Second Post Ever! (and no; i won't title every post with it's corresponding number haha)

So i've already found reason for a second one (music based of course).
Now i've been getting into different styles recently like jazz, latin, bossa nova, etc. and listening to The Cat Empire's Beanni  i realised they managed to get a all those into the one song! the verse are latin based with the style of keyboard, jumpy bass, tight almost rushed drums (which are ska-like also..), the chorus is straight swing jazz, and the instrumental bridge before the last chorus has the typical bossa nova bassline (hits on '2&', and '4' and sustaining for the rest of the bar). Fantastic!


About that bossa nova bassline; so it's the 5th of the chord on '2&' and the tonic on the '4' (obviously for the next bar to avoid clashes). Sounds reasonably easy in theory right? Not to play it's not.. Cause your '1' is actually on the '4' of the bar it confuses the crap out of you; count the hits as '1... 2..3': 1 on beat '1', 2 on the '2&' and 4 on beat '4' (so '1' and '2' are dotted crotchet beats and '3' is a normal crotchet). Root on 1 and 3, 5th on 2. Now stop playing on beat '1'; play that as a tie from the count of '3' from the previous bar. Instant bossa nova bass! :D


(btw i hope that any little bits of advice i give on her comes to some sort of use; i'll only put up stuff i reckon others could benefit from, no stupidly easy stuff like how to play crotchets.. haha)
Catch ya'll!

First Blog Post Ever!

Yup folks; happy (or sad..?) to say this is actually my first ever online blog type thing sooooo yeah.. lol


So anyways; this blog is probably gona be more so musically orientated (based on it's title, you know; just thought it'd be sorta appropriate :P) sooo anything musical that i feel like sharing for whichever of you peeps out there read it; be it theoretical (i'm studying music at uni atm so there may well be a bit of whinging about that) to bands/songs i like at any given time to bits of gear i'm drooling over at the moment (probs gona be a LOT of that i'll admit haha).


Buuuut so yeah; just giving you all a basic run-down of the gig with this tonight, probs should be getting some sort of rest for second day of my 3rd semester at uni tomorrow :D 


take care ya'll and i'll try to get something up tomorrow if anything interesting happens from now till then. byeeeeeeeeee world wide web