General Music Chat

132 views in 1 day on youtube.. not bad, not bad at all..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOk7YzFZfZA

132 X 7 = 924 views per week, X 52 weeks a year= 48,048 views a year.. wow!.. we might have a fan base already established folks..?

maybe some of the others wish they had a dance band..

that's EXACTLY what THE 121's (my truckstop band) are all about. our house gig at The Backdoor Saloon (i SWEAR...that honestly IS the name of the place at the truckstop!) is this old '60's/'70's style saloon w a big a$$ dance floor.....and if we don't have 'em there dancing on every song....we AIN'T doing our job!

trust me... we do our job. and we do it VERY WELL.

I received notification they want to do Highway Song in D?..is that key of D major or is that key of D minor? I don't think it can be successfully transposed to either one of those keys without it sounding alien sounding? what is your take Planetguy? the tune (and everybody plays it this way) starts out Em - C - D - Em -C - D - C - ( I say F#/D but others say
D maj.) - Em- B7..
so doing it in "D" would start how?

well, you need to establish and get a clear cut answer is it DMaj or Dm.

looking at the chord progression you posted .... i'd call it in the key of G (Em - C - D - Em -C - D - C -)

someone else might call it and think...Em... and that's not necessarily "wrong".

but if they're thinking of it as Em and they say "take it down to D" likely they're thing bring it down a whole step to Dm.

but why guess? just ask and get clarified. end of problem!


and unless there's a lot of gtr work that relies on open strings (when it's played in Em) it shouldn't be any problem to drop it down to Dm (IF that's in fact the "D" he wants. there's no need to retune anything.

do you really need help transposing?

just knock everything down a whole step. (or think of the chords as numbers ....in the key of "G" Em=m6...C=M4....D=M5 just use the numbers to transpose. does that makes sense?

In "G" (or Em) Em - C - D - Em -C - D - C -

In Dm (FMAJ) Dm - Bb - C- Dm -Bb - C -Bb

In DM (Bm) Bm - G - A - Bm - G - A - G

I have been asking but no replies, only that Grant and Bob will show me Friday at 2PM rehearsal, it's not that easy of song just to jam it out like say Johnny B. Goode, I will give them a few more hours to get the chord chart sent and tuning of the guitars if different..

I ain't tryin' to rain on anyone's parade, and I truly do hope it all turns out well for you, Dayne. But you post a clip on a site populated by some good musicians, you're gonna get some criticism. True, you get folks drunk enough, they'll to boogie to anything, but I haven't done any gigs like that in at least 30 years. Nor does the average person have a very discerning ear or sense of rhythm (actually, there are quite a few so-called musicians out there who don't, either). I neither drink nor get high and I gotta look myself in the mirror (as Randall Bramblett put it, "agonizing reappraisal"), and things like being on pitch, in tune and in the pocket are important to me. Yeah, this was a clip of guys practicing in a garage--as I said before, not ideal conditions--but that shouldn't impact being on pitch. And your singer--your front man--isn't.

It hit home for me once about 35 years ago. I was doing a blues gig, had a bad day and wasn't on it. All I wanted to do was get through the gig, get paid and drink enough shots of Jager to pass out. A guy who came to a lot of our gigs came up to me during a break and told me "Man, you really suck tonight." He had a good buzz on, but he was still right. That has stuck w/ me all these years.

Again, I realize this is a clip of guys practicing in a garage--some of whom apparently had never met before--and there was no expectation of being ready to play MSG, and yeah, you got some views on youtube, but I wouldn't be patting myself on the back too much, yet. Mike said it best:

Listened to the video, I didn't hear any 'wow' factor, just sounded like another country-rock weekend dive bar band...

There's plenty of work to do. Whether your singer can stay on pitch, dunno, but for me, the collective sound is the most important aspect. It's the only reason I still play. Just my opinion, FWIW.

nope, I can transpose it, I agree with Mike need a 5 string bass with low B string so can hit the low D..the tune won't sound remotely correct otherwise.. go see for yourself, I have tried every conceivable D minor chord open position, 5th fret position A type barreing, and 10th fret position e shape barreing and all are too trebly for that intro chord..

Dayne, I play bass in D standard tuning, at all times.

Without it, my brand of deep rock music just wouldn't sound right. Being able to go lower D as a root on a D chord or as a 5th on a G chord is the bomb. And it's totally optional. I think it sounds great clean or distorted. If you aren't comfortable with tuning the entire axe down a whole step for the duration of the set, just tune down the bottom strung using harmonics for the one song. Easiest thing ever.

well said....DP.

likely you did a better job than i trying to get across some tough love. dayne, perhaps you've never played this kind of bar band music in a working band before? i dunno. but there are bands that do this material and do it w the all important requisite things that DP mentioned....

good intonation, and just as important good groove.

RULE NUMBER 1 (thru 10)....you do NOT get people's asses moving w/o laying down serious groove. now maybe you guys can get that part of things together a little better. but will it ever really kill groove wise???

well. from what i saw and heard there....you guys have some serious work to do to sound like a band that's on the same page of playing together and in the pocket.

that's not "raining on your parade"...that's giving you an honest assessment of what i saw and heard.

because i've played in bands doing this stuff and i've heard tons more.....that's why i'm not more impressed and wowed by this JC Band. see, i do have something to make a fair and accurate comparison.

or...if you prefer....i could just blow smoke up your skirt and tell you that the band's great and that you're on your way! is that really what you'd prefer???? i'd hope not.

Schmeddy the real issue is, I can't understand why we have to play Highway Song in another key signature anyhow, I know it's because of the vocal range of the singer, but I have always been a stickler for doing tunes in the keys in which they were originally written, if it can't be done, go on to another tune out of the zillions of tunes out there, I do like some versions of "Yesterday" in other keys but that is an exception..LOL

132 views in 1 day on youtube.. not bad, not bad at all..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOk7YzFZfZA

Dayne is this the new band?

I guess we're just built differently, Dayne.
Everything can and will be transposed at some point.

If these guys are really Nashville types, they've most likely been transposing this that and the other thing for decades. The Roman numerals thing, Dayne. Learn it, live it, love it.

yes Jeff, killer isn't it? LOL

Schmeddy, it is not about having the ability to transpose Highway Song, but have you ever seen any other band in the universe ever transpose Highway Song which is beautiful in Em key to any other key?. it sounds cheesy in D minor, and was basically told I was a real nobody, and the guy featured in the video playing the Taylor acoustic is the MUSICAL DIRECTOR straight from the horse's mouth.. and If they are worried I am stealing audio files, and now not sending me the "tools" I need to figure the sh*t out WITHOUT CHARTS then I just don't know.. accused me of playing by ear? what else are you going to do if you do not have the written out chart?

I don't know charts. I think it was a record store near our house when I was a kid.

I just click record and see what I fart out. Usually something I like. That's all that's important to me.

You'll have ups and downs with this venture, just like any band. A band is just a collection of humans, who don't always click together like a set of Legos. You just need to stay honest with them and hope they do the same with you.

And watch out for that passive aggressive sh*t. Anyone who only deals with other people by backstabbing is to be avoided.