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Math Rock/ Mathcore/ Post-Rock Bassists Club!

#62
specialc said:
I'm currently playing with a band called Armenian Space Station, which has a song in 23/8 time. That's something I would definitely call math rock since I heretofore ate, slept and dreamed in either 4/4 or 6/8. It definitely has an off-kilter edge that is jolting in a good, hard-hitting way.

To hear it, go to Link Removed and click on "Fire in the Sky" in the music player. (The other songs are pretty proggy too.) Play along if you want, but warning: math riffs are highly addictive once you get your head around them! :bassist:
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finally got a chance to check this out. reminds me of Architeuthis, a band that my old band Golden Arm played with a couple of times. great drums and piano

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#64
Angus said:
that is because the former does not exist in western notation and nobody uses the latter. The former could be seen as triplet 16ths, but nobody actually does stuff like that (and I challenge any person who uses the word "mathcore" to play/count out either of those times for a sustained period). People who talk about signatures like that tend to talk big but then mostly play stuff in 4/4 that just cycles past the bar line.

Just ime.
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Absolutely! Especially about the 23/24 part. Unless you're playing at some ridiculously low tempo, I don't think triplet 16ths will be easy to count.
 
#69
I like music that has interesting qualities apart from just being in odd times....

with that said, I love DEP, Meshuggah, some of the older Periphery stuff, Horse the Band, Ion Dissonance, Venetian Snares.... I think Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Tool, Mastodon and others are really doing good proggish type stuff with an emphasis on strange time sigs.

My favorite band I've been in was a metal/hardcore/prog band with a lot of different times, my favorite was in 21/4 and still had a thick sludgy groove to it. Link Removed (21, not the most creative title) But that was years ago..

I'd love to start up a post-rock band with ambient and math elements, I dig Mute Math, Tortoise, Jaga Jazzist...
 
#72
I was glad to see buff clout mentioned, They are cool dudes.

also, (forgive me if any of these were mentioned) some cool bands in this vein:

Volta Do Mar
Ghosts and Vodka
Piglet
Swims (same bass player as planets)
 
#74
Lackey said:
I like music that has interesting qualities apart from just being in odd times.
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+10 billion.
Too many folks get hung up in making "clever" music and seem to forget about making it "interesting" music.

I did a session just this past week with a songwriter (sic) whose tunes didn't really go anywhere...when he asked my opinion I said I thought the tunes could use a bit more development. He responded "But this one's in seven! And this one alternates between six and five!"

Uh-huh. Like I said...
 
#75
^ yes suh.

On a side note, the ol' mathy band used to have a song with verses where the drums repeated 7/8 three times, then hit a turn on 3/8. Bass had a 7/4 to 5/4 kinda latin feel. When people would ask what time signature the part was in, we'd look at 'em funny and say "What? 4/4." and act like we had no idea what they were talking about.
 
#79
taphappy said:
^ yes suh.

On a side note, the ol' mathy band used to have a song with verses where the drums repeated 7/8 three times, then hit a turn on 3/8. Bass had a 7/4 to 5/4 kinda latin feel. When people would ask what time signature the part was in, we'd look at 'em funny and say "What? 4/4." and act like we had no idea what they were talking about.
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How clever. You know that you just said exactly the type of thing that everybody makes fun of "math rock musicians" for.
 

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