Mike Overly's 12 Tone Music News

Music, Guitar and Bass News from around the World Wide Web . . .
April 20, 2016
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Mathematic and musical detectives have discovered that perhaps thereason Beethoven's tempo is so strange is because
his metronome was broken!

When great musicians play the classics, they often like to recreate the exact feel of a piece of music.

But when playing Beethoven, many musicians completely disregard the tempo markings on his original sheet music. Sixty-six out of 135 of them have been regarded as "absurdly fast and thus possibly wrong."

 The premise of this work is to figure out the possible mathematical explanations for his curious tempo markings.

Here's the story they tell...
 

 
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As you explore new shapes and sounds on the guitar, do you ever wonder exactly how many chords are possible in standard tuning? Or even how many chords there are in the spectrum of the musical universe? For the purposes of this lesson, we'll only talk about chords with at least three different notes. As it turns out, this question can easily be answered with a math equation. I'm horrible at math, but I have a couple of friends who are math whizzes ~ see if you agree with them . . .  
IN THE BASSMENT
Conventional wisdom says that even if you're just moderately accomplished on guitar, you can still pass on bass. But in reality it's not hard to spot a bass player who's really a guitar player in disguise. That got me to thinking: what is it about a guitar-playing bass player that's different from a "pure" bass player. Surely, our musical DNA is ninety-nine percent identical. So what exactly is that other one percent? And how can a guitar player play bass like a "real" bass player?

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Pick up two guitars that are otherwise identically constructed-same neck profile, fretboard radius, pickups and hardware, same type and gauge of strings even-but which are made to a 24.75" and 25.5" scale length respectively, and you are likely to find yourself playing a little differently on each. That mere three-quarters of an inch makes a surprising difference not only in the...  
GREAT GEAR
This reverb pedal has a simple three-knob setup and compact profile while retaining high headroom and flexibility. It is designed to reproduce the sound of high end rack units and plug-ins in a pedal format. To achieve this, they utilized Constant Headroom Technology, which allows 20 volts of headroom. The pedal has six classic reveb types like Spring, Plate and Room, along with three other types that include Mod, Pad and Epic.  
ARTIST AWARENESS
 
Bassist Anthony Jackson stands as one of the masters of the electric bass. The ubiquitous sideman's exhaustive discography spans many genres' of music. His tenacious research into the origins of the bass led to the invention of the six-string contrabass, a couple of decades before five-string basses became popular. He is an in-demand musician and has worked with many, including: Roberta Flack, Buddy Rich, Michal Urbaniak, Al DiMeola, Chick Corea, Leon Pendarvis, Paul Simon, Chaka Khan and Steely Dan.



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