What is "good" music?

[lionking]

I think it is when it brings out or sparks emotion,whether it's happy,sad,anger,thought,dancing...whatever.

I know that's what I feel when I play it,I'm sure you do to.The energy you feel from playing is based on emotion also,specially doing a lead solo,nothing like holding a screaming sustained bend to get your gut fired up!

Or a nice arpeggio chording to loose yourself in.

[Some Bozo]

but do you play with both hands now or is one on that old rewind button still?

i haven't played consistently. over time i had a few years off, and my playing has suffered a bit. but recently i upgraded all my stuff and i'm really giving it a thrashing (my guitar that is ). i just need to get used to my new guitar a bit more. the strap button position has made a enormous difference. it's much more comfortable to play now.

BTW, i don't need a rewind button now. with cubase i can just loop bits. over and over and.....

Speaking of straps, I'm currently doing the hard yards with a metronome trying to get up to speed with the riff from Judas Priest's Painkiller ( fast eigth note downstrokes on the E and A strings ) and I noticed that when I play sitting down I can play it cleanly at about 10 bpm faster than I can standing up. The only difference I can think of is the guitar's a bit higher up than in the low-slung standing position. I could just raise the strap but then I'd look like the dude from Arctic Monkeys. Prob just gotta sweat a bit more to be able to play it without looking like a tool, LOL

[Bg]

yep even at my age I'd rather sling it lower than look like a tool...

[KurtiZ]

Ahh the good old music taste thread.

I only just realised today what I think is good music. I love Dream Theater and a band i just got into, Protest the Hero. I figured out that I like these bands because they change time signatures alot, well I know DT does, I havnt really listened hard or much to Protest the hero but I like their on and off style of guitaring, different from most other bands with just a continuious beat.

I realised that I really dont like songs that dont change, same beat or beats the whole way thru really does get boring after 3 minutes or more.


So yeah I think good music is music that changes alot I spose, probably obvious really.

[jimi]

So yeah I think good music is music that changes alot I spose, probably obvious really.

at the other end of the scale I've been listening to a bit of old funk lately, sly and the family, earth wind and fire. A few song there which get into a groove over a single vamp and stay there for 3mins or more.

Not good music by your definition, but good music to me.

This is a stupid topic btw.

[Rog]

This is a stupid topic btw.

So, RCP, you're basically directly insulting everyone here???

Stupidity is the quality or condition of lacking intelligence, as opposed to being merely ignorant or uneducated. This quality can be attributed to both an individual or a person's actions, words or beliefs, or those of a group.

As an English word, it implies that the attributed party is not mentally retarded but rather is willfully ignorant and/or unintelligent, and displays poor use of judgement or insensitivity to nuances

[naphazoline]

Speaking of straps, I'm currently doing the hard yards with a metronome trying to get up to speed with the riff from Judas Priest's Painkiller ( fast eigth note downstrokes on the E and A strings ) and I noticed that when I play sitting down I can play it cleanly at about 10 bpm faster than I can standing up. The only difference I can think of is the guitar's a bit higher up than in the low-slung standing position. I could just raise the strap but then I'd look like the dude from Arctic Monkeys. Prob just gotta sweat a bit more to be able to play it without looking like a tool, LOL

obviously it's better where ever you feel most comfortable and relaxed.

but personally i don't like playing sitting down, and i wouldn't advise anyone to practise like that if they're going to play in a metal band.

[Phildo]

What is "good" music?

Foo Fighters. Especially if you were locked on a desert Island or stuck down a mine shaft or possibly going on an interstellar trip (non cryogenic of course) for 1 year.

[Timi]

What is "good" music?

Foo Fighters.

Agreed, but I'm not sure about the last two albums.
The first album is by far my favourite, followed by One by One.

[thehenderson]

new foo fighters stuff sounds a bit watery to me, sounds kinda hammed up

[DarcyPerry]

Good music... is anything I'm feeling as I play it.

[sgt mukuzi]

begining middle and end

its hard with a loop

[foal30]

i see the Foo Fighters video was funny
despite him crying 5 times I think I laughed each time

it also brought back memories of the Young Doctors

Sgt, can you meet me at Bunnies?

[foal30]

I sometimes take the drummers part and loop a section for improvisational fun, or more often bass twaddle.

still, once it worked great, the trombonist lit a fire under my ass, I was listening to it the other day, it sounds "live"

particularly on a unicycle whilst towing 1 and 3 quarter ton of pig-iron.