What a snare should sound like

[skoora]

Beats the Hell out of me bro'.

Had to click on Back in Black. It just never gets old. What a masterpiece.

Acca Dacca are my favorite band but except for maybe the BIB album I wouldn’t say they have a standout snare sound. Overall as a band they are the tits. They got a big snare sound on FTATR and FOTW (big…but great?) but I’ve never listened to them and thought “those drums sound amazing”. Just always feeling how much the music as a whole is rocking my socks.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Jinx on all points brother, except that I can't play any.

Never taught myself anyone else's song on guitar, ever. As a teen when I first picked up the bass I taught myself 2 songs - Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang and Planet Earth by Duran Duran.

To this day those are the only songs I've learned on any instrument. My philosophy is about keeping a clean slate for writing, so my attitude to practicing is the same. Don't wanna be repeating muscle-memory tricks or others' ideas and whatnot.

Love the approach. Reminds me a bit of Malmsteen when he said he had no influences other than Bach, Paganini, and beethoven .. then he'd throw Hendrix in there too and act like he had never heard any other guitarist in the 70's

 

[Monkey Man]

Ahh... influences are a different beast altogether.

I've always listened to a huge variety of genres. IMHO what I listen to helps develop sensibilities, but as long as I don't try to copy anything, the palette remains broad and "untainted". A painter reaching for or mixing the same colour over and again would be analogous to what I was bangin' on about riff / muscle-memory-wise.

 

[skoora]

Ahh... influences are a different beast altogether.

I've always listened to a huge variety of genres. IMHO what I listen to helps develop sensibilities, but as long as I don't try to copy anything, the palette remains broad and "untainted". A painter reaching for or mixing the same colour over and again would be analogous to what I was bangin' on about riff / muscle-memory-wise.

I’m not against learning songs but have found over the years I rarely do. I’ll cop a riff I like or a rhythmic part I dig but after playing all these years there’s probably only a handful beyond AC/DC I could play all the way through. Just enjoy being in my own head rather than someone else’s. Part of it is probably I’ve never been a shredder so I never was interested in woodshedding other’s solo’s etc. Even though I like listening to people tear the guitar a new one all the time!

 

[Monkey Man]

Just enjoy being in my own head rather than someone else’s.

Indeed!

Part of it is probably I’ve never been a shredder so I never was interested in woodshedding other’s solo’s etc. Even though I like listening to people tear the guitar a new one all the time!

Same here mate. Love listening to good shredding; just can't do it.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Indeed!

Same here mate. Love listening to good shredding; just can't do it.

Nuno said that trying to learn the exact notes of a solo is pointless because you end up being that style. He learned what he could by ear and even if the notes were wrong, he made it his own and developed his style so there is that too. Earlier musicians mostly just listened and interpreted vs read tabs and copy. But anyway.. back to good snares! Danzig had some pretty solid dry snare sounds. Natural.

 

[skoora]

Nuno said that trying to learn the exact notes of a solo is pointless because you end up being that style. He learned what he could by ear and even if the notes were wrong, he made it his own and developed his style so there is that too. Earlier musicians mostly just listened and interpreted vs read tabs and copy. But anyway.. back to good snares! Danzig had some pretty solid dry snare sounds. Natural.

Some of the songs on Danzig 4 have awesome roomy snare sounds.

 

[DanTravis62]

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