On Jan 23, 3:49 pm, Kellie Allen <kaal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I like that "get in sink."
>
> I see similar usages all the time in my job. Things like: "one of the
> principal tenants of contract law is ..." or "defendant's arguments
> simply do not jive with the facts as alleged in this action." Like,
> cool, man.
>
> Kellie
>
> On Jan 23, 2:44=EF=BF=BDpm, Lyle Lofgren <lylelofg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 22, 9:57 pm, Geff Crawford <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > Is guitar backup just the slightest bit behind the beat in a dance
tun=
e
> > > with a fiddle lead? =EF=BF=BDHere's why I ask: A few times I've
overdu=
bbed over
> > > my own fiddle part with a guitar backup on a multi-track recorder.
=EF=
=BF=BDIt
> > > feels sort of artificial, compared with playing simultaneously with
> > > another live person in a jam, or when recording live with someone
else=
..
> > > =EF=BF=BD My perception is that I've noticed that if the guitar
isn't =
just
> > > slightly behind the fiddle, it makes the fiddle sound uncertain, or
no=
t
> > > swingy, or somehow out of sync. =EF=BF=BDIt's all very slight, so it
c=
ould just
> > > be my ear or sense of rhythm. =EF=BF=BDI'd be curious if anyone else
h=
as this
> > > same perception.
>
> > > Geff
>
> > I'm not sure what the reason is, but back in the 1970s I bought a
reel-
> > to-reel tape recorder that had a sound-on-sound capability, so I could
> > record with myself. I tried performing a piece where I played fiddle,
> > banjo and guitar, and sang as well. The result was incredibly boring,
> > and I think the reason was that you were hearing the same musical idea
> > repeated four times. I have no idea how musicians can do multiple
> > recordings with themselves and sound as good as unique musicians
> > playing together. I haven't tried it since. Maybe being slightly out
> > of sync would have helped.
>
> > Which reminds me of a memo I got years ago, back when I was working,
> > from a fellow engineer, (who spelled by ear) urging us all to "get in
> > sink."
>
> > Lyle
What I know about this topic is next to nothing, except I played for
many years in a band with a guitar player
who also played in a very hot bluegrass band. He said that the
bluegrass folks thought of the beat not as
a 'mountain top' so to speak but a plateau, a long flat surface upon
which various musicians played behind or ahead or in between. He
maintained that the banjo player (me) and the fiddler where always
ahead, while he was in the middle.
Not that he was complaining because in his view that this situation
made the music more interesting.
David, Kellie's long lost cuz
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