everyone who has touched a sampler or DAW has done this. it's one of the most basic production techniques. it's like painting a nursery room and thinking you're rothko or strumming an open tuned guitar and thinking you're tal farlow (with fallon clapping like a 4 year old the whole time).

I dunno man, watch her right hand as she strums, it may be relatively similar.

I don't hear that guitar at all.
He keeps strumming like it's connected to something.

His sorta flamenco-style percussion is very cool and adds something to the cover; unfortunately since we only have two hands he has to rely on clean hammer-ons (which to be fair, he does very well) to produce the correct notes on the actual strings as opposed to fretting and then strumming or picking as usual. Despite his skill, occasionally notes get missed and they are frequently not as loud compared to the percussion as would be ideal.

Worth an upvote, but I'd love to see him arrange a version for two guitars with one doing the percussion and harmony and another one doing the melody with conventional strumming. It wouldn't be *twice* as good, but I think it would be significantly better.

...forget the 'possibly', they are definitely not really playing. They keep strumming when it goes quiet, and are not in sync with each other. Later they forget to even strum at times and just swing the instruments around.

The yt description explains it a bit:

Seiji is tormented by horrible tsunami-flashback dreams, but one night he wakes up and his beloved grandfather has appeared. With a strum of his grandfather's guitar, Seiji is transported to a colorful, slightly strange, psychedelic world and finally manages to have a good dream.

Artwork by UrumaDelvi
Music by David Byrne and Ryuichi Sakamoto

Zapuni brings together Japanese artist with world renowned musicians to create works for charity.

Learn more at http://zapuni.com

Buy Psychedelic Afternoon music track from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/psychelic-afternoon-single/id611208152

Our first project has produced two anime-music videos created - one by UrumaDelvi with David Byrne and the other by Yutaka Yamamoto with Sigur Ros. Our goal is to raise money for charity programs like School Music Revival using the videos.

Dig it better that the original-Love the flamenco-esque tempo and strumming a lot-Very groovy-This cat's spent many-an-hour in the woodshed-

>> ^zombieater:

>> ^PlayhousePals:
That was awkward. Reminds me of something that happened to me once [shudder] =o/

Aw are you somebody's wolf cub?


Here's the story:


Twas a dark [and drunken] early, EARLY morning following a raucous evening dancing the night away to one of my favorite local bands. After hour parties at my place were the norm and that night was no exception. Following the departure of "the gang" around 4am I discovered, seated at the foot of my bed, a straggler strumming away on my guitar [heavy sigh]. Barely an acquaintance, he insisted on playing for me his latest composition. Let's just say he was no ... um ... Jackson Browne. I was at a loss for words and recall an extremely uncomfortable silence at the end of the song. AWKWARD =o/

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Do tell, @PlayhousePals


Twas a dark [and drunken] early, EARLY morning following a raucous evening dancing the night away to one of my favorite local bands. After hour parties at my place were the norm and that night was no exception. Following the departure of "the gang" around 4am, I discovered, seated at the foot of my bed, a straggler strumming away on my guitar [heavy sigh]. Barely an acquaintance, he insisted on playing for me, his latest composition. Let's just say he was no ... um ... Jackson Browne. I was at a loss for words and recall an extremely uncomfortable silence at the end of the song. AWKWARD =o/

http://lyrics.wikia.com/John_K._Samson:Longitudinal_Centre

This spring made winter an insulting opening offer down the passing lane
It's getting harder to negotiate, thawing out and icing up again
Past the Mint, where a circle of provincial flags are flagging in the front yard
I'm tired of trying to make us think that it hasn't always been so hard

The sky looks sea-sick on the boxcar sway
Where the Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away

So the sun pulls me out a bit and lets me go, I'm a vacuum power cord
In the back of that van full of kids, cleaning carpets for the Lord
And I make a little list of sounds I found have comforted us in the past
The roar of the rumble strips and the Mennonite meter of the flood forecast

Oh, how the wind strums on those signs that say
The Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away

Steer this boat around the slowplow spray
While the Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away

Not that it matters to me but just for the hell of it I looked up both songs and The Cranberries came out with the album "Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We" in 1993. Modest Mouse came out with there album with "Bankrupt on Selling" in 1997. >> ^JiggaJonson:

That sounds suspiciously similar to "Bankrupt on Selling"

Probably just a commonly used strum; tho, if not, it'd be Modest Mouse lifting it off of the Cranberries since Lonesome Crowded West came out 4 years after Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?



On a side note The Smashing Pumpkins song "Disarm" is very similar in chord structure to the Cranberries "Zombie".

That sounds suspiciously similar to "Bankrupt on Selling"



Probably just a commonly used strum; tho, if not, it'd be Modest Mouse lifting it off of the Cranberries since Lonesome Crowded West came out 4 years after Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

the one girl strums completely on the fretboard, with the guitar highly vertical, weird

>> ^raverman:
Of course you're welcome to like what ever you like. Liking something doesn't make it quality.
You can like Kesha but it doesn't make it in tune, or masterful music.
You can like Jackass because it makes you laugh but it doesnt make it cinematic excellence.
There are people who have dedicated their lives to mastering the techincal skills or creating quality music. And you don't have to like it... but it doesnt make their life and experience any less valuable.
You look like an idiot for boasting about a basic tertiary education and getting personal and pissy because people are criticizing music you like and is widely popular... but requires computer software to even make it sound in tune.


I am not "boasting" about my life. You are completely missing my point. I actually think my life is fairly mediocre. But the point is that I am a real person, and just because you don't like something doesn't make it any less valid to another human being.

I'm not saying that everybody should like it. I'm saying you are not the arbiter of what is art. It does not require talent, it does not require dedication. Of course these things help the artist express what they want to express, but any idiot off the street can weld two tin cans together and call it art, and you would have no right to say "This isn't art because he isn't talented and dedicated." Art requires only an idea and an effort to make it manifest.

You can say you don't like it. You can say you think it is frivolous. You can say that you don't relate to it on a personal level. You can say you think it is out of tune. But don't say "This isn't art." How arrogant. She could be strumming random chords and chanting nonsense syllables in atonal screeching and it would still be art if that was how she chose to express herself.

Excellence is an opinion. Good or bad is an opinion. Skilled or not is an opinion. Art is whatever the artist says is art. That's not up to you.

By the way, this is also 'Musical art': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS-VvIcfSuw