xp i ripped off a bert jansch track! who probably in turn ripped off davey graham?
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 6 October 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
"Turn It On Again" by Genesis is another stupidly simple song in a weird signature. "Eleven" by Primus, "The Eleven" by the Grateful Dead and "Take Five" by Brubeck all on the nose.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
I read that Billy Cobham used to practice drums by suspending coins on the wall with tight rolls.
Uh, what?
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 October 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
Misread that as Billy Corgan for a second.
― Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
i didn't get the tight rolled suspended coins thing either
i thought tight rolls were what you did to your pants? and by that i mean you, reading this. i think you tight rolled your pants.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
Oh man, that Mahavishnu track and "Turn It On Again" were important tracks to me as a teenage drummer.
The Mahavishnu track is in 19/16. Really, you can think of it (and, for most of the song, the band plays it) as a good ol' 4/4 with three extra sixteenth notes tacked on at the end.
"Turn It On Again"... well, I've never seen sheet music for it. I always thought of it as having a thirteen-beat kernel, but 13/4 is far too long for a time signature. Call it a bar of 6/4 and a bar of 7/4, going back and forth, until the "I can show you" bit, when it goes into 4/4 like it's been there all along.
― SlimAndSlam, Friday, 7 October 2016 01:53 (seven years ago) link
xpost Billy Cobham would do a press roll on a quarter against the wall, fast and hard enough to keep it pressed flat against a wall.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 October 2016 02:11 (seven years ago) link
That is, do a press roll against the wall. Now imagine where the sticks are hitting there is a quarter or coin, and that the roll is keeping it against the wall.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 October 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
Oh, I gotcha. Dang!
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Friday, 7 October 2016 04:20 (seven years ago) link
Ah! (Had to google press roll though)
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Friday, 7 October 2016 08:57 (seven years ago) link
Just saw something yesterday about Mahavishnu final tour.
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 October 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link
^got excited for a second, but it turns out it doesn't involve Cobham or any of the original lineup, just McLaughlin's current band.
i wanna try the coin thing at home but don't want to mess up my wall.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link