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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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There are as many sub-genres of jazz are there are of heavy metal. Examples include funk jazz, black jazz, death jazz, doom jazz, stoner jazz, speed jazz, thrash jazz. But the really interesting thing is that if you increase volume and distortion on any of the jazz genres, the music is indistinguishable from metal.
Don't forget to take a flat-tip screwdriver and poke as many holes as you can in all your speaker cones :- amps, stereo, headphones, etc.
Do this and you will wonder how you missed out on Jaco's recordings all these years.
Hardcore Punk Jazz requires a fretted four string P-Bass, played with a pick.
What is interesting about Hardcore Punk Jazz is that only a 4 string P bass can be used and it must be strung with rounds on the E & D strings and flats on the A & G strings. If it is strung the other way (flats on E & D, rounds on A & G), the music is then Hardcore Jazz Punk which is a very different genre.
Names for cross genres depend on the genre the musicians used to play. Blues musicians may move to Blues Rock. Rock musicians, however, can move to Rock Blues. The roots of cross genre players can often be seen from their instruments. Punk Jazz bassists mostly play a P-Bass, while Jazz Punk is normally performed with a Jazz Bass.
Things get complicated when a cross genre band moves on to a third genre. Punk Jazz Funk, Jazz Punk Funk, Funk Jazz Punk and Funk Punk Jazz can hardly be distinguished.
Things get complicated when a cross genre band moves on to a third genre. Punk Jazz Funk, Jazz Punk Funk, Funk Jazz Punk and Funk Punk Jazz can hardly be distinguished.
Play in a Funk Funk Funk Jazz Rock Funk Band. It hasn't got much Funk in it.
Anything recorded by The Below Average White Band.
The Cocteau Twins used the 'cut up' technique for writing song lyrics. Pearly Dew Drop Drops, is actually a cut up of terms such as 'pearl one, drop one' from a knitting pattern that was used as source material. In Our Angelhood is from one about making an angel costume for your kid. In fact it seems that 50% of the source materal was from 'Woman's Own' magazines stolen from dentist waiting rooms, apart from 'Dear Heart' which is a cut-up of an article about John Geilgud from the sole copy of Empire magazine that the local dentist had. REM used the technique using National Geographic for 'It's the End of the World as We Know It', which shows you how important source material is. My attempts to use a copy of 'IT Project Management Now' have failed to threaten the Top 40 so far.
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Of course Bauhaus just used an entire recipe for fishcakes for a song. Since 'IT Project Management' has not yielded good results I am now adapting a recipe for black pudding to break into the Northern Soul market in the UK, with the chorus "It tastes good, do-do-do-do-do. I knew that it would now, do-do-do-do-do". For the US market I thought a turducken recipe is probably the thing.
As of January 2018 the playing of high harmonics will not be allowed anymore. This was decided to not compete with other instruments that cover this range.
Also the lowest tuning allowed for guitar will be D standard, no matter the number of strings.
Also the lowest tuning allowed for guitar will be D standard, no matter the number of strings.
All 12 keys at once... Schoenberg. With random time signatures... free jazz. With Mellotron and lyrics about elves.. progressive rock.
