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when to avoid fast notes
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Typical Metallica for me. Never have been a fan. Every song sounds the same, IMO.
Not a troll, just stating my opinion.
Not a troll, just stating my opinion.
Same here. I don't feel like watching some of their *official* live videos either.
On topic, sometimes you just can't (or shouldn't) match the guitar.
Dense rhythms and fast passages (particularly in rock and metal) sometimes just don't work, meaning they sound odd or they're just objectively too difficult to play cleanly. This definitely doesn't mean you're a bad player if you opt out for an simpler part - bass and guitar are just not the same instrument. Consider the timbre, scale length, string gauges, # of strings.
It's kind of the same reason you wouldn't play classical piano pieces on the bass. Let's take Moonlight Sonata - theoretically possible, but excruciatingly difficult to play and (IMO) sounds awful. Some music is just better left to certain instruments.
Maybe Cliff didn't play the triplets because he heard a different part. Maybe he didn't like the way they sounded on the bass. Maybe he just couldn't play them (we all have our limits don't we?)
Dense rhythms and fast passages (particularly in rock and metal) sometimes just don't work, meaning they sound odd or they're just objectively too difficult to play cleanly. This definitely doesn't mean you're a bad player if you opt out for an simpler part - bass and guitar are just not the same instrument. Consider the timbre, scale length, string gauges, # of strings.
It's kind of the same reason you wouldn't play classical piano pieces on the bass. Let's take Moonlight Sonata - theoretically possible, but excruciatingly difficult to play and (IMO) sounds awful. Some music is just better left to certain instruments.
Maybe Cliff didn't play the triplets because he heard a different part. Maybe he didn't like the way they sounded on the bass. Maybe he just couldn't play them (we all have our limits don't we?)
good point there. also, some basslines sounds good with the band but sounds awful when soloed. i guess this is the case here.
yes, moonlight sonata is a fave of mine but id rather listen to the piano version.
yes, moonlight sonata is a fave of mine but id rather listen to the piano version.
Finnish metal in 2008 is way different than the LA scum rock of 1988 or so. This is what was big in the industry when I was getting my feet wet. Modern metal is much more focused on the rhythmic bed and tight playing; 80's metal was all about making infantile sexual innuendos until the Big Guitar Solo.Man you've been in studio with some weird bands. (...) As you can see the drums and rhytyhm guitar get most of the action. Bass doesn't get that much and neither do the solos. The amount of time spent on drums is due to the nature of the music, because playing drums is like playing sports in our case
I was in Finland for a few weeks at the tail end of the Cold War, and I fell in love with their folk music. It's got it's own very complex rhythms and harmonic structures.
Does Finnish metal share the same kind of influences? If so, I really need to check it out.
