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Seinfeld Theme Song

#41
tonemachine said:
You apparently missed the point of the show. That much of it was not all that loosely based on real occurrences made it that much impressive in tying it all together.
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No, I got the point, I just didn't care for it, and from what I can tell, the real people weren't quite my cup of tea, either. Whatever. I just don't find it funny, only annoying.
 
#44
tonemachine said:
You apparently missed the point of the show. That much of it was not all that loosely based on real occurrences made it that much impressive in tying it all together.
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It's strictly a matter of people having a different sense of humor. From childhood to the present day, my sister and I have never agreed on anything when it comes to comedy. She has no idea what is supposed to be so funny about Seinfeld, but I like it. I don't know how people can be so radically different when it comes to thinking what is or is not funny.
 
#47
Rocker949 said:
It's strictly a matter of people having a different sense of humor. From childhood to the present day, my sister and I have never agreed on anything when it comes to comedy. She has no idea what is supposed to be so funny about Seinfeld, but I like it. I don't know how people can be so radically different when it comes to thinking what is or is not funny.
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Yep, right. With that, I have nothing more to add on what's funny; I'm walking a thin line on TB so i must err on the side of silence in the matter. drool
 
#50
WillInDenver said:
I can see how the average person would have thought that the Seinfeld thing was a bass guitar. Listening to it with critical ears, though, there are a few clear signs that it's a sampled keyboard riff. The bends, for example, are a little too assertive to have been done on a bass, unless it was maybe a tenor bass or strung with extremely light gauge strings. Also, the sample voice has a little too much sustain.

Also, as is the case with a lot of sampled instruments from that era, the various notes sound like different pitches of the exact same sound, rather than notes played on varying parts of a string instrument. On a bass, the F at the 3rd fret on the D string sounds different from the one at the 1st fret on the E in more ways than just being an octave higher, is what I'm getting at, and you can hear that not to be the case in the Seinfeld theme.

That said, you can also tell that the guy who played the line on the keyboard had spent a little time playing bass. The note choices and a lot of the articulation and accents do sound like they would probably sound on a bass. It's a well-crafted keyboard line.

Here's another case study from the same era - Howard Jones' tune "Things Can Only Get Better." The bass on this song wasn't fooling anyone; it was obviously a synth line. But - listen to it, the construction of the bassline, including a few of the fills and ad-libs underneath the keyboard solo at 2:40, sounds, to my ears, exactly like it would have if it had been played on an actual bass:

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I gotta find what this cat is doing hey was really on the money - in a good way
 
#51
QweziRider said:
THAT is what got me hooked on bass right there. Hearing it out of a high school jazz band when I was in jr. high. One of those "whoooooaaaaa...that was cooler than anything else that has ever been cool before" moments.
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The funny thing is, at the time, I had myself convinced I'd never figure out how to play that, so I gave up trying - took another decade or two before I revisited it and realized how easy it is. :) (At least, the intro...)
 
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