The song has a 6/8 time signature. All I hear is 1-2-3 1-2-3, like a waltz. I tried following this video but got distracted by the hostess. Perhaps Sixty could explain 6/8 in layman terms. Like he did for the song "Whipping Post" off the same classic album.
The song features unusual uses of silence. First is the full stop around the 3m20s mark. And then how they let the song flicker and almost go out near the end. And lastly how the stunned audience pauses at the very end before applauding -- almost like they weren't sure it was over.
The song cooks --Stay cool!
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I am about to go pound some sheet metal on a friend's lawnmower, because that's what one does when it is about a million degrees outside, but listening to that piece what I hear is an emphasis on the first beat of each measure - _1_ 2 3 4 5 6, _1_ 2 3 4 5 6, and so on. It is easy to hear the beginning of each 6 beat measure just by how they hit it - BAM! - there's the one, then 5 more with less emphasis, then BAM! I am sure there are plenty of other differences and even more similarities between 3/4 and 6/8, involving dividing each quarter note into two either notes and so on, but I must go bang some metal. Because I can. And yes, that's what the kids are calling it these days.
Interesting ending on that one - very artsy! The one thing the late, and need I say great, Rick Hall missed out on was when Duane Allman said to him, while in the FAME studio, just let us play, keep the tape rolling, we will play and you will make a billion dollars. Duane was right, Rick missed the boat.
So there you have it - listen for the ONE! It is quite distinctive in that groove. Then count 5 more and ONE will return, right on time.
Good movie soundtrack music. I saw Steve McQueen in Bullitt in my mind's eye or my mind's ear. Does that date me?
Mood Music
The hip, the hep, the dangerous,
Glidin' and slidin' along;
The long basins, distant ranges,
All delivered in song.
Interesting ending on that one - very artsy!
They did a fade out ending which must have been tough to do live because invariably some asshole in audience shouts something or whistles. It almost sounds contrived, like they they turned the mic volume down as well as fading away. Then they all come back quickly and give an abrupt end.
*Case in point: That's me yelling "Set it on fire" at the 17 second mark and I believe that Arsun smiled at it.
Helter Swelter, Sixty. We are having unseasonably cool weather and rain out here which is strange for us.
I picked the Allman Bros. song "Hot 'Lanta" because I saw a temperature map of the southeastern US with Atlanta at the epicenter.
I'm so old I remember when the tomahawk chop was allowed in Atlanta.
But do you hear the accent on the first beat, CL?
ricpic wrote: I saw Steve McQueen in Bullitt in my mind's eye or my mind's ear. Does that date me?
Heh, I see his Mustang. I had to look up the year -- 1968. I used to know those model years by body style. My dad owned a few Mustangs. Such getting old and forgetting things.
But do you hear the accent on the first beat, CL?
Yes, but I also hear a slight emphasis on 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6
I meant: "Sucks getting old and forgetting things."
Perhaps if I wrote in complete sentences, autocorrect wouldn't intrude.
I'm so old I remember when the tomahawk chop was allowed in Atlanta.
I'm so old I remember when the Braves moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee. That was around the time that Bart Starr got on my radar.
The Braves leaving Milwaukee was a travesty. Pure greed, Milwaukee loved and supported the Braves.
I remember when the Senators left Washington and became the Twins. Sad.
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