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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

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monsterthompson said:
I wish I had a brain that could process this information. It is a very different language from my caveman grunting, and I've never been able to translate it. The rhythms and melodies certainly are working together and related, but I just don't know "how" they work. Half my brain wants to dismiss this style of music as nonsense, and the other half feels ashamed like it should understand it.
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Nothing to be ashamed of! Play what you like and love!

I can read music well, so that saves me on gigs like these.

The first tune here is in 15/8. Each note has a rhythm of 2 or 3, so each phrase we play adds up to 15. Looking back I should have put more emphasis on beat one of each measure. Anna even motians for that at some point in the video (beginning of the drum solo).

The second/last tune is an open melody, which means it's played out of time. I was reading treble clef, so I missed a few things and worked around that. Something like that is a listening piece. It's also open to a great deal of interpretation, which is a lot of fun!

What I love about music like this is not only the challenge of "getting it right" but also being ready to react to anything that happens at any moment. To me that's really exciting!

Edit...I love getting to see how people organize music. Everyone is so different. It's exciting to dig onto other people's writing.
 
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emjazz said:
Nothing to be ashamed of! Play what you like and love!

I can read music well, so that saves me on gigs like these.

The first tune here is in 15/8. Each note has a rhythm of 2 or 3, so each phrase we play adds up to 15. Looking back I should have put more emphasis on beat one of each measure. Anna even motians for that at some point in the video (beginning of the drum solo).

The second/last tune is an open melody, which means it's played out of time. I was reading treble clef, so I missed a few things and worked around that. Something like that is a listening piece. It's also open to a great deal of interpretation, which is a lot of fun!

What I love about music like this is not only the challenge of "getting it right" but also being ready to react to anything that happens at any moment. To me that's really exciting!

Edit...I love getting to see how people organize music. Everyone is so different. It's exciting to dig onto other people's writing.
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I can understand the enjoyment of those elements, even if I don't tap my toe. I agree that digging in and directing compositions for the things that move you is really where a lot of fun can be found.
 
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dukeorock said:
Just watched not one, but two Boards of Canada docs. Always loved there sound, but there was so much I didn’t know. Fun rabbithole
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I love BoC and it's cool that they have all that mystique surrounding them; I think music was more fun when bands like Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd were surrounded by rumors and mystique and there was no internet to immediately lay all their secrets bare.

But I think I am too old or too lazy to get into all that scavenger hunt stuff BoC does with secret messages and stuff. In concept I love stuff like that but at this point I just enjoy the music.
 
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monsterthompson said:
$1,000 Octatrak in the LA area on Reverb. Tempting.
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Just found this gem of a track that was an old EDM favorite. It's funny because I've used presets that sound like the bass synth in this track without thinking about it.


It kicks in at about 3:40.

My buddy had a sub-2 minute edit of this on CD, and we shared an office, so it would get regular rotation. One day we did an experiment and put it on a loop all day. I mean a 14 hour CPA firm in tax season kind of day, where we only left our office for lunch and refills of coffee. We never paused the CD player. People lost their minds, including the rainmaker name-partner of the firm we shared a wall with. He later got a subwoofer for watching CNN updates and war coverage as a way to fight back. Ahhh, the good old days.
 
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steubig said:
all my headphones are falling apart. anyone have suggestions for reasonably priced (not sure that is anymore) folding headphones. closed are better.
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These are fantastic transparent reference headphones. I've had them for more than a year and use them every day. Everything sounds so good through them. Great company. I've emailed them with questions about other products and the owner always responds. They're on sale now too. Worth every penny of $180.
 
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