Tom Morello is a pentatonic and blues scale riff-king if there ever was one, and “Cochise” is a fine example of that. That said, there are atonof Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave songs that feature great riffs, which is why I had to bring up Morello. “Cochise” starts off ...
Blues is a musical genre known for its simple structure and soulful sound. Most blues songs have a repetitive 12-bar blues chord structure known as the “blues scale”. The lyrics often express sorrow or resilience, and typical instruments in blues music include the guitar, harmonica, and pian...
In short, a guitar setup ensures that your electric, acoustic or bass is performing at peak condition, keeps little things from going out of whack and personalizes the instrument to your preferences. Guitars are made of wood, an organic, sometimes temperamental, material. As such, temperature an...
We arrive at the finalAllegro moltoand strike a friendly enough landscape, if not a particularly long-winded one. The only feature of its plain main melody that strikes interest is the flattened leading note in bar 3; the rest of the melodic terrain makes for plain sailing. One of the few...
“If the bass is right, the rest will fall in place.” When playing a chromatic scale in the lowest octave of the instrument, the bass of each individual note should be equally thick and solid. If some notes are really boomy and others sound more thin or bright, that’s a bad sign....
Now you know the history behind blues, but what is blues music, in musical terms? Blues consists of a 12-bar harmonic structure. Because of this, it is a very flexible genre that allows for improvisation and expression. Flattened thirds, fifths, and sevenths, parts of the blues scale, cre...
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What is a pitch shifter? A pitch shifter is a hardware device,DAW pluginor standalone program that alters the pitch of an incoming signal without affecting its duration. They can shift the pitch of the source material up or down or create multiple voices ...
With four dead and a mess at Altamont, Rolling Stone tries to get to the bottom of what really happened at the festival.
She is a Rhodes Scholar, Fulbright fellow, a recipient of the Technological Innovation Award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center as well as the 2024 winner of the NAACP-Archewell Foundation Digital Civil Rights Award. Fortune magazine named her the “conscience of the AI revolution.”...