How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[Leonard Smalls]

We had a Weeds rehearsal yesterday... We haven't played together as a full band for about 9 years, though we did recently make a 5 track ep via the internet... Which actually got us a gig, so we had to rapidly and remotely write 5 more songs (we're spread across Europe, from the west of Ireland to the south of France).

So we played 'em together for the first time. And surprisingly, it actually sounds pretty good! We're continuing today so we'll be a bit more polished though 2 full days of rehearsals takes it out on my fingers...

Then tomorrow we bimble up to Chester - hopefully we'll get another gig sorted in less than 9 years!

[Stub Mandrel]

At last night's rehearsal we thrashed three songs over three hours to hone their structures.

 

I was charged with finding a satisfying end to one song and after much trial and error found that adding a descending arpeggio of a four note G-augmented chord was an awesome way to take my finishing run down to the final E.

 

I've never found a 'musical' application for one before but it sounded absolutely perfect. We'd tried loads of ideas but going up to the G then down sounded perfect.

 

No punter will ever appreciate six people spending fifteen minutes to get to that!

[kwmlondon]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

At last night's rehearsal we thrashed three songs over three hours to hone their structures.

 

I was charged with finding a satisfying end to one song and after much trial and error found that adding a descending arpeggio of a four note G-augmented chord was an awesome way to take my finishing run down to the final E.

 

I've never found a 'musical' application for one before but it sounded absolutely perfect. We'd tried loads of ideas but going up to the G then down sounded perfect.

 

No punter will ever appreciate six people spending fifteen minutes to get to that!

Sounds very interesting. I’m still a bit of a beginner with chord tones so what were the notes in that arpeggio pls? I’m sure I know the sound but can’t get it from the description. Cheers!

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, kwmlondon said:

Sounds very interesting. I’m still a bit of a beginner with chord tones so what were the notes in that arpeggio pls? I’m sure I know the sound but can’t get it from the description. Cheers!

 

Start on the g string, any note, come down one fret lower on each string so you're back on the first note an octave down on the E string. The intervals are all major thirds so any of the notes can be the notional root.

 

G, Eb, B, G  perhaps surprisingly, resolves nicely to E. The song in question uses just three chords: Em, C, G.

 

We certainly struggled for a long time we were trying to finish on a C chord (over which G bass sounded best) to create an unsettling effect but we couldn't get happy with it. But omitting the G letting the C hang and the bass does a run up then down that chord then E works.

 

There's probably some deep musical theory at work but I'm b****** if I know what it is.

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Start on the g string, any note, come down one fret lower on each string...

 

... or 'come up one fret higher on each string', to get the fingering to correspond to the notes. No wonder it took you all so long. 

 

...

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

9 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

... or 'come up one fret higher on each string', to get the fingering to correspond to the notes. No wonder it took you all so long. 

 

...

 

 

 

See... you know what I mean.

[Japhet]

Wish I could get a rehearsal. For the past 2 years I've done nothing but gigs where I'm sent a set list on Whatsapp a few days before and everything is on a wing and a prayer.

[Dad3353]

15 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

See... you know what I mean.

 

I took down my bass from the wall behind me, and spent a good ten minutes trying it out 'your way', until it finally clicked what the 'issue' was. I wondered for a while exactly how you were tuning your basses to get those notes, but then the 'light bulb' moment came, and all became clear. I don't know who's the dafter of us two, you or me..!