than I like to listen to it. So I would do my best to mimic it, whether it would be with my voice or just playing a whole series of major-seventh chords that gave it a jazzy sort of disguise. I wanted to incorporate that into my set. I wanted to offer up pop music and rhythms that people could relate to, but I also wanted to make it a surprise.
Did you grow up a word nerd, playing with language in the way you do now in your songs? MRAZ Yeah, I remember being in English class and creative writing class and always trying to outdo the last entry in my journal. There was something romantic about keeping this relationship with the diary and seeing your life unfold on the page. I took that on as quite a young man. When it came to songwriting, then it just opened up even more possibilities.
Did he really just say that? Would you agree, though, that in most pop music the words fall pretty low on the list of what make songs successful? MRAZ I do. Aside from the words themselves, you often use unusual phrasing and rhymes that fall in unexpected places.
Is there music you seek out that helps you break away from conventional patterns? MRAZ Hmm [ long pause ]. I love electronica, downtempo. The Mattson 2, Ray Barbee, Tommy Guerrero—these guys are making some really cool albums, and their phrases speak to me.
When I go to write a song, my primary instrument is my voice, so when I get a little groove going on the guitar, my mouth starts to emulate the tones and the styles of the instrumentalists that I was listening to for the last couple of hours.
So I guess the secret to not falling into the trap is to avoid the trap. Was Brazilian music an inspiration for playing the nylon-string guitar? I liked having the guitar around, so I brought it on tour. I found once I had it in my life, it was the guitar I preferred to play. There was something mellow about it, a really warm vibration, but I could also strike it with my nails and still get that kind of kicking, jarring attack but without the steel-string clatter, which sometimes got in my way.
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