DefJef
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Due to musical differences I've decided I can't work with myself any more.
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Post by DefJef on Feb 14, 2019 14:06:20 GMT
I take it none of you guys were one of the millions of people whop attended the Marshmello concert a couple of weeks ago. <iframe width="24.200000000000045" height="2.9200000000000017" style="position: absolute; width: 24.200000000000045px; height: 2.9200000000000017px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_77281481" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.200000000000045" height="2.9200000000000017" style="position: absolute; width: 24.2px; height: 2.92px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1149px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_74851828" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.200000000000045" height="2.9200000000000017" style="position: absolute; width: 24.2px; height: 2.92px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 87px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_61261557" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.200000000000045" height="2.9200000000000017" style="position: absolute; width: 24.2px; height: 2.92px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1149px; top: 87px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_32182043" scrolling="no"></iframe> Would that require more than my limit of 500mb of data a day salteedog? I tend to avoid anything that will eat that up.
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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Feb 14, 2019 14:07:52 GMT
salteedog I havent a clue about this concert? Pray tell more?
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Post by salteedog on Feb 14, 2019 14:21:50 GMT
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Post by salteedog on Feb 14, 2019 14:23:18 GMT
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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Feb 14, 2019 14:35:10 GMT
No thanks salteedog not for me. I must be an old fart, my mum used to tell me some of the stuff I listened to wasn't proper music. I'm certainly not in tune with a lot of what kids listen to today! I won't recite my mum's words but do wonder what's the draw of some of today's so called music.
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Post by salteedog on Feb 14, 2019 14:51:47 GMT
Can't disagree with you - it makes me feel old too.
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Post by LeoThunder on Feb 14, 2019 15:18:06 GMT
As regards Allan Holdsworth it will be interesting to hear your views on him. Is he emotional, so not up your street, and my bandmate has a point? Or unemotional and very much up your street and I have a point? I hear nothing emotional in there. This music lives of its intricacies and of the pleasant groove it is based on. I would suspect your band mate picks the wrong word or just uses yours for lack of a better alternative to express what he finds in it. I must admit, however, that I seldom hear any emotion in jazz. It is an idiom that remains foreign to me, but it seems it has been mostly cerebral since bebop anyway, the point of which was to be so complex that others would have trouble copying it. I grew up with late Beethoven. Now, that is both complex and deeply emotional in ways that make about anything else pale to the point of insignificance.
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DefJef
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Due to musical differences I've decided I can't work with myself any more.
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Post by DefJef on Feb 14, 2019 15:37:11 GMT
I can get with you on Beethoven LeoThunder. Interestingly my mate confesses to having heard very little orchestral music apart from Holst's Planet Suite which he really loves harmonically and comes back to for ideas again and again. I sometimes drag him towards a few other instrumental pieces that chime with me on an emotional level, funnily enough Mahler being one of them, but I can hear, when we try to work in a style that emotionally connected with me, his compositional ideas seem to be entirely cerebral and miss the point of what it was I was enthused by. I'm certain that insisting on a click track doesn't help either! Where I want a pause or drum roll to drag the beat, it always seems to fall too much into a grid for me. Everyone's touch is entirely personal though. Their own little signifier. I do wonder whether some musicians may actually be rather autistic though, engaging far more in the maths of music than in the art of it. There was a very interesting video on YouTube that I came across the other day where a guy was being asked to say whether he was listening to a male or female guitarist. I think he got 10 out of 11 right or something. I didn't totally agree with what he was saying about it being in bend control and vibrato but he did repeatedly say he felt women were often far more willing to learn the techniques of things, being very good and willing students, so that, technically, they were often much cleaner players and he could sometimes sense that. Anything that went a bit wayward he guessed may be a male player. That waywardness could sometimes be a little more expressive. I think I understood what he was saying. I know that Bonnie Raitt is highly regarded as a slide player yet I feel I can hear that technical brilliance but artless clarity a little in her playing.
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Post by LeoThunder on Feb 14, 2019 16:03:35 GMT
I can get with you on Beethoven LeoThunder . Interestingly my mate confesses to having heard very little orchestral music … I do wonder whether some musicians may actually be rather autistic though, engaging far more in the maths of music than in the art of it. The real deal with Beethoven is in the piano and string quartet music, not in the symphonies. This: I didn't pick the pianist at random, by the way. As to "art", it is a romantic notion that emotion is meant to be at the core of it but music is much more than just that. You cannot appreciate Franco-Flemish polyphony, baroque counterpoint, classical elegance or any of the more modern output, starting with Debussy, Scriabin or Prokofiev, through the romantic lens. Even in the 19th century, there is much to be found in the "classical" approaches of Raff, Saint-Saens or Spohr. Then there is the singular British approach with true originals like Bax or Vaughan-Williams.
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Post by r3v3nt0n on Feb 14, 2019 19:24:17 GMT
Localised fret wear is the problem of people who keep playing the same thing over and over. Schönberg invented 12-tone music to solve just that. Get up to date, guys I swear I saw some metal dust around some frets earlier today when I was playing Free Bird solo.
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Post by Vincent on Feb 14, 2019 19:44:28 GMT
So about these stainless steel frets. I do not have a lot of experience with them. I can believe they will last a longer time but I have seen comments suggesting that they can induce wear on strings and cause intonation problems. Another comment that I see often is that they can make the guitar sound harsh. Any experience with or thoughts on this?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 20:38:21 GMT
I much rather have steel frets wear the strings than steel G, b and e strings wear the soft frets. I can change the strings myself no tools or extra knowledge neccessery Thank you very much, stainless steel frets any time! I had those on the HB Dynamic and they felt GREAT!
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Post by Vincent on Feb 15, 2019 8:20:04 GMT
@chedapapa The complaint I have seen quite a few times is that players have found that they need to change strings more frequently with guitars that are equipped with stainless steel frets. Maybe they are just being mean. I thought you still had it. Did you sell the HB Dynamic? @everybody I think that stainless steel, as with nickel silver frets will vary in composition and quality. Some might be tougher and sound different to others but what if we use stainless steel strings? Who will win the war of attrition then?
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