When speaking of consonance, we’re referring to notes and chords that sound good when played together. Meanwhile, dissonance refers to notes that sound off when they are played together. Similarly, we can speak
If you look at the exampleguitar licks in this lessonand compare them to the riffsin this, you will get quite a good idea of what makes the difference between a guitar lick and a guitar riff. In this tutorial, we will delve deeper into what a guitar riff is, its role in rock music...
In America’sSister Golden Hair, the catchy guitar chords are fuller and ring truer with more twang. Harmonies sound like they’re being sung with greater enthusiasm, and the bells underneath are less hollow-sounding. Hi-res FLAC tracks increase the level of insight again, prizing open the ...
After a beloved family statue falls from its perch at the top of the stairs and shatters into pieces, some folky guitar chords start to chime. Then, a deadpan voice: “The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire…” That’s right. It’s motherfucking “Fire Water Burn,” the supremely...
So I curiously re-entered my favorite church basement to find six airtight musicians blasting away with horrible symmetry, squawky sax shards playing against dissonant guitar chords and wonderfully unpredictable rhythmic cells. To put it simply, Zs took me to the nether regions of musical abstraction...
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With the string trio, despite the CD leaflet’s stipulation that it is a nature portrait similar to theConcertino, we are in a different landscape where abrasive chords serve as fulcrum points, demanding attention right from the opening. True, you hear whistles and throbbings that might represen...
The saving grace is that we do manage to pass it on, like boxes at a funeral, in so many conscious and unconscious ways. My son, Stuart, is a musician with tastes so eclectic and varied that he could only be my son. The licks from his guitar, I swear, I have heard from my gran...
Carlos Santana is a guitar legend. His career has spanned over 50 years, and, while his music is eclectic, foundationally it always comes back to the blues. “If you can play some blues you can play anything. If you can’t play the blues you should do another thing as a pr...
notated without much details. In bar 1 it's a bass drum beat at the downbeat. The bass pauses on the downbeat during all four bars of this example. Something similar is going on during "Panty rap". More characteristic of reggae are the rhythm guitar chords between beats, or on beats ...