OT(ish): Alan Davey...

[Kevin Perry]

Dunno - I was rewatching one of my HW videos at the weekend (after seeing
Bedouin on Friday) and it looks like chords (ie. multiple notes at once) a
lot of the time, with the occasional single note.  They looked like a
Root-Third (open G on guitar) shape a lot of the time, but starting on the A
string - he seems to not play the bottom E much at all - there's definitely
a lot of strumming going on!  When I tried to sequence it (with a sampled
Ricky sound), it sounded horrible!

Timing was definitely part of the problem - Alan's phrasing is superb - but
it also sounded muddy!

Kevin Perry
Sonic Energy Authority
http://freespace.virgin.net/kevin.perry/


----- Original Message -----
From: flossbac <flossbac at NLCI.COM>
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Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: OT(ish): Alan Davey...


> > <<  Does anyone know what chords Alan actually plays? >>
> >
> > ========
> > gee, as the bass player, he's perhaps playing intervals, but not chords,
> any
> > ol' way.
> > or did i miss something?
>
> I think you missed something.  You can play chords perfectly well on
> bass--I've done it many times.  In general, he plays single-note stuff,
but
> there are a few places where some chords are used, although they're
nothing
> strange.  Keep in mind that especially on bass, because the distance
between
> frets is so large, it's not even possible to have much "stretch" between
> notes so most chords consist of:
> 1) a drone string with other fretted notes against it (as in "Down Through
> the Night" and "Damnation Alley")
> 2) generally the index finger barring three strings (leaving intervals of
> 4ths) with perhaps some finger action two frets up on any of the strings.
> Alan rarely uses dissonant chords (except "Time We Left" which has a
> root/flat 5th type of thing)
> John Majka
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