Chicceeeeeeeeeeeee!! Happy birthday my musically inspired SiftPal. I hope you have a melodically induced celebration

Thanks -- that was nice and definitely displayed the hardware much better than trying to catch glimpses of it when he's playing with the band. I think it is a bit wider neck than most US-made 6 strings that I've seen, *and* he has a bit smaller hands. Combination makes it look giant!

He's a really skilled player though -- I don't think I'll ever be anywhere near that good at tapping. Very melodic and pleasant.

Lol not everyone had a sound card back then. Saddly it does no look like anyone as done a video of the days of audio over the pc speaker. I mean it was mostly un exciting, but there were a few example of great engineering feets. Some games that used MOD music (usually if it was done on AMIGA first and ported to pc) mixed the digital music into a mono WAV form and used the interrupt heavy digital audio output over pc speaker method. I owned a game that I can no longer remember that had a custom audio track that was fairly simular, and rapidly alternated between 2-3 instrument tracks for a fairly convincing melodic background music without the huge performance overhead trying to do MOD music over pc speaker had.

If it isn't obvious, I was a huge audio fanboi back then. Started with my C64 and SID music (I even owned the external SID cartridge for 6 track stereo music), and when i got my first PC (486) I picked up a 2x cdrom and sound blaster PRO (had to have dat stereo sound) for my birthday.

Trondster! Happy 40th! A milestone indeed. Have a melodic, inspiring day

...good speed, technique, ...but melodically, compositionally...good speed.

All to the melodic sounds of The Cure

I like this. Melodically reminiscent of Jose Gonzales.

Nice of them to take years learning how to play beautiful melodic instruments, so they can use them as percussion.

That. Is. Awesome.

(And by 'That' I mean the incredibly well done mimic and not the song. That song is the perfect example of why dubstep is considered bad music by many. A continually repeated hip-hop beat with some semi-rhythmic screeches and drones overlayed (and nothing else) is the formula and makes for a very boring progression. On the other hand, the above Rusko remix is a perfect example of well-made, and very rare, dubstep. You can hear the melodic continuity from one section to the other even between sections with vastly different aesthetic feels. Please, all you dubstep producers out there, try. (: )

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Can someone please explain Jazz to me? So much of it just sounds random and dissonant to me - like that entire stretch from 1:00 to 1:17 or 1:53 to approx 2:50. It just sounds so gross. I'm almost physically repulsed by the ugly sounds coming from that sax, and it is a startling constrast with the beautiful intro of this song. What is the merit and reasoning behind Jazz?


It's improvisation. Sometimes you have to really be in the musicians head, so to speak, to get it. Because it mostly depends on how they feel at that time. Listen to the one in Norsueleffanti's link, that one is a little more melodic.

The opening to A Momentary Lapse of Reason is alright, but nothing compares to Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts I-IX.

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Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but it ties in beautifully with the album, one of my favourite lead-ins from any album I've listened to.

I'm not sure but there are a lot of good melodic parts in there, then it clashes with some awful sounding crap.

Maybe I don't know enough about this kind of music.

meh
the problem with long songs is they have to hold your interest
something that is difficult, the more slowly and melodic you play... no matter how you keep adding to the structure

SLEEP Jerusalem is another example of this

little too much borrowed from Tool (both vocals and video visuals) for my taste

Folk metal is usually melodic, but I wouldn't lump for example Finntroll (folk metal) and early Children of Bodom (melodic metal) in the same genre.

EDIT: Listened through it. Very nice playing, very nice composition.

Folk Metal = Melodic Metal. Different name, same genre.