How i wish i cud get high and fucking head bang , but cant do it .... if i'd try that right now then the floor wud be a mess, all thanks to my leaking nose . This fucking cold is not letting me do anything. Not even letting me type this fucking blog with both my fucking hands. Ok enuf abt my frustration now. Lets jus move onto music, the main reason for this blog and blah blah blah( I know that u guys know that this is a place for music .. blah blah blah).. damn i'm so sick . seriously i am sick . I know i'm pakaoing u ppl , so now i'll actually move onto music
Now as Sridhar mentioned , I was totally hooked onto Atheist for the last week. If u chk my scrobbler page then u wud see that i have been listening a lot of Atheist. Now apart from Unquesitonable Presence, I have been listenign to a lot of other stuff. Let's now pick one band , that most of them wudnt know abt ...... Aeon and their album 'Bleeding The False' is one of the most brutal and fast paced album i have heard in the recent times. The lyrics though arent very intellectual and dont contain a deeper meaning. But the music is good.They have amazing riffs for few songs and the drumming..... the drumming needs a special mention. I dont know the name of the drummer , but I did read his interview and trust me this dude is amazingly fast. Almost all the songs in this album have blast beats for like 99% of the time. Now that doesnt mean that this guy has loads of talent. But one thing this guy surely has is stamina and energy , to keep going at the the same tempo for 3 mins in a 3:30 song.
Since I anyways spoke abt drummers , let me clarify few doubts of pritam. I am no master of drums , so i might be wrong also but i am gonna write here wat i know . People might correct me in the comments section. Infact it wud be better if commented. Anyways, off beat is somethign that is not done usually or rather in a conventional pattern. Now suppose u r playing a snare on the 3rd beat in ur normal 4 by 4 pattern. Now in an offbeat , play the snare on the 4th beat. This is the basic off beat(I think:D ). But this can be done in a no. of variations and can bring out a cool effect. Especially wen chords change in a song , we can use these off beats to give it that little spice. Now , wat exactly are odd time signatures. Everyone gets confused with this. Even i used to and maybe i still am . But wat i know as of now is wat i am gonna talk abt. Odd timing is something that is not 4x4 or 8x8. Odd timing can be a 6x8 , 5x8 , 23x16, 13x16 and the permutations nd combinations can be infinite. So wat exactly do u mean by 5x8. Its simple , u r playing 5 beats in a normal 8 beat staff(8x8 has 8 beats in 8 beats) so this is wat odd time signature means. The bands that use this a lot are The Dream Theater, Meshuggah( A lot ) and sometimes even Death. Let me give an example. Try listening to Meshuggah's New Millenium Cyanide Christ. This song is the pinacle of odd time signatures, the best there is , and was composed by Tomaas Haake(Meshuggah Drummer... and my GOD :D) . He goes 4x4 on hands and goest 23x16 on legs for 5 bars and 13x16 on one bar. It sums up to 128 beats which equals 16 beats on 8x8 timing. This is totally a genius way to structure a song and to even physically cross the barriers of independence is a step higher. Thats abt Odd time signatures Pritam. Wat am i learning now ? ... i'd be lucky if i got time to even have a look at the drum kit man. I dont get time to practice. But at the moment , i am practicing the rudiments . The double stroke roll, the paradiddle and the flam. Along with that i am doing few of the double bass excercises. My stamina has increased right now . I can presently do a continuous double bass beat for 2 mins. But still it has to be increased. And then it is obvious that i have to also get better at hand work. Will take time. But i hope that i do it as soon as i can.
Lets get back to music. Apart from Aeon , i have also heard black water park by Opeth and the Mantle by Agalloch. Cant stop loving these songs, no matter how many times number of times i hear them. The mantle is so soothing, and Opeth bring out the best in music , in melody , in lyrics , in everything. The songs bleak , the leper affinity , dirge for november jus lift my heart to the blissful state where i can completely forget all the worries in this wretched place called IIT. Ive got one more friend of mine hooked onto Opeth. They are like magnet, once u listen to them , u r compelled to listen to them again and again and again .. and it never stops.
Chimaira ... have u heard abt this band ? .. EVER ?? common guys its an amzing band. Its a metalcore outfit from US of A. I was listening to their album called Chimaira(a self titled album). They have their own feel to all the songs, which marks the uniqueness of the band. The songs , nothing remains, comatose , salvation .. all are so well strutured with the right mix of rage , anger and frustration.
Well after a fucked day with labs and 2 quizzes the only thing i look froward to is, to listen to music once i get back to my room. It feels so good. Right now i'm listening to Aeon - Bow Your Head . I've also found this amazing black metal band called Abigor. And there are many other bands that need a mention , but if i write everything now , then there wud be nothing left for next time. I'll keep adding more , as an when i find something interesting. Untill then ...... Arrghhhh ... jus FUCK OFF
mvikred
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well actually the fact that u mentioned off beats...u shud try listening to indian classical music some time :).... like when i had to play for PAF in 4th year...it took me so much time to chamko something that wasnt a 4x4 beat....the tablas have lots of variations. So the band that i play with currently has a drummer who essentially learnt the tabla...and then i came up with a 13 beat bass line....we really had a great jam...so actually apart from having the individual parts have different timing..try playing the entire damn thing at a different pattern to start off..it can be real fun...
Indian Ocean is one more band that does some off beat stuff here and there. Like the time when we tried to play Maa Rewaa for the fusion event, we had a very tough time getting the 6 beat to 7 beat to 6 beat transition right.
actually if u see, more often than not (NOT ALWAYS) in rock songs..it happens that u have a standard 4x4 beat...otherwise in other types...it isnt that way...i think the funda is that when we develop an ear for such music...anything other than 4x4 becomes off beat!!!
exactly ... its jus that ppl started using 4x4 a lot and its become very common in all the songs , hence any other variation is an odd time. But there are many songs with odd time signatures and especially in technical death metal, it is used in many places.. and its also seen a lot in progressive death metal. Black hole sun by soundgarden has a 7x6 signature :). sridahr do ya remember that even the foo fighters song had an odd time sig for 3 bars or something like that , and we took so much time to get adjusted to that minor variation .. and still screwed up in the end :P
Wow. I use off beat a lot then :D Ok, some of it isn't intentional, but some of it is!! Odd time is very common in progressive rock, isn't it? And Pink Floyd ka money has a 7x4 beat for the first half. na? But still, all this odd time doesn't sound odd at all!! Will watch out for it in songs from now though...
But still, all this odd time doesn't sound odd at all
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LOL :)
@pritam .... u must be god at odd time signatures .. u have a natural flair for it ... do u mind giving me some tips :D
@sridhar .... dude try listening to spiritual beggars... they play stoner metal and it sounds good be. will get the albums i dld here at home wen i am coming. :)
cool. get them ..
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