lol at the djent stick.
My friend showed me this djent song that 'confused' him because the beat was too complex. It was in 4/4. He got offended when I said it wasn't really technical at all. The fact that he is a very good drummer proves to me in part that people play this sort of music up to be more than it is, almost pretending to like it in many cases.
(01-11-2014, 09:42 AM)carlcockatoo Wrote: [ -> ]lol at the djent stick.
My friend showed me this djent song that 'confused' him because the beat was too complex. It was in 4/4. He got offended when I said it wasn't really technical at all. The fact that he is a very good drummer proves to me in part that people play this sort of music up to be more than it is, almost pretending to like it in many cases.
Yea, everyone says that about Periphery but most of their songs are in 4/4
I still like Periphery but they aren't super complex or anything. I like their energy.
The only bands I listen to that I would even sometimes call complex would maybe be Dillinger Escape Plan and some This Town Needs Guns. But that's because they're good, imo.
The band's song that he plays on the "djentstick" is a perfect example of simplicity but genius. I downloaded that album after watching that vid and its awesome. Great bangers. You don't always have to be super technical to be good imo.
With Periphery the technicality isn't always in the timing but the rhythm of the song. I know they like to switch time signatures in a song, sometimes but mostly coming back to that simple timing. It makes it easier to follow the base rhythm which I like. Some of the true "technical" guys I sometimes loose, which reduces their "listenability" quite dramatically for me.
(01-11-2014, 03:10 PM)WCPhils Wrote: [ -> ]Yea, everyone says that about Periphery but most of their songs are in 4/4
I still like Periphery but they aren't super complex or anything. I like their energy.
Their riffs on Periphery II are more complex than their debut. But even so, it's not like they mess with timing a ton. Hell, even bands in the '70s Prog Rock movement, like Yes (listen to the album "Fragile", as an example), didn't mess a ton with time signatures besides 4/4. They just did interesting things within 4/4. But the drum beats are straight 4/4, for the most part. Or, a lot of them would switch time signatures briefly and then go back to 4/4.
After a freak thunderstorm, I was without Internet and TV all day.
Great times.
You remembered that you had an old chemistry set you never used?
You mean that science experiment I have in the other freezer in the garage?
I thought we agreed never to mention that again.