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Frances The Mute
Empty Friend:
--- Quote from: sp2 ---A) Tabs are for pussies and no-talent wankers.
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I cry massive amounts of douchebaggery. A Tab that tells which scale structure a solo or whatever single note whatnot is in is much more effective than sheet music. Same with certain types of chord structures... seeing as how there are 14 places to play an E on a 24 fret guitar. Ass.
sp2:
My point is this. Most music is simplistic enought that you can figure out the notes pretty much on your own. This goes for pretty much ALL rock music. It's a shortcut. Frankly, I don't even think sheet music is really necessary when trying to figure out most songs. It's one thing if you're playing classical music with 5 movements that lasts half an hour a piece. But a 3 or 4 riff song? Please.
I told rudeboy that before he sits there and claims music is easy without having played it, that he should go, pick up his bass, and try one of the riffs. The riffs in Eunoch Provocateur are very clear and easy to isolate from the rest of the song. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out. You don't even need perfect pitch. You need about half an hour and about as much talent as your average chimp (and I'll point out that more than half an hour has been wasted by folks like rudeboy talking about things they don't know jack about). Playing that part is more difficult.
You don't really learn music by picking up tabs, at least, that's not how I've always learned it. You learn it by playing along and picking it up bit by bit. Tabs are a way of saying "I don't really care enough to actually learn how the song is crafted, I just want to play it." You realize exactly how much tabs are for pussies and wankers when you see someone looking for tabs for solos instead of just soloing themselves. Additionally, being unable to find tabs for a song is not an excuse to not play a song.
Frets are another story, but I have a hell of a lot more respect for someone who plays a fretless, because that does take skill. This also includes instruments like trombone and various orchestral string instruments.
Conatonc:
--- Quote ---The really is no right or wrong when it comes to music taste. Some people just don't think static feedback is music. I am one of them.
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The fact that you seem to think that this is all that The Mars Volta is doing shows that you have written the band off without bothering to really listen to them.
It's been a few months since Frances came out, and I've decided that there's enough cool music on the album to make up for the tiresome stretches of electronic noises and birds chirping. There's about 50 minutes of good music here- unfortunately the album is 75 minutes long. Still, there's something to like in every song, especially Cygnus and L'Via L'Vaquez.
Outshined:
I rather like "Miranda that Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore" myself. Once you get past the initial stretch of eerie, moaning ghost sounds, there is actually some sincere and interesting poetry to be found. ...And then they rock out.
I find myself quoting the album all the time... extracting particular lines for recycling in another form as writing or art.
I think TMV is really still finding it's legs... this album went perhaps too far in the experimental direction, and I think by the next album they will have established a nice balance and make something really worthwhile.
sp2:
--- Quote from: Outshined ---this album went perhaps too far in the experimental direction, and I think by the next album they will have established a nice balance and make something really worthwhile.
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It sounds to me that they'd disagree. It sounds like they were more or less glad that they put a lot of people off. Personally, I think this album really has a lot of great parts to it, and while it may not be casually listenable, it's still a damned good album. It's all a matter of personal opinion whether or not they like something, but I severely doubt Volta are going back to the style of ATDI. Their stuff as TMV has gotten more experimental, and Omar Rodriguez's solo stuff was hella messed up (given, I enjoyed it, but I'm probably in the minority).
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