@acefiddle Your ear just isn't trained correctly... Think of a piano. If you're in the key of C, every black key is only ever one half step away from a "right" note.
Break out of your bluegrass shackles and come over to the jazz side... listen to some bebop with guys like Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie.
@PointSpecial09 OK, i guess you could be right cause it does not sound right. Only I thought new grass revival played jazzgrass and they sound just fine to me. I am stuck on the old traditional stuff i guess. I didnt mean any disrespect to these folks.
@acefiddle New Grass Revival was the originator of bluegrass fusion, so to speak, but plenty of other very talented artists have jumped in and are broadening it as well.
I heard Victor Wooten from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones say one time that the most important scale is actually the chromatic scale, and these guys certainly use it.
And I agree that it always isn't the most melodic (that's the definition of dissonant, right?) but when you're expecting those other notes, it has its own beauty
Why don't they all play the same song?
breckandy 9 months ago
You gotta love Mark Shatz in the background...just keeping the baseline
lempwood 10 months ago
i have to agree with banjo billy, too many DISTASTEFUL notes. LET the music breath!! dissonance has a place, yes but use it tastefully!
acefiddle 1 year ago
@acefiddle Your ear just isn't trained correctly... Think of a piano. If you're in the key of C, every black key is only ever one half step away from a "right" note.
Break out of your bluegrass shackles and come over to the jazz side... listen to some bebop with guys like Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie.
PointSpecial09 8 months ago
@PointSpecial09 OK, i guess you could be right cause it does not sound right. Only I thought new grass revival played jazzgrass and they sound just fine to me. I am stuck on the old traditional stuff i guess. I didnt mean any disrespect to these folks.
acefiddle 7 months ago
@acefiddle New Grass Revival was the originator of bluegrass fusion, so to speak, but plenty of other very talented artists have jumped in and are broadening it as well.
I heard Victor Wooten from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones say one time that the most important scale is actually the chromatic scale, and these guys certainly use it.
And I agree that it always isn't the most melodic (that's the definition of dissonant, right?) but when you're expecting those other notes, it has its own beauty
PointSpecial09 7 months ago
What no cowbell?
liverqiconstraint 1 year ago
That is probably the closest thing I can call a "once in a life" you experience
warftrat87 3 years ago
I thought if you had that much talent in such a confined space it reached critical mass and exploded. I am So jealous!
yaisum 3 years ago 5
WOW .. I THINK THEY PRACTICE A LOT.. MY FINGERS WOULD FALL FREAKIN' off IF I TRIED THAT...
karessong 3 years ago
oh my god that fingerwork is just genius
htarnowe 3 years ago
both of you make the assumption that there is no natural beauty in dissonance.
mil3ston3s 4 years ago
That dissonance stuff is part of his style...the idea being that you ugly it up a bit to make the melodies stand out more a few seconds later.
subtlepuddle 4 years ago
I'm surprised that Chris didn't injure himself! Like a contest to see who can fit in the most distasteful notes! Kinda hard on the ears too?
banjobilly32 4 years ago