guitarists: your favourite guitar chord (4 Viewers)

[plug]

Re: drummers: your favourite drum beat.......

play 'the power of independent trucking' and then tell me it is.

but isn't that a drum machine? is this competition open to submission of electronically created beats? curious... it is a great beat by the way...

I'm not sure what my favourite beat is at the moment but "good times bad times" by led zep is always pretty inspiring. funky and rockin'. a good mix! if drum machines are included, any early '80s breakdancing electro beat will float my boat. or anything by harvey mason (played drums for herbie hancock during the '70s). hmmm, going off topic here...

bit from 'in the abscence of strong evidence to the contrary, one may step out of the way of the charging bull' by don cab, where it all speeds up and then this big bonham style groove with two snare drums come out of the noise, and you can hear someone shouting "wooo!"
hehe
"wooo!"

the one with the cowbell and shit? YESH!!!! .|..|

 

[plug]

Re: drummers: your favourite drum beat.......

badumtish

this is the winning answer

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Re: drummers: your favourite drum beat.......

that tune peg by steely dan has a great beat, the purdie shuffle. such a smooth groove, its got just enough serote to grease my sticks and snap my snare.

 

[Gippo]

Re: drummers: your favourite drum beat.......

It's gotta be [SIZE=-1] Meat Abstract by Therapy? Wow! .|..|
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[chickenham]

Re: drummers: your favourite drum beat.......

that tune peg by steely dan has a great beat, the purdie shuffle. such a smooth groove, its got just enough serote to grease my sticks and snap my snare.

That b'aint Bernard Purdie m'man. That be Jerry Marotta.
'Home at last' features the legendary half-time 'Purdie shuffle'

Jaki Liebezeit's groove would be the clincher for me
or Ed Blackwell on Ornette's records.

 

[Pantone247]

Re: drummers: your favourite drum beat.......

that tune peg by steely dan has a great beat, the purdie shuffle. such a smooth groove, its got just enough serote to grease my sticks and snap my snare.

DE LA SOUL sampled it for I Know I Love You Better

both deadly

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Re: drummers: your favourite drum beat.......

That b'aint Bernard Purdie m'man. That be Jerry Marotta.
'Home at last' features the legendary half-time 'Purdie shuffle'

yes your spot on there. Peg featured the legendary 'marotta mondatta' beat. ok, same page, great.

 

[oh shit]

Re: drummers: your favourite drum beat.......

the one with the cowbell and shit? YESH!!!! .|..|

yes
just went back to the record there - turns out the tags on my mp3s are wrong, it's delivering the groceries at 138bpm
i'm sure everyone is relieved now that's straightened out

 

[Charlie Bucket]

while we're talking random finger placing that sounds good

E A D G B E
0 7 5 6 0 0

which I thinks gives a Emaj7 with a 3rd instead of a 5th and lots of jangle from the open B and E strings

I got over the Em - Am Teenage thing when I discovered Emaj7...

life seemed so much more cheery all of a sudden...

anyone here speak english?!zed

and while i'm at it do you people who know chords hear music or just a sequence of letters when ye hear music?

it always puzzled me that some people have such a scientific approach to music which, some might say,is a bit like unweaving the rainbow...

 

[Pantone247]

it always puzzled me that some people have such a scientific approach to music which, some might say,is a bit like unweaving the rainbow...

do you feel the same about people who learn how to read books?

 

[kevin gallen]

Should this be in the nerd forum.......?

anyway il go for fmaj7 or d#dim

 

[Anthony]

do you feel the same about people who learn how to read books?

those weirdos?! pfft

 

[therealjohnny]

so whats everybody's favorite guitar solo? maybe this deserves a thread to itself...

I was pretty pleased with my pinitlessly excessive guitar widdling on this tune my band recorded
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fivelamps/Bincharge_bannerofchrist.mp3

Some great stupid metal solos of our time include;

Europe- Final Countdown
Kiss- Crazy Nights

plus millions of others i can't be arsed typing out

small bonus point for the subtle little solo in The Stranglers' Golden Brown- nice

 

[desertedvillage]

anyone here speak english?!zed

and while i'm at it do you people who know chords hear music or just a sequence of letters when ye hear music?

Depends what mode of listening you're in or how hard the chords are.
In metrical musci I tend to 'see' 3D interlocking geometric structures with moving parts in some kind of grid. Sometimes I see guitars or glowing frequency response graphs.......
I find it very easy to flip from analytical mode to the sensory mode.
Most chords in popular music are blindingly obvious so that ya wouldn't really take much head of them.

it always puzzled me that some people have such a scientific approach to music which, some might say,is a bit like unweaving the rainbow...

What's wrong with people exploring their instruments and sharing chords?
Would it be better to post mp3s of our chords and 'feel' them?
If it's your job to weave the rainbow in the first place it can be useful to think and communicate in these terms.
Like or not music is physics and physics lends itself to being expressed as maths. Music isn't all about the ecstatic heat of inspiration, inspiration has to be made audible. By absorbing the basics of music theory to the point where you don't have to think about it you can instantly play what you hear in your head on time and in key. When you get this right, that's when the magic starts.
What little I've taught myself about the clockwork of western music hasn't hampered my enjoyment of music on a visceral or emotional level at all.

A lot of people say they'd never learn scales because it would restrict them and spend all day playing them.
A strong personality won't be buckled by a bit o' theory I say.

If some nerd hadn't unwoven the silacone rainbow we wouldn't be having this conversation.

 

[potlatch]

Hey, does anyone wanna jam?

I'll start.

Em
e|-------0-----|-------0-----|-------0-----|-------0---7-|-7-------7p0------|
b|-----0---0---|-----0---0---|-----0---0---|-----0---0---|----0---------0---|
G|---0-------0-|---0-------0-|---0-------0-|---0---------|-------0--------0-|
D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------------|
E|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0----------------|

                                 Am
e|-----7-8-7h8p7-5-|-7-5p3p2-0-|-------2p0-----|-------0-----|
b|-----0-0-0-----0-|-0---------|-5---5-----5---|-----5---5-5-|
G|---0-------------|-----------|---5---------5-|---5-----5-5-|
D|-----------------|-----------|---------------|-------------|
A|-----------------|-----------|-0-------------|-0-------0-2-|
E|-0---------------|-----------|---------------|-------------|

   C                   D add2                 Em
e|---------3p0-------|---------0h5p0--------|---------[12]-----|-------0-----|
b|-5---5-------5---5-|-7---7--------7p0-0h5-|-----[12]-----0---|-----0---0---|
G|-5-5---5-------5-5-|-7-7---7--------------|--[12]----------0-|---0-------0-|
D|-------------------|----------------------|------------------|-------------|
A|-3---------------3-|-5--------------------|------------------|-------------|
E|-------------------|----------------------|-0----------------|-0-----------|

                                Em          D      C     x3 G      B7
e|-------0-----|-------0-----||---------7-|--------------||--------------|
b|-----0---0---|-----0---0---||---------8-|-----7------5-||-----3------4-|
G|---0-------0-|---0-------0-||*------9---|-----7------5*||-----4------2-|
D|-------------|-------------||*----9-----|---7------5--*||---5------4---|
A|-------------|-------------||---7-------|-5------3-----||--------2-----|
E|-0-----------|-0-----------||-0---------|--------------||-3------------|

 

[chickenham]

I feel that D minor is the saddest of all keys.

 

[therealjohnny]

...

 

[Anthony]

nothing else matters? is it?

 

[potlatch]

nothing else matters? is it?

WOW.

 

[egg_]

a scientific approach to music which, some might say,is a bit like unweaving the rainbow...

It's not scientific, really, it's just naming things. This sound drrring is called a Gmaj7 and on the guitar you can make it by putting your fingers in these positions ...
That's all

Anyway, rainbows aren't woven dude, they're natural phenomena