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Know any great "one-note" performances?


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I listened to one the other day:

 

Pink Floyd - Careful with the Axe, Eugene (the live version from Ummagumma).:thu:

 

(man, I wish I could have been there)

 

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I'm not really clear on what you mean by "one-note" performances, but the one-note solo on "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones is classic!

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I played a show with a band that just droned a single note for their entire set.

 

I don't remember the name of the band though.

 

Fun show.

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Was it sunn 0))) ?

Go check them out that band is riduculous.

 

Nah, this was a gig at a coffee shop. I've seen sunn 0))) twice, and both times they employed several notes.

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Yeah I've listend to them a few times It seems like they just down tune to like A and drop their {censored} and walk away.

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Yeah I've listend to them a few times It seems like they just down tune to like A and drop their {censored} and walk away.

 

 

Which albums?

 

I have white1, black1 and flight of the behemoth and all of them have a slow pace... but they all use tend to be riff oriented and usually go in a descending scale of some sort.

 

One of my buddies saw a band called Growing and says they actually just downtuned, dropped their {censored} and walked away. They had a bunch of random noise generation effects onstage though, so the set had some variety. I saw them and they played a more traditional drone set. I was a little disappointed, but it was still a great show.

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I'm not really into drone the only type of slowcore I like is Slude like ISIS's old stuff is probably some of my fav sludge.

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I'm not really into drone the only type of slowcore I like is Slude like ISIS's old stuff is probably some of my fav sludge.

 

"slowcore"

 

:D

 

that's two new genre categories for me today. The other was robotcore.

 

robotcore.

 

that's right,

 

robotcore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

robotcore

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HAHAHAHA YEAH I HEARD THAT ONE THE OTHER DAY TOO WTF IS THAT?

 

Idk I just made up slowcore cause thats what it sounds like to me heheh.

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um... one note samba, by Stan Getz? Sure... it goes up a fifth on the ninth bar, but I mean... its got "one note" in the title.

 

anyone else listen to bossa nova?

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When we opened for Sabbath on the Mob Rules tour, I walked in front of Geezer's rig (on the floor, not the stage) at soundcheck, he hit a short burst and almost knocked me over ... :eek:

 

I think I came. :o

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Andy Summers' guitar solo in "When the World is Running Down" - perfect, shows how effective a minimalist approach can be.

 

That piano thing in the movie "Eyes Wide Shut" - frickin' terrifying. It just tenses you right up.

 

I once saw Glenn Branca do a performance that had something like 12 electric guitars and a drummer. One piece was essentially just a balls out noise drone for 15 or 20 minutes. It was absolutely awesome. I was completely transfixed and didn't even realize what was happening. The piece ended abruptly and when it did I pitched forward in my seat and gasped for air - I hadn't even realized that during the piece I was holding my breath, my whole body was completely tensed, I was sweating heavily (just sitting down!), and my jaw was clenched. When it stopped with no warning, there was just this huge release as I "came up for air". Wow.......art. That was probably twenty five years ago and it's still today one of the most memorable and intense musical experiences ever.

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The intro to "Runnin' With The Devil" by Michael Anthony of VH has got to be one of the more memorable one note bass riffs

 

edit: oh yea, and for more Floyd isn't "One Of These Days" only one note with a bunch of delay all over it multi-tracked?

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The intro to "Runnin' With The Devil" by Michael Anthony of VH has got to be one of the more memorable one note bass riffs


edit: oh yea, and for more Floyd isn't "One Of These Days" only one note with a bunch of delay all over it multi-tracked?

 

 

'One of These Days' goes up a fourth (and back down)

 

'Careful With That Axe Eugene' goes up a minor third (in Eb minor!)

 

but 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is just C throughout!

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In "The Fish" by Yes, there are umpteen bass lines going at once. One of them is a great run that ends with a distorted note that just holds till the end of the song. That is my favorite "one note".

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