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so i am walking onto the bridge, lighting up a zig, and i've put on nirvana again for some reason, and the chorus of "smells like teen spirit" is running along downside my arms, and... no, wait, that's the wind but, anyways, i'm thinking. when asked about "smells like teen spirit," grohl said something like: "Kurt made us practice the opening of that over and over and over until we had it exactly right" and then i'm thinking, yeah, this is a three-piece, you have a limited set of tools to work with: kurt's voice, kurt's guitar, kurt's pedals, krist's bass, dave's drums. and then the songs are like, three chords, for an added challenge, and what do you have left here but cleverness with timing, switching on pedals like patch changes, and... hmm right away, yes, there are a lot of short staccato notes in the bass during the verse, but the chorus, they go glide, like duntduntdunt vs. dunnnnnn then, ooh! what are the drums doing? i fix on... i dunno the right drum words. crash? ride? i'll put it in terms that actually make sense to me: there's a crash cymbal start of every bar, kind of for emphasis, but then it does the techno thing where it's three measures of the same and the fourth you riff it up for tension, and the crash waits like two beats or so vs. its position in the previous identical three and then it's like the crash is controlled by an arp and you switch up the rate, 4/1, 2/1, 1/1 until finally it's landing somewhere around 1/4 by the time "...denial, denial" and i think that last segment, denial, denial, that's what i need to tear apart, because all the things are switched on. but there is also something in the buildup and yes, all i have to do is keep playing this and stewing on it and i could steal quite a lot from this. |
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kurt's voice, kurt's guitar, kurt's pedals, krist's bass, dave's drums make five pieces bro |
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He’s prol still alive like Elvis |
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I refuse to use YouTube anymore (dirty company). But, when I did, I watched a video about this song. 'What makes this song great' Pretty good. The thing *I* always liked, is the slight ... drag/hesitation... in the drums on beat one. It's like they are a few miliseconds behind, and trying to catch up the whole track. Listen for the crash on the downbeat. It's just a hair behind. It pushes the song along (I think the YouTube guy said that). Real grove, real anticipation, real feel. A simple song, but played the way it's played --- a true masterpiece. |
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It's like they are a few miliseconds behind, and trying to catch up the whole track. Listen for the crash on the downbeat. It's just a hair behind. It pushes the song along see, you're on it. you can't use 17 plugins, you have to be very deliberate because of how little you have to work with, and yes, just things like this from there. my favorite touch is the kickSnarekick, kickSnarekick in the intro as the bass slides that i'm not out to write such arrangements myself, just, keep listening to this, keep thinking, you'll get plenty out of it that you can use in your own stuff (I think the YouTube guy said that). you ruined it |
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