When I took drums I was told that I seemed to be infected with Reggae. I always hit the 2 and 4 instead of the 1 and 3.
When I'm writing lyrics I am often guilty of 'wrong-number-of-syllablitis. (In my defense, I am very good at fitting strange numbers of syllables into a measure, but when someone else is singing the lyrics it's a problem).
Nate, perhaps you should try composing in X/8 time. Many of the pieces I play with a brass quintet switch between 5/8, 7/8, 9/8 etc. "Send in the Clowns" by Sondheim is an example of this.
"Ted Burke syndrome: Symptoms=compulsively plays along with pre recorded back up tracks and avoids live performance with other musicians."
Well, we know Ted got chops, he posts regular (unlike most of us) he is entitled to an opinion...I'm sure... and am I to believe that a prerequisite on MBH is that you MUST not use backing tracks and MUST perform live with other musicians to post on here?
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"Those British boys want to play the blues real bad, and they do"
I too was wondering why the cheap shot at a fellow forum member. It took the 2nd mention for me to remember who Ted is, and then "oh yeah, the guy who posts an occasional video from his study". To his credit, he puts his name on it.
Have a sense of humor. Ted made several self deprecating posts earlier which he has apparently since deleted. I put up the "Ted Burke Syndrome" post in the middle of that as a joke. I understand that instrumental karaoke is a driving force here at MBH. Don't take me so seriously. I doubt that Ted did. But if he did I apologize. It wasn't meant as a cheap shot. Ted was saying worse things about himself anyway at the time.
Hvyj's got the reggae groove down correctly, and that's the basic reggae groove and the more modern version called doomba is the basis for the Latin music genre Reggaeton. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
The "Know too much" syndrome. Your ear is so finely attuned, and sense of timing is so good, 90% of all music you hear sounds like crap because one of the instruments is out of tune, or the drummer can't hold a steady beat.
I disagree that Sonny Terry's constant playing over (under?) Brownie's vocals is a malady. It's a very solid part of the Piedmont Blues tradition. If you don't believe me, you might take the subject up with Phil Wiggins.
As a result, you might name the constant playing over vocals (in other genres than Piedmont Blues) something else.
Well, as someone else pointed out in a different thread Brownie Magee might not agree with you. IMHO, much of ST's playing over/behind the vocal lines is very artistic and musical but on some of his later material it sounds invasive and overbearing to my ear. But yeah, it is certainly part of the Piedmont idiom.
You know who Brownie got to replace ST? Sugar Blue.
Last Edited by hvyj on Aug 19, 2015 9:30 AM
In the last years that Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee played together, they absolutely HATED each other's guts and each of them were doing something to get under each other's skin until they finally broke up sometime around the late 70's/early 80's, so I do have to agree with hvyj's last post, having seen them a few times over the years with the last few being painful to watch it happening.
It was so bad that they wouldn't even get to the stage at the same side or walk together, really two older guys acting like little kids fighting to see who was more tougher or more bad ass, etc.. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Bill Murry syndrome: someone who suddenly jumps on stage at a jam , no instrument, grabs the mike and begins to ad lib to the crowd about something made unintelligible by feedback and the combined clamour of so many jammers. Whether he could actually sing is always never determined. ---------- Ted Burke tburke4@san.rr.com
