It's sound advice mate. They were ****ing awful, the sort of **** that made you want to steer your car into oncoming traffic when it came on the radio.
The song has some very melodic arpeggios that work well as technical exercises. It's taken me about an hour to learn the entire song, including solo, and the band will have this gig-ready inside two rehearsals. We don't have any real soft rock songs in the set, so this is an easy and fast one to learn. As with all of our material, we'll gig it a few times, and if we find that it's not going down well, or we get bored with playing it, we'll drop it and move on to the next one. We're learning this along side Toto's "Hold The Line," which is one that we did a few years back.
You don't like it. That's your choice. There are countless thousands who do like it. Me, I've enjoyed learning it, and I think it's worth while giving it an airing in our live set.
Fair point. I count myself lucky that I'm not ageing rocker who's into ****e rock ballads. But I can see why you'd like it.
Firstly, it isn't "****e." You don't like it. That's your prerogative. Secondly, I'm "into" a lot of different kinds of music. I am neither so shallow, nor so arrogant to cut myself from any music. There is generally some merit in everything I learn, that makes the exercise worth while.
So you wouldn't 'cut' yourself from Bucks Fizz, Cilla Black or The Spice Girls ? Fair enough, you're into ****e soft rock power ballads. Might as well go and grow yourself a mullet to go with the nonce beard mate.
There's a lot to be learned about harmony and chord voicings from learning some of those pop songs, that can be applied to every instrument and to every type of music. As I have already said, I'm into a lot of different kinds of music. We've been gigging "Mr Crowley" by Ozzie Osbourne, which is quite technical for the guitarist, as you would expect from someone of Randy Rhodes' talents. We're currently learning a load more Pink Floyd, most of which has some interest time signature changes, and we're learning other classic rock tunes. As well as all of that, I study all kinds of other stuff that I'll never play with the band, some of it incredibly technical and some of it technically simple but extremely melodic.
You play in a band that gigs in pubs and blue waffle clubs ffs. You are NOT a ****ing god. You are a fat sweaty sex case giving it the big one. That's how Gary Glitter started.
There really isn't mate. Those harmonies on pop songs are well rinsed formulas that have been done to death. You say you're into lots of different kinds of music, but the music you mention is all based within western 4/4 timings, same scales and chord structures and the same verse/chorus song structure. Whether it's pop, rock, metal etc. It all has the same underpinnings If you really want to stretch your musical understanding. Listen to and study the music of Berber Gnawa, Balkan folk, African polyrhythms, Ethiopian Jazz, The timbale structures of Tito Puente. There is so much more out there.
