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Intro's - chris - 09-25-2004
As a novice guitar player, I've tried to learn as many Hip songs as possible. The intro to "Blow At High Dough" was one of the first one's my room mate taught me. Until the Cleveland show, I always assumed that Paul played the intro, however on this particular night, Gord S played it on the bass.
More just a posting of my observation than a topic for discussion, but I thought it was interesting.
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- das_hips - 09-25-2004
Even on the CD its Sinclairs Bass... I'm pretty sure anyways... he plays it on the D and G strings, so it sounds more 'trebly', but its him..
- The Horrible Esthete - 09-27-2004
Definitely Gord's bass on the intro, even on the album, though Bobby (or Paul....but I'm guessing it's Baker) adds the little harmonic "rings".....
- chris - 09-27-2004
Why are you sure it is the bass on the album? What gives away the fact that it is a bass?
- The Horrible Esthete - 09-27-2004
Gosh, Chris....that's awfully hard to verbally explain, but I'll do my best....
It has to do with the 'tone' of the notes - when you play the intro on your six string, do you think it sounds like the record? I'm sure, given your equipment, you can make it sound close, but pay special attention to the tone; the smaller-gauge guitar strings produce a 'twanginess' that exists because of the higer frequency of the sound. There isn't as much 'bottom end' or fullness and stability in the sound, especially when electrically amplified.
This description is hardly adequate - a better means would be to do a comparison yourself. I suggest listening to that intro on the UTH CD, and then skipping to the NOIS intro and evaluating the difference in the tonal qualities of those notes (the NOIS intro is an iso on the six-string, unlike Blow, which is an iso on the bass). Go back and forth between these intros and the difference in timbre between the bass strings and the guitar strings shold be eveident (even though Blow is in the key of B and NOIS is in the 'lower' key of E)....
I'd be interested to hear whether or not this exercise helps you detect a difference....
- clarke - 10-03-2004
definetly bass
- chris - 10-03-2004
The Horrible Esthete Wrote:Gosh, Chris....that's awfully hard to verbally explain, but I'll do my best....
It has to do with the 'tone' of the notes - when you play the intro on your six string, do you think it sounds like the record? I'm sure, given your equipment, you can make it sound close, but pay special attention to the tone; the smaller-gauge guitar strings produce a 'twanginess' that exists because of the higer frequency of the sound. There isn't as much 'bottom end' or fullness and stability in the sound, especially when electrically amplified.
This description is hardly adequate - a better means would be to do a comparison yourself. I suggest listening to that intro on the UTH CD, and then skipping to the NOIS intro and evaluating the difference in the tonal qualities of those notes (the NOIS intro is an iso on the six-string, unlike Blow, which is an iso on the bass). Go back and forth between these intros and the difference in timbre between the bass strings and the guitar strings shold be eveident (even though Blow is in the key of B and NOIS is in the 'lower' key of E)....
I'd be interested to hear whether or not this exercise helps you detect a difference....
Wow! That is a great answer, and I understand what you mean.
Thank you.
I suppose my guitar sounds like the album because I play through a Pod and headphones, tweaking it to sound like the album. Gotta love technology!