Acousticrock87 - yeah, that extra beat in the bar got me too, which I why I came up with 5/8 in the end...

i'm just going to go borrow my friend's bass drum
the only reason i asked for the time signature was because i was trying to use stupid garageband shit

i don't think it's in 5/8 really, i'm just talking about the drum, not the little tambourine bit which is not synchronised with the drum.

Actually I started it from the beginning, and I don't think there is an extra beat. The tambourine just fucks around randomly in a few parts. It stays steady through the whole thing, I think. 2/4

^^^Hope yer recording of bass drum stuff goes OK.

the bass and guitar are not the same part
nor are the drum and the tambourine

it will, i'm perfectly fine if i have a real instrument but if i actually have to put together a loop on the computer that's when it gets difficult.

It definitely works in 4/4, but it has a weird feel to it. I'm not sure what it is exactly. I think every instrument is syncopated a little differently. Or it's because Lou's vocals drag way behind the beat. Kinda Billie Holiday-ish.

said friend is on the way over with said bass drum. even though it's 6.30 AM.

Cantanky prepares to bang the drum for ROCK!

Depending on how good your mic is, you can sometimes pull off a bass drum sound by stomping or hitting something near the mic. You just gotta mess around with it a little.

But if you're friend will serve you a drum, that's definitely a better choice.

she bangs the druuuuuuuuummsssssss

Oh fuck a huge brown recluse spider crawled right across my lap

I mean it was like 2inx2in. It was HUGE.

I hate spiders. Now I won't be able to sleep ever again.

I just realised you're a girl!

I just realized I'm a girl too!

It's been a while since we had a "....is a girl/boy" thread.

i'm an it.


if i hear another metronome ever again in my life i'm going to shoot myself in the face.

I left the CD going in the background, and forgot how fucking awesome the end of Heroin is. Fucking Cale...

"holy shit that's a lot of fuckin cum, DUDE!" - recent jenna haze quote

That's exactly why I don't listen to it.

She has such an annoying voice.

the only song she sings on that album that i like is all tomorrow's parties. it's not her voice, i just don't like femme fatale or i'll be your mirror very much.

They would all be fine if it just wasn't her singing. I love the guitar on Femme, but her voice...For fuck's sake. I think those three songs would just sound like stuff from the self-titled one if Lou sang them.

I like her singing on "Sunday Morning", in spite of the cod-Bob Dylanisms that she tries to attempt.

Pookie - someone from beyond the grave wants a word with you:



"Oh Pookie, vhy do you zey zuch cruueel zings to meee?"

Me and acousticrock87 bonding over mutual hate of Nico's voice. It's a moment in time we'll never recapture so let's savour it.

I think all the tracks are great, but her voice...For fuck's sake.

I don't think she sings on Sunday Morning.

Tell her to go back to voice hell where she belongs.

femme fatale sounds like fucking elevator music.

"Vhy is Sir Pookie so and cruel to meee?
By ze black sea, ice floes in my heaaaaaaarrt."
*Does minimalist harmonium fiddling*

I was about to defend it, but actually it does sound like elevator music...

Still, I like it.

I'll check my vinyl copy of the 1st LP laster on tonght to check...

or like "please hold" music

I'm a sucker for anything with major 7th chords. I can't help it.

Hahaha.

Personally, if it has a D chord anywhere in it, it's my favorite song ever.

i like flat chords

Woah. So like, every song?

The day I found out that you could replace all major/minor chords in a progression with maj7/min7 chords and make it sound like jazz was probably the happiest day of my life. (Slightly exaggerated.)

Flatted 13ths are also incredible. And whatever these are:

4
3
4
3
x
x

That be a diminished chord, sir.

I thought so, but didn't feel like looking. They sound great after a long pause.

i don't know what any of you are talking about.

i like things like these, which could be flats or sharps depending on how you want to look at it.

-
-
6
6
4
-

C-sharp/D-flat - the first chord in the descending riff on the Stooges' "Search And Destroy".

0
4
2
1
0
x

Best chord ever. From the Diablo town theme. It's gotta be stummed upwards, to. I don't know why.

yes.
flat chords arranged with regular chords can be interesting and really dark sounding sometimes.