Corny jigs

HorseloverFat said:
I tried a "creative thinking" exercise, today...

I tried, shortly after waking up, to electronically compose a tiny, rhythm section piece of music to describe "How I feel about today."

It's of poorer quality, seeing as it is simply a video taken from my phone, off of computer speakers...

But you get the idea.

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I kept waiting for the breakdown.
 
Not sure if it counts as corny, but relative to a previous conversation.
Is it just me, or is there a very telling indigenous American influence here?
 
ShadyStump said:
Not sure if it counts as corny, but relative to a previous conversation.
Is it just me, or is there a very telling indigenous American influence here?
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I like that .. it DOES seem, though, more like THIS.. inspired/esque.. ;)
The "soundin' like a rattlesnake on the snare beat" is like tying a maraca to your boot... Very western... Cowboys AND indians..
 
AAAAND separately.. this movement has been stuck in my head for roughly a week's time...

I'd like to think my soul sounds like this...

 
HorseloverFat said:
AAAAND separately.. this movement has been stuck in my head for roughly a week's time...

I'd like to think my soul sounds like this...

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🤩Mui bueno!
It's one in a million guitarists that can accomplish classic Spanish pieces like these any more.
What Italy did for the visual arts during The Renaissance, and baroque Austria did for the orchestra, Spain did for the guitar.🇪🇸
 
In the vein of our earlier conversation about the origins of REAL."Merica" music...

We were speaking of the delta/southern plantation blues..

What doesn't get enough attention is the mus ic that was, at the same time coming from western plantations..

Brighter.. more rag-time -esque.

🤓
 
Also.. these mixed in with southern GOSPEL and influenced music substantially throughout the ages.

Meeting up, black AND white in Doo-wop, and swing-jazz

The influence is still present many places.

 
"Pop music" taking roots in traditional music is interesting. Some jigs are more spectacular than others, but they're all worth of interest.

It must have been posted earlier in this thread, but I particularly like this one (Who? - The Hu. - Oh, the who? - No, the Hu!) :


Since I particularly like the musicality of the Portuguese language, I'm a fan of Brasilian music, but Fado, the traditional songs of Portugal can re-invent itself, not only by using electric instruments.
The "vibrato" (I'm not even sure I can call it in French" is something very sensual... I think :cool:


Talking about Rumania, I went there for professional reasons and in the hotel (totally derelict) there was a band that one night played this kind of music. We then finished the night with local champagne (not bad at all) and the local spirit, I can't remember the name. A Spanish colleague danced on the table !
I had an awful headache the next morning, I was glad I wasn't sick on the plane...

 
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Oh god!

Real embarrassed that I know about this group. DS, consisting of Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy.. three raunchy, comedian-hip-hoppers/actors... Founders of the hilarious "Rap is a joke" movement...

Reeeeal stupid stuff... But this group and it's "offshoots" are a really big deal with the drinking crowd around here... No idea why. "Drunken Corny" - I'm going with.


(Just in case you need this.. THIS SONG IS NOT APPROPRIATE IN ANY WAY! ((a SLIGHTLY less INappropriate, and "better quality" one to follow)))


....

Then Simon Rex (Dirt Nasty) had a group with Riff Raff and Andy Milonakis called "3 Loco"..

(3 Loco is much more "fun" I should've posted THIS song first)

 
My sister dragged me into the local high end western wear shop today because she was really excited about a plaid shirt she insisted on getting me.
Anyways, this was playing while we were there, and instantly became my favorite version of the song.
I was most familiar with the Tom Waits version, but it never quite evoked sentiment in me like this one does.
 
ShadyStump said:
I imagine this video isn't the best example of what it's capable of.
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Maybe.
An ancient instrument is quite similar, the theorbo. Here is a piece by French composer François Couperin (1668-1733).
The title of the video on Youtube contains a few spelling mistakes (Les Barricades Mystérieuses), Francisco Lopez forgiven :cool:


BTW, the term "barricade" comes from the French "barrique", barrels, that were used to block a street along with carts, etc. - mid 16th century.
 
AlainK said:
Maybe.
An ancient instrument is quite similar, the theorbo. Here is a piece by French composer François Couperin (1668-1733).
The title of the video on Youtube contains a few spelling mistakes (Les Barricades Mystérieuses), Francisco Lopez forgiven :cool:


BTW, the term "barricade" comes from the French "barrique", barrels, that were used to block a street along with carts, etc. - mid 16th century.
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I like that. The tune has a dreamy quality to it, and the instrument's ability to achieve such deep reverberations on its own, with such range, plays right into my personal aesthetic.

Somewhere there is a Jimmy Hendrix of the theorbo, and I must find them.
 
I've recently gotten back into skateboarding with the boys (I used to have an amateur shop sponsorship and all that), and I heard this song on a Baker skate video...

I had completely forgotten about it...

Definitely "American Street Corny"..

 
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