Thread: Playing "Crash/Ride" Beats...
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Old 08-10-2007, 03:53 PM   #10
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In particular his meter is perfect.
I'll bet that metronomic time was nice in the studio.
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I guess the chorus of "All the Small Things" is crash on the beat. I hate it. My job is to play eighth notes the whole time. I hate songs like that. Live, I can't tell from dick because the stage monitor mix is usually a crap shoot and it's rare I have my own monitor anyway.
Nothing better than trying to sit on straight eighth notes,
when you're getting so much bounce-back from the PA that you don't know where the actual beat is.
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