Country music sounds different - depending what country you're in
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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This is completely true- where I live, Slovenia, we call the local country music "beef music" (goveja glasba) It is Alpine oom-pah oom-pah music with accordians and euphoniums and deedly-deedly clarinet, and busty ladies in traditional folk dresses. It's pretty awesome, really, and steady work for lots of musicians. Most groups have electric bass, except the ones with the most awesome horn players, who cover the roots-and-fifths bounce of course.
The UK equivalents are Morris dancing for country (pretty much the same as anything Cash did, but in white in case you fancy a game of cricket during a song#) and the Eisteffod is the equivalent of Western.
# prog was invented to relieve the tedium of test matches, although it's a bit short
the musically naïve will clap in 2 & 4 (although some will clap on 1 & 3)
Dream Theater fans clap on 2, 3, 5, and on 7 because those are the prime numbers and because it can be argued if 1 is prime or not, alternate 1s.
Korn fans clap on the &.
Iron Maiden fans don't clap. They just wave the devil horns out of time with the music.
Dream Theater fans clap on 2, 3, 5, and on 7 because those are the prime numbers and because it can be argued if 1 is prime or not, alternate 1s.
Korn fans clap on the &.
Iron Maiden fans don't clap. They just wave the devil horns out of time with the music.
Morris dancing Dream Theater fans don't clap at all - but they do clack their sticks with their opposite partner on 2, 3, 5, 7. I'd say it improves fertility but few Dream Theater fans have actually had sex or are ever likely to.
El Kabong always used Long Scale bass guitars given to the phrase ... "THE LONG SCALE OF THE LAW" but the phrase was changed back in the '40s due to WWll rationing to "THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW"
That El Kabong picture reminds me of the early days in the electric bass world. Before specialized tuning keys were available we had a process for Drop Tuning...
You'd drop the bass onto the floor face up (wouldn't want to damage any of the hardware).
If it didn't break it would B flat.
If it did break it would B sharp.
Needless to say, basses with tilted headstocks such as Thunderbirds didn't last long.
You'd drop the bass onto the floor face up (wouldn't want to damage any of the hardware).
If it didn't break it would B flat.
If it did break it would B sharp.
Needless to say, basses with tilted headstocks such as Thunderbirds didn't last long.
El Kabong always used Long Scale bass guitars given to the phrase ... "THE LONG SCALE OF THE LAW" but the phrase was changed back in the '40s due to WWll rationing to "THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW"
speaking of EL KABONG... because of copyright laws they couldn't use a name brand guitar in any of his shows ... they had to use top-notch computer editing back in the 60s to remove all brand names and designs from the cartoons ... here is what the above drawing really looked like before the editing ...
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Unless you are using 24 bit encoding... In which case you have enough money to not care.
Have you ever noticed how a few electric basses and guitars have a more organic tone than others? Almost all of them have one thing in common, and that's a pickup that was potted in vegetable soup. The trick is maintaining the temperature in a very small range. Leaving your pickup submerged in cold vegetable soup overnight won't work. Don' ask me how I know that.
Gibson is a viable company that acts in its clients’ best interests
l took my bass in to get a checkup and the guy said it needed to have its appendix removed ... l thought it was just having a stomach ache...
Celebrity artists exclusively play matured instruments. To get your instrument to that level, play it in the rain, throw beverages and glas at it, leave it in your car when it's freezing, drop it on a concrete floor and severely overtighten the strings, as well as the trussrod. If that's too much work, you may ask your singer to play it for a while instead.
