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I mean this is sort of Zapruder film stuff but there’s no way he’s fretting 3xx030 because of common sense and kinesiology. It’s a fast transition and landing it off that run isn’t trivial, so why would he fret a D on the 2nd string with his index finger when the much easier grip is ring finger? It makes no sense from a guitar-playing standpoint. I think the only question is how many notes does he hit with the hybrid technique there, but I’m confident the answer is 4 notes because of how tight he brings the little finger in. I can definitely hear the bass G and the high E, and I’d guess the other two are A/B (3xx200) because splitting your picking fingers on hybrid that fast is almost impossible.
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Yeah, he plays the G, am I remembering the theory correctly, let’s say he only played the ABE triad for whatever reason, functionally you would still call that a G6/9 if that’s the role it’s meant to play? I think that’s a thing that you can have chords without the note of the chord in them.
Boy, Nirvana has not aged well. I’m a GenXer and even I’m like “meh” for most of their catalogue. It was cool in its time and place but none of you Millenials or GenZ kids need to bother listening.
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The Unplugged album is Nirvana’s finest work <–HOT FUKKING TAKE RIGHT HERE SON
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Yeah it can be implied, especially in jazz where the bass or piano picks up the root a lot. But you’re right, the function is the most important aspect. If he only played ABE I would be inclined to call it an Esus4 because V-I cadence is the bread and butter of 12-tone Western music. But in this case, he’s playing out of A blues / mixolydian which has a great bVII chord. When it rings out at the end of the bar, there’s enough space to imagine fitting a V chord before that chromatic rundown that resolves back into A.
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What is this, a new reason to be obsessed with ggoreo? (when you have a second check out my @ in the twitter banner thread)
Also, there’s no such thing as “near perfect pitch” but there are a lot of internet bros claiming to have exactly that. And they get really fuckin’ mad if you tell them that or that adults can’t develop it.
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Yeah I’ve noticed some on various videos, Rick Beato had a good take on it
Reason I didn’t like Esus4/G is because the V is played major throughout.
From the “What chord(s) are they playing?” files, I give you this organ player from outer space. This one should be a real challenge because I’m almost positive even he doesn’t know what the chords are. That look back at 0:40 omg.
Tristan chord is pretty dope. My theory teacher (classic trombonist) would get geeked up over the N⁶. He always made jokes about the easiest job in the world being a judge in a guitar sight reading competition. I found out years later he had picked up guitar and wasn’t telling that joke anymore.
4 years of theory, all As for grades, and as a percussionist I pretty much forgot it all. I analyzed pieces for 4 years lol. Fuck me. I really need to get back at it. I’m lost in modular synth world at the moment and it’s all I ever want to do hahaha. I have come up with some awesome patches that could be used or sound like synth music in movies though. Especially euro TV shows and movies I listen to. I can do do that crap for hours.
RE: Nirvana stuff.
They kinda of straight up jacked that riff from Killing Joke. Which isn’t really a slight against them. Most artists have borrowed. Dave Grohl went on to perform with KJ and Jaz Coleman said it was doing community service lol.
Killing Joke is also one of those really strange bands that came up during punk rock and hardcore days that only got better as they got older and not the usual reverse where punk rockers became the dinosaurs they bitched about with arena rock.
Jaz Coleman is probably the most interesting man to come from the punk scene.
https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/5624/Killing-Jokes-Jaz-Coleman-Found-In-Africa.utr
He at some point worked on Maori music preservation. Has done orchestras. He did music for Disney’s Mulan. Which is really weird.
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screename ‘electrical’
going from memory but 99.99% sure
hol up
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