caballero reyes
The Living Force
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What are you listening to?
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caballero reyes
The Living Force
Another version of the 50's superclassic.
Train kept a rollin'
Train kept a rollin'
gnosisxsophia
Jedi Council Member
Hoo Boy,
Man after my own heart
Tick Tock indeed...
That slow bend @ 2.45 gets me every time....... thank the lord for Albert King
RIP SRV
gnosisxsophia
Jedi Council Member
Cool
Speaking of trains...
Or stripped right back;
'Train kept a rollin' is one of my favourites.
There is a line in the first verse of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah -
"Well it goes like this: The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift"
All musicians (and many people) will know that what he is describing here are the actual chords being played in the song at that time.
Most popular music (folk, country, rock) are based around 3 chords that naturally "sound good together" to the ear - the root (or first) chord, paired with the fourth chord and the fifth chord.
To give a simple explanation, think of the root chord being the thumb of your hand, with the fourth and fifth being the ring finger and pinky finger respectively. So, if you are playing a song on an instrument, you can start on any chord and find it's complimentary chords by looking at your fingers,
For example..
Disregarding sharps and flats, there are 7 major chords - A B C D E F and G
So the complementary chords would look like this...
1st 4th 5th
A D E
C F G
D G A
E A B
G C D
and so on...
Understanding this musical relationship, you can play any simple folk song, starting in any key, as long as you adhere to the above formula. It becomes helpful if the song you are playing is out of your vocal range, and by changing the key up or down, the song will be easier to sing and sound essentially the same.
The reason I'm bringing this up is that some musicians think that by making a song more complex, adding a bunch of different chords (diminished 7ths or augmented 9ths - jazz territory), outside the natural 3 chord complementary relationship, automatically makes the song better or more interesting somehow.
But for me, a songwriter who can make a song interesting and dynamic using only 2 chords, is something very intriguing and worthwhile, not to mention quite difficult to achieve. One of the most famous examples I think is "A Horse With No Name" by the band America. Personally, I find this song rather tedious after a while, and becomes a little grating on my ears. Still, it's popular and very well known.
I was listening to a couple songs the other day which I think are good examples of the songwriter's ability to make a simple song sound engaging and varied, even though they essentially use 2 chords - the root and the 4th.
The first one is by Lucinda Williams...
The next one by Bob Schneider...
Now with this in mind, listen closely to the following track by Brett Dennan. It's a lovely song, where he also is mostly relying the first and fourth chords, but adds the complementary fifth chord in only 2 places. See if you can hear when it happens...
"Well it goes like this: The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift"
All musicians (and many people) will know that what he is describing here are the actual chords being played in the song at that time.
Most popular music (folk, country, rock) are based around 3 chords that naturally "sound good together" to the ear - the root (or first) chord, paired with the fourth chord and the fifth chord.
To give a simple explanation, think of the root chord being the thumb of your hand, with the fourth and fifth being the ring finger and pinky finger respectively. So, if you are playing a song on an instrument, you can start on any chord and find it's complimentary chords by looking at your fingers,
For example..
Disregarding sharps and flats, there are 7 major chords - A B C D E F and G
So the complementary chords would look like this...
1st 4th 5th
A D E
C F G
D G A
E A B
G C D
and so on...
Understanding this musical relationship, you can play any simple folk song, starting in any key, as long as you adhere to the above formula. It becomes helpful if the song you are playing is out of your vocal range, and by changing the key up or down, the song will be easier to sing and sound essentially the same.
The reason I'm bringing this up is that some musicians think that by making a song more complex, adding a bunch of different chords (diminished 7ths or augmented 9ths - jazz territory), outside the natural 3 chord complementary relationship, automatically makes the song better or more interesting somehow.
But for me, a songwriter who can make a song interesting and dynamic using only 2 chords, is something very intriguing and worthwhile, not to mention quite difficult to achieve. One of the most famous examples I think is "A Horse With No Name" by the band America. Personally, I find this song rather tedious after a while, and becomes a little grating on my ears. Still, it's popular and very well known.
I was listening to a couple songs the other day which I think are good examples of the songwriter's ability to make a simple song sound engaging and varied, even though they essentially use 2 chords - the root and the 4th.
The first one is by Lucinda Williams...
The next one by Bob Schneider...
Now with this in mind, listen closely to the following track by Brett Dennan. It's a lovely song, where he also is mostly relying the first and fourth chords, but adds the complementary fifth chord in only 2 places. See if you can hear when it happens...
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1peacelover
Jedi Master
One of my favorite Artists.....Phil Collins -
In The Air Tonight LIVE HD
In The Air Tonight LIVE HD
caballero reyes
The Living Force
1peacelover said:
One of my favorite Artists.....Phil Collins -
In the 2.27 minute I thought it was President V. Putin who was getting ready to sing.
One of my favorite Artists.....Phil Collins -
In the 2.27 minute I thought it was President V. Putin who was getting ready to sing.
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to "fly" away mood
The band's name is 21 grammes (the so-called weight of the soul) and the title is "the game of the planets". If I want to share it with you, besides I find it cool, it's because the guy is involved in NureaTv, which gives us a lot of more or less interesting shows.
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written 1979
Some people get a cheap laugh breaking up the speed limit
Scaring the pedestrians for a minute
Crossing up progress driving on the grass
Leaving just enough room to pass
Sunday driver never took a test
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
Yes it's no use saying that you don't know nothing
It's still gonna get you if you don't do something
Sitting on a fence that's a dangerous course
Oh, you could even catch a bullet from the peace-keeping force
Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
Mother mary your children are slaughtered
Some of you mothers ought to lock up your daughters
Who's protecting the innocents
Heap big trouble in the land of plenty
Tell me how we're gonna do what's best
You guess once upon a time in the west
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
Once upon a time in the west
SlipNet
The Living Force
A song from the universe to humanity. Fall On Me by R.E.M. Heart rending song, this is from their MTV unplugged concert in 1991. How long ago that seems now, I was just finishing my GCSE's in Wales back then. I truly love this band, they are one of the few bands that have moved me to tears.
