Excellent piece, Michael! And thanks for linking to my Spider playlist! I didn't know that Collective Soul song, which is kind of crazy knowing how big it was. I would say mid-90s is when I didn't listen to much current music for a couple years (was traveling and living on a farm). Great video though.
As a percussionist, who has played a bunch of West African music, I had to really flip my brain to adjust to rhythms that do not repeat or even start on the 1. I have always been a "feel" player, especially as I don't read music, and found myself re-adjusting the patterns to fit my ingrained sense of looping on the 1. A lot of the rhythms we played, the 1 was actually a ghost note or not played at all and so that was quite challenging. But when I got it, when I didn't simply change my idea of the 1 (which always bit me on the ass when we would have breaks or solos and had to all come back in together), it was euphoric.
Have you listened to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and their microtonal scaled albums?
When I started fingerpicking I learned several new patterns - one being the “calypso” or island pattern: 1 2 & & 4 & where there’s no “and” after the 1 beat and no 3 beat at all. It’s pretty famously heard in the intro to CCR’s “Up Around The Bend” - took me a bit but it’s pretty much my go-to now.
Have not heard (or don’t recall) King Gizzard, but I’ll give them a listen...
Thanks for all this as always! I always found Collective Soul interesting. They had a bunch of different hits in the 90s, and none of them really sounded the same. They didn't really have a recognizable sound, which I guess speaks to the fact that the cat could just write catchy songs!
Ed Roland, who wrote “The World I Know” is a Berklee grad - it always impresses me when Berklee grads get some recognition - I’ve known a couple and they really know their stuff, learned a lot from them
Excellent piece, Michael! And thanks for linking to my Spider playlist! I didn't know that Collective Soul song, which is kind of crazy knowing how big it was. I would say mid-90s is when I didn't listen to much current music for a couple years (was traveling and living on a farm). Great video though.
As a percussionist, who has played a bunch of West African music, I had to really flip my brain to adjust to rhythms that do not repeat or even start on the 1. I have always been a "feel" player, especially as I don't read music, and found myself re-adjusting the patterns to fit my ingrained sense of looping on the 1. A lot of the rhythms we played, the 1 was actually a ghost note or not played at all and so that was quite challenging. But when I got it, when I didn't simply change my idea of the 1 (which always bit me on the ass when we would have breaks or solos and had to all come back in together), it was euphoric.
Have you listened to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and their microtonal scaled albums?
When I started fingerpicking I learned several new patterns - one being the “calypso” or island pattern: 1 2 & & 4 & where there’s no “and” after the 1 beat and no 3 beat at all. It’s pretty famously heard in the intro to CCR’s “Up Around The Bend” - took me a bit but it’s pretty much my go-to now.
Have not heard (or don’t recall) King Gizzard, but I’ll give them a listen...
Thanks for all this as always! I always found Collective Soul interesting. They had a bunch of different hits in the 90s, and none of them really sounded the same. They didn't really have a recognizable sound, which I guess speaks to the fact that the cat could just write catchy songs!
Thank you, Peter!!
I found this really interesting:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Soul
Ed Roland, who wrote “The World I Know” is a Berklee grad - it always impresses me when Berklee grads get some recognition - I’ve known a couple and they really know their stuff, learned a lot from them
Thanks, Paul!!