Willow ,'Showtime'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Much like one with an off-center hole.
Does Beat Girl even have a lead guitar? It sounds more like a bass to me, because I thought the horns were carrying the melody? (Granted, it's not what I'd term terribly melodic.)
Maybe I'm being fooled because that "dim dim dim" sound seems played in a basslike manner.
Another stupid question: are bass guitars picked or plucked or strummed, generally? I'm realizing that I don't know. My areas of ignorance are vaster than even I suspected.
Quick, have her write 500 words on the differences between discordance, dissonance and cacaphony.
Music theory is an enigma wrapped in a roast beef sandwich to me.
Another stupid question: are bass guitars picked or plucked or strummed, generally?
Yes. Also, occasionally slapped.
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Another stupid question: are bass guitars picked or plucked or strummed, generally?
Plucked (with fingers, instead of say a pick or plectrum), thumped, thwaped, hammered, and occasionally bowed.
Though some people do play bass with a pick.
contemplates bringing the Chapman Stick into the discussion to really confuse things
Does Beat Girl even have a lead guitar? It sounds more like a bass to me, because I thought the horns were carrying the melody? (Granted, it's not what I'd term terribly melodic.)
The first two measures of Beat Girl are the lead guitar. The bass line comes in at the third measure, along with the drums and the (I think) trombone(s).
Maybe I'm being fooled because that "dim dim dim" sound seems played in a basslike manner.
Yup. They're playing it on one of the lower strings of the guitar.
Chapman Stick
Hee!
Theo, a standup bass (for my kind of music) pretty much needs to be plucked. The strings are thick. Although you can also bow a standup bass.
So music theory is Theo's math?
Dude, music theory *is* math. That's why I love to listen in on both types of conversations. Even though most of it is waaay over my head, it's always so damn sexy.
Bass is deeper and, uh, rounder (if that makes sense*) than the bassiest guitar line.
* And if it doesn't, picture the visual representation of the sound a string makes when picked. A guitar will typically rapidly ascend to a sharp peak and then slowly trail off, like a hill with a cliff on one side and a slow decline on the other. A bass, because the strings are thicker and range longer, will typically make more of a rising sound to the peak (which is more of a rounded than sharp peak) and will even more slowly trail off, like a bell curve with a long right tail. Guitar: say "pah." Bass: say "buh." Of course, this is only in situations of picked or plucked strings. Strummed and bowed strings are a completely different ball o' wax.