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Drop tune - why is it looked down on?
- Thread starter EatADeadGoat
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I have no intention of doing a video. As I indicated when I asked for the file, I'm just trying to get a better understanding of where you're coming from:
.....you're joking right?
edit: forgot we weren't just talking about metal >< my bad.
These are all pretty different to the norm for down-tuned metal stuff, but I think they're all fantastic. In the end it's just a case of whether low tunings are used musically, just like with everything else.
Edit: Oh, and Black Sabbath too for an old school perspective on down-tuned metal.
I can see the point of it. I don't know what genre this would really be, though.....
Very low pitched stuff!
Well, I've heard the first two called post-metal, among other things, and the last one is... shoegaze influenced metal, I suppose, though the guy behind it says he sees it as writing pop songs...
It definitely has nothing in common with the death metal and hardcore that normally uses the down tuning.....much more introspective and thoughtful. Less UFC, more Kung Fu or Aikido....
Now, here is something for the younger folks.....the 50's version of speed metal.....
Now, here is something for the younger folks.....the 50's version of speed metal.....
Definitely not modern metal, but there have been drop D classical guitar arrangements for a really long time:
Handel, Pachelbel, and Bach, to name a few.
Generally used to make playing songs in D easier and more full sounding.
I find the idea that there is only one correct way to do something to be amusing.
Handel, Pachelbel, and Bach, to name a few.
Generally used to make playing songs in D easier and more full sounding.
I find the idea that there is only one correct way to do something to be amusing.
Interesting sidenote - In metal, downtuning is MUCH more common in power metal and the likes than death metal/black metal. Its usually done to make things a bit easier on the vocalist in those cases.
And kudos on the link, I love a bit of Miles Davis in the evening!
Segovia in Drop C.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2F6oDzZv0I&feature=related
We all know how much of a hack he was
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2F6oDzZv0I&feature=related
We all know how much of a hack he was
Segovia in Drop C.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2F6oDzZv0I&feature=related
We all know how much of a hack he was
It doesn't really relate in any way as to how the tuning is necessary for bass playing though.
EDIT- For clarification of my point. If one was to play a bassline underneath that, what is the benefit of playing in drop C, rather than in C standard, or using a 5 string bass, tuned to B standard? For intricate chordal play like in the video I can see the point, but for throwing down a power-chord riff? I can't see it.
Read the rest of my point above. Why is the DROP tuning necessary, not down-tuning. I know various reasons that can validate tuning down.
It also addresses the post of someone earlier about how a classically musician could learn whatever another posted in a matter of a week.
If someone like Segovia would arrange some of the greatest composers in history to a drop tuning, why should we be such snobs? I would think Segovia knew what "correct" means in regards to learning tunes.
Another one. John Williams:
If someone like Segovia would arrange some of the greatest composers in history to a drop tuning, why should we be such snobs? I would think Segovia knew what "correct" means in regards to learning tunes.
Another one. John Williams:
