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People who make noises when they play....

#61
Had a drummer that would hum along to the song. Never noticed until we were in the studio putting down his track. Heard a strange noise that took a couple of takes and playbacks to finally figure it out.
On another note, I have been known to yell, at the top of my lungs, “SING!” or “PLAY!”, when someone in our Praise Band can’t figure out (after many attempts) when to come in. It has never failed as a teaching method. :)
 
#62
We had a singer that would constantly count in for various parts DURING a song, not at the beginning, but maybe leading into or out of a bridge or chorus. He would do things like, "One more", "CHORUS!" or even "2 more bars!".
Funny thing is, he seemed to be the only person that needed reminding. Funny sometimes, but a pita most of the time.
 
#63
Slough Feg Bass said:
I do that all the time!
I yell at people during songs to take a solo, or to speed up, slow down, punches coming in 1-2-3-4, hit harder, hit softer, break it down, etc.
at this point I think it has become part of the show, since I don't really even say the words sometimes I just oommfffhhh, and uh uh uh uh , c'mon now!
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petrus61 said:
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I looked up the real version of the song after seeing this...It doesn't sound much different :roflmao:
 
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CatchaCuda said:
Forgive me, as I am new here...I don't understand some things (like carrots and tort) ^ was that supposed to be some kind of joke? Did the rest of the show sound like THAT?
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Internet has produced many meme parody videos that are usually called "shreds videos" where a musician expertly overdubs awful audio to video footage of a band. It is named so because the first videos were shredders like Steve Vai. My favorite thing about these videos is that you usually only hear what is on screen, so when the drummer's on screen, you hear drums, and then never otherwise. That genre of parody has produced some of the funniest videos on YouTube.

Here's another take on that basic idea:

 
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honeyiscool said:
Internet has produced many meme parody videos that are usually called "shreds videos" where a musician expertly overdubs awful audio to video footage of a band. It is named so because the first videos were shredders like Steve Vai. My favorite thing about these videos is that you usually only hear what is on screen, so when the drummer's on screen, you hear drums, and then never otherwise. That genre of parody has produced some of the funniest videos on YouTube.

Here's another take on that basic idea:

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Well I feel like a moron. Thanks for the enlightenment. I honestly thought the audio just wasnt quite synched.
 
#73
My guitar player often does the tuneless vocalizations when he's playing. You don't see anything but you hear it if he's close to you or a mic. But sometimes when he's doing particularly challenging fingerings, his mouth does these bizarre contortions. No noise, just looks like he's stroking out. Like that level and finger control and vocalization live in the same part of the brain, or weird pat your head rub your belly thing. Good for a chuckle.
 
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Lbsterner said:
A lot of jazz players do this. I don't know if it's something that they're taught in school, maybe it's something that is taught as ear training? You hear a lot of jazz guitarists doing it, singing along with their solos.
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I believe it is. Being able to vocalize your solos does two things: 1) it trains your ears so that you KNOW what ideas you're playing melodically rather than just relying on fingerboard shapes, and 2) it makes sure that your solos breathe. Sax players, trumpet players, etc. are forced to breathe, and it actually adds life to a solo so that it's not just an endless run of notes. Forcing breath control on a stringed instrument is a reminder to develop phrases with a resolution.

In the current bass world, this is probably mostly known in Janek Gwizdala's playing.
 
#78
Groove Doctor said:
I hum when I play. I found that out in a recording studio. :whistle:

We were recording bass track & drum track together. The engineer was panicking, he couldn't work out where the heck this odd noise was coming from - it was me! In the end I stuck a pen in my mouth to remind me to shut up.
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You and famed classical pianist Glenn Gould. The rec.eng. took great effort to minimize bleed through, but it is definitely there and ruins many of his works.
 
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#79
Funny how something so annoying can be such a surprise to the guilty party. I learned how to sing and play guitar lines in unison by listening to George Benson in the mid '70's. He probably never thought this could be mistaken for scat singing, but who knows? It's really difficult to play through a talkbox because you have to play, sing and keep that tube in your mouth in front of a mic. Very tricky, and you don't always play and sing the same notes. That's why you don't see many people using them. The breathing technique for soloing is important because your brain processes information using a similar rhythm. I would get a chuckle out of bandmates who made noises, as long as they didn't derail the train. It's easy to forgive people's idiosyncrasies if they're otherwise very good at what they do. I have little patience for even the most well heeled hacks, though.
 

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