Since most of you have never heard a rythm guitar, and all of you have never heard a rythm solo...
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Do not waste your time posting....There is a very simple reason
for this, you will .... ALWAYS FAIL !!!!
sidebar: you're the only one that hasn't heard of one before !!!!
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for this, you will .... ALWAYS FAIL !!!!
sidebar: you're the only one that hasn't heard of one before !!!!
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I was just about to give you props on not posting this shit. I'm glad I didn't
You know we don't hit play on your shit anymore right? Your schtick is played out around here.
I do not care what you think
Not bad. I see what you mean. The rhythm guitar is good...but I have heard rhythm guitars that are just as good before. In music in the States, it seems that the rhythm guitar is not featured like it is in this video (but don't get it twisted - it still is an important part of the band).
The rythm guitar is the backbone of the African song. In this style, it is muted
so that the musicians can hear in the monitors, but the audience barely can.
It thus forms the reference point for all their inflections. This allows a
tremendous range for everything else in the music.. the bass, the drums,
the solo guitars, the singing the dancing... As long as anything done is
subordinate to the rythm, the integrity of the song is retained. What
is unique about this musician is that he uses an arcane stringing and
tunining of the guitar called mi-compose that some old time rythm
guitars from Congo invented and used.
In mi-compose, the D string is replaced with a single strand G or E
string, and tuned to a higher note; So now in the middle of the guitar
you have a high solo string....The opens a world of possibilities.
Just listen to how high the sound from his thumb is
string, and tuned to a higher note; So now in the middle of the guitar
you have a high solo string....The opens a world of possibilities.
Just listen to how high the sound from his thumb is
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Does ashiness effect hearing?
You should go away if your desire is to promote hatred and negativity
Here, it's seems as if he's playing lead guitar as opposed to rhythm guitar here. Could you please explain the difference here? I'm really trying to see it. Thanks. This is pretty cool.
Sorry I have been busy...
Basically the rythm guitar is the backbone of the song, and
it defines the rythm. More importantly, instead of a metronome
it serves as the dynamic time keeper. On the rythm that it defines,
various melodies are layered by the other instruments, primarily
the solo guitars. But in fact the flexibility of this arrangement is
it frees all instruments and other musicians to range without
compromising the integrity of the song....For this reason, most
songs are composed to a melody of the rythm guitar.
Now what Zairian/Congolese musician then did was to practically
mute the rythm guitar to the listening audience, but not to themselves
since they were absolutely subordinate to it. They had to hear
it in their monitors in order keep within the song structure..
Vata Mombasa, a legendary rythm guitarist, composed this song
back in the 70s, and I suspect that he did it outside the auspices
of the band (Lipua Lipua), given the rather low quality of the
of the studio work. But in it, he gave a prominence to the rythm
guitar such that you can hear it throughout the song. You can
also hear how the solo guitar comes and goes, but always in
subordination to the rythm. Of course at the end, Vata gave
himself a rythm solo
This same song was reprised by the Soukous crowd in Paris
more than 10 years later, and look how they redid it. Nowhere
in it do you hear that ubiquitous rythm, as it was muted to us,
but not to the musicians. In this song, the soloist "8 Kilos (Huit Kilos)"
Bimwela Nseka sizzles with his dazzling solo riffs....Ironically
Lokassa ya Mbongo was the session rythm guitarist holding
together the song..You go figure..
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This way of thinking is actually an incorporation of the way in
which African have always played music...In an ensmble of
drums, there was always a rythm instrument that held together
the song, and hence the others could range and subdefine
their own melodies
which African have always played music...In an ensmble of
drums, there was always a rythm instrument that held together
the song, and hence the others could range and subdefine
their own melodies
More of an arpeggio, or broken chord style. Pretty easy to play if you're a decent guitar player. Wonder what the tuning is
You said it was easy, therefore you should have it figured out.
Who is going to answer you when you are so condesceding?
And if it is so easy, where is the evidence of you exhibiting
the ease?
You never even knew what a rythm guitar was until I told
you
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Great music.
Op is HALO who is a cracka.