How could anybody be THAT good at ANYTHING ??

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Joe Morello - famous mainly for being Dave Brubeck's drummer.
One of the very best - this dude was COOL while looking like a mild-mannered accountant.
I only found out recently he was nearly blind.



There are a number of other great clips of Joe, plus analysis by drumming experts, well worth watching if you are keen.
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IslandPink wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:26 pm ........this dude was COOL while looking like a mild-mannered accountant.
Agreed, awethumne steez and playing.
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Terry Bozzio , deftly handling one of the hardest drum pieces ever devised :



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SEAN De Burca. Guitarist Extraordinaire!

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He now plays a 7 string guitar - even more notes.
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majex45 wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 9:44 pm He now plays a 7 string guitar - even more notes.
<Sound FX> buzzer.... Sort of 'Over-ruled'! :lol:

Not as many 'new' notes as you'd think sometimes.It depends on the tuning.

For example using regular stacked 4th tuning intervals, a 5 string bass with a Low 'B' added below the usual EADG tuning found on a 4 string bass guitar only actually gives you 5 notes you wouldn't normally have on regular tuned 4 string bass guitar.
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12 notes at most I would say :-)
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Dave the bass wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 10:12 pm <Sound FX> buzzer.... Sort of 'Over-ruled'! :lol:

Not as many 'new' notes as you'd think sometimes.It depends on the tuning.

For example using regular stacked 4th tuning intervals, a 5 string bass with a Low 'B' added below the usual EADG tuning found on a 4 string bass guitar only actually gives you 5 notes you wouldn't normally have on regular tuned 4 string bass guitar.
Good point well made, Sir!
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Nick wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 11:12 pm 12 notes at most I would say :-)
I'm intrigued - please explain :)
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Here he is wit de 7 string.
It's very impressive - all he needs to do now is learn to write tunes with melodies that memorable you can't stop yerself whistling them, and he's sorted.
There's a distinct lack of melody atm ......

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The Stratmangler wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 11:55 pm
Nick wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 11:12 pm 12 notes at most I would say :-)
I'm intrigued - please explain :)
Ok, 11 then. That better? :-)

I did say at most.
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Nick wrote: Mon May 25, 2020 11:32 am
The Stratmangler wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 11:55 pm
Nick wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 11:12 pm 12 notes at most I would say :-)
I'm intrigued - please explain :)
Ok, 11 then. That better? :-)

I did say at most.
If you take it from the angle of a note on a heavier gauge string sounding slightly different to the same note on a lighter gauge string, then you have 15 slightly different sounding notes of the same pitch as can be found elsewhere on the neck, and 5 new ones gained from the lower tuning, assuming that the low string is tuned a 4th from the bottom E.

That's working off the acoustic guitar generally having 20 frets.
So Dtb is right with the new notes, and then there are 15 notes already existing elsewhere but of different timbre.
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If you take it from the angle of a note on a heavier gauge string sounding slightly different to the same note on a lighter gauge string, then you have 15 slightly different sounding notes of the same pitch as can be found elsewhere on the neck
But I didn't, so 11 notes. Not different sounding notes, just notes.
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you chaps are making me unsure of what day it is...

are you taking about a 5 string bass with a bottom B string added to a 4 string EADG bass

or

are you talking about a 7 string guitar with indeterminate tuning?????

btw: my 4 string EADG Fender Jazz has a million more notes than DTB's( some of the notes don't even have names)
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Nick wrote: Mon May 25, 2020 1:45 pm
If you take it from the angle of a note on a heavier gauge string sounding slightly different to the same note on a lighter gauge string, then you have 15 slightly different sounding notes of the same pitch as can be found elsewhere on the neck
But I didn't, so 11 notes. Not different sounding notes, just notes.
Ok, so working on Dtb's premise of tuning in 4ths (ie a low B string), there are no new notes past the 4th fret - 5th fret is low E, and you have an open E string at the same pitch following as you head to your toes, so there are 5 new notes.

The low string brings B, C, C#, D and D# into the mix, but beyond that the notes the low string will cover occurred in several places before the introduction of that low string.
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ed wrote: Mon May 25, 2020 2:17 pm you chaps are making me unsure of what day it is...

are you taking about a 5 string bass with a bottom B string added to a 4 string EADG bass

or

are you talking about a 7 string guitar with indeterminate tuning?????
The answer's the same for the 5 string bass and the 7 string guitar.
You need to have some system for organising the tuning, and 4ths is as good a system as any other (and yes I know the B string being a 3rd above the G string is anomalous).
ed wrote: Mon May 25, 2020 2:17 pmbtw: my 4 string EADG Fender Jazz has a million more notes than DTB's( some of the notes don't even have names)
I have a name for them - they're the wrong notes :lol:
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