Nickel Creek, Bela Fleck, Tim O'Brien
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@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
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@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.
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Why don't they all play the same song?
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You gotta love Mark Shatz in the background...just keeping the baseline
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i have to agree with banjo billy, too many DISTASTEFUL notes. LET the music breath!! dissonance has a place, yes but use it tastefully!
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What no cowbell?
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That is probably the closest thing I can call a "once in a life" you experience
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WOW .. I THINK THEY PRACTICE A LOT.. MY FINGERS WOULD FALL FREAKIN' off IF I TRIED THAT...
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
@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