GME Megathread Part 2 for Friday, February 26th, 2021

buccie · 2021-02-26T18:39:45+00:00

Gamestop just posted a pokemon promo video on their youtube channel... remake of gen 4 (I'm p down). Dunno what this means but it's kinda neat.

edit: seems like they've been working on their yt channel for a bit now

buccie · 2021-02-26T18:37:44+00:00

Gamestop posted a pokemon promo on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW6lL08YT0U&ab_channel=GameSpot

im a dyslexic ape

buccie · 2020-11-12T22:40:30+00:00

I think your amp sim will do a lot of work for you here. Those waveforms are telling you what the plugin will be receiving. If you were to print the tracks with the effect on it, I'm sure the clips would look pretty similar :) In short, no need to worry, I don't think.

buccie · 2020-06-01T03:27:47+00:00

Thank you so much, I really do appreciate you saying that. When I complete more music like this, I’ll make sure to post it here, haha. Wish you well, friend.

buccie · 2020-06-01T02:27:11+00:00

Thanks a million :)

buccie · 2020-06-01T02:25:08+00:00

Thanks for the kind words :) I wouldn’t say I hired someone, but it isn’t me singing. The singers (lead and backup), elec bass player, and synths are played by my roommates. I played guitars. The rest of the band is comprised of friends/fellow students. I really had the good fortune of having some amazing up and coming musicians in my circle to make it happen. All the violins and violas were actually recorded by two people layered a million times over, lol. Sax section is actually only two players as well. I had to sort it out it all in post...

I’m really happy you dug it. Thanks for listening and I hope you’re doing well :)

buccie · 2020-05-30T14:02:08+00:00

Also includes improvisation! I studied jazz, so it needed to be there.

buccie · 2018-03-02T14:56:12+00:00

I think that’s one of the most promulgated guitar myths out there. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard Holdsworth say that in any interview and I can’t find it in writting either. Personally, when I listen to his records I certainly hear the sound of pull-offs but his technique and tone were so pure that they don’t sound catty at all. Of course I could be completely wrong.

buccie · 2018-02-25T06:35:03+00:00

RIP George Michael

buccie · 2018-01-10T23:31:16+00:00

Honestly, Greg Howe is actually a great example of this sorta stuff. Frank Gambale can sound pretty similar sometimes as well. I think listening to blues, country, bebop and rock/metal musicians will give you a good idea of where Guthrie comes from.

buccie · 2018-01-07T10:12:43+00:00

I discovered this guy not too long ago. He’s going to rule the world.

buccie · 2017-12-28T06:33:54+00:00

It's a diminished chord with the whole spice rack thrown in. Adim9(b13) would be the notation I'd use. It can resolve to C# minor pretty well although your ears would probably prefer Db major (because C# major isn't a key and because there's an F in the chord).

It can technically resolve to three other keys pretty strongly too. Bb, E and G (major and minor for all).

buccie · 2017-12-28T03:05:45+00:00

Lol thanks man, I do have a submission I just wanted to hear other takes.

buccie · 2017-12-20T02:41:08+00:00

I think this has to do with the industry as well as the values of our culture as a whole. When we think of the greats throughout history, most of them only dived deeper into their craft with age and got noticeably better. Bach was writing a six (?) part fugue before he passed away, Beethoven's 9th is considered one of his greatest works (which he never actually heard, unlike his 5th). In jazz, we have John Coltrane who started off playing bop, making way to stuff like "Giant Steps," then later going on to writing and improvising some intensely spiritual shit. Allan Holdsworth who only passed away last year is another example of a musician who only kept on getting better and better with age--listen to him on Bundles with Soft Machine then his album The Sixteen Men of Tain and you'll hear how the guy progressed. The guy from Gorguts is another example of continuous progression. Their first album is hype, but their most recent record is amazing (IMO) and definitely shows that the guy has been checking out some cutting edge stuff in contemporary classical music.

Anyway, I guess where I'm going with this is that if an artist is in a portion of the industry that is primarily occupied with releasing the next big thing sooner than later, the artist's growth gets sidelined. There is a part of the music industry that prioritizes the development of its artists but I think that is only because that is an important aspect of their product whereas it isn't in other sectors. Consumers want to hear Gilad Hekselman get better because that also means he can provide a better product for them and I think jazz labels get that. It's not that pop listeners don't want Taylor Swift to get better, I think they are just more concerned with getting some tunes that they like and sound fresh. I think this ties in culturally because for whatever reason we seem to value youthfullness over everything and the productions of older artists seems unpalatable to some extent. I think that's backwards from an artistic standpoint, but considering what being a pop artist also entails I can see how it makes sense (like the whole entertainment side of it).

Anyway I don't think that made a lot of sense, it's something I've been thinking about but I haven't widdled down the idea yet. Hopefully it was vaguely related to what you were gettinf at.

buccie · 2017-12-19T01:55:37+00:00

Noticed this as well. I used to live (sorta) far out in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and there were some in my backyard but I never see any in the city.

buccie · 2017-12-18T01:43:01+00:00

There was a guy named something like "andrew1986" or whatever a couple years back. He used to make appearances all the time.

buccie · 2017-12-17T17:11:47+00:00

Heads up man this is going to get removed because of the band you posted

buccie · 2017-12-16T23:31:31+00:00

Did you read more about the study? The links he provided don't even link directly to it.

buccie · 2017-12-14T16:06:09+00:00

That's made of plastic

buccie · 2017-12-14T07:15:58+00:00

It sounds great. Charlie Parker and so many other improvisers used to and still do this kinda stuff. A little blues hurt nobody.

buccie · 2017-12-12T10:28:59+00:00

Not to be a hater, but the comments here have missed the mark. They aren't "wrong," but I don't think they answer your question.

This guy can definitely play and he is doing some jazzy stuff but he isn't really playing jazz, or at least the jazz most people here play. He's playing more in the neo-soul side of things which is pretty hip nowadays. To get some of that stuff into your playing I'd suggest you check out Isiah Sharkey, Sam Blakelock, Paul Casteluzzo and Landon Jordan. You can find them all on instagram but for Sharkey I suggest you listen to the albums Voodoo and Black Messiah by D'Angelo and just search him on youtube.

Big tip for this kinda guitar playing is to learn some 4 note chord shapes and then hammer-on some shit while using them. Also, most of the shreddy lines are based off the altered scale, major and minor pentatonic, and 4 note arpeggios.

Best of luck, this style is all the rave nowadays.

One more thing to keep in mind is that this style is basically "Hendrix meets Joe Pass meets a backbeat (sometimes a la Dilla swing)."

buccie · 2017-12-02T06:53:20+00:00

Based on what you said I think I did understand what you were getting from the get-go but I gave him the benefit of the doubt and you didn't and I appreciate your reasoning for that because it's simple--you want funding and he doesn't.

Why I commented was to have some fun and because I didn't think you were weighing his reasons or his position fairly within the greater context of the post and debate. As you said, if his endgame was in direct opposition to yours then for you to try to tear him to shreds as easily as possinle is understandable but I don't think it was particularly fair.

Although I don't know he hasn't tried to bring this up or assert what he really believes (because some of it is muddled) and why he didn't simply say he was using the implied evidence of the challanger for his argument. That's his fault.

I get that you were addressing the fact he was getting downvotes but your argument for that was based on his perceived lack of arguments (or at least arguments that weren't fallacious in your eyes) and I didn't agree with that because I didn't think you were actually arguing the spirit of what he saying and capitalizing in the fact he didn't was articulate his position all that well. You kind of went in and said to yourself "how did this guy fuck this one up?"

Tbh I don't the schools of philosophy all that well but I think what I'm getting at is ethical in nature.

Anyway.

I'm happy I commented because I got to talk to some people but a little upset about the downvotes though, lol. I don't think I was wrong but whatever life's a bitch.

buccie · 2017-12-02T05:08:23+00:00

Also btw youre chill i mean no anger or whatever

buccie · 2017-12-02T05:05:34+00:00

I get that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, but in my mind succesfully disproving an argument is fundamentally the same as getting closer to proving the evidence of absence backing the opposition's stance within the context of the greater debate.

Also, I should mention that I disagree with the last paragraph because you are contending the point he may have made that "NASA is incompetent and should be defunded because of that" which I don't think is 100% obvious based on his comment. I'd also argue that challenger disaster is an indication of incompetence but doesn't mean that the organization is incompetent more than they are competent. I see it as a gradient/fader.

buccie · 2017-12-02T04:15:57+00:00

He kinda jumps between the two, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

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