What are you listening to?

goyacobol said:
I am an old dude and I have trouble understanding some of the heavy metal stuff. Tool is for me a little monotonous in some respects but I can appreciate the nerdy technical skills involved in the guitar parts. I just like more melodic music but that is me and not everyone has the same musical tastes here. I am trying to learn what it is that draws us to a certain genre of music. I think every generation wants to create its own style as a form of breaking away from the nest so to speak. How we can put all that together and still arrive at some unifying "style" I really am not sure but here is one guitar teacher's explanation of the Tool guitarist's (Adam Jones) method:

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Interesting stuff, goyacobol. When I listen to heavy metal, to me it is percussive based, not really melody based. It almost sounds like you have 4 or 5 drummers on the stage. And looking at the breakdown of Jones' technique, it looks like that is what he is trying to accomplish.

All that percussion can create a powerful sound, but also can be quite dissociative because of the use of odd time signatures. IMO.
 
goyacobol said:
here is one guitar teacher's explanation of the Tool guitarist's (Adam Jones) method:
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Awesome video, thanks goyacobol, great explanation of how Adam plays that riff!!!

I have to admit, Tool is probably the only heavy band I still listen to. Grew up on metal, but have since expanded my horizons to become pretty eclectic when it comes to music. I think Tool are still on my playlist because they are pretty unique and a musician I can appreciate the skill that goes into making these songs!

Here is the song from the video above in case anyone is interested
 
songs are instrumental only and they're great musicians. songs are longer as they build up the sounds. listen with headphones to catch it all ☺️



 
This is a two part musical work by Australian duo called Dead Can Dance. They are like inspired antiquarians, I only discovered them in 2010 but they've been making albums since the 80's. I love them, really varied work over the years.

This two part suite is called Dionysus.


And part 2.


The album is well worth picking up in my opinion.:-)
 
This 1993 LEONARD COHEN song has many times, and this morning again is making me cry! I hope it does something for you?! Absolutely cool clip for that era. Great poet and songwriter, visionary if that is possible?!

 
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