Learn a new Riverblind song before it’s finished.
Happy Guy Fawkes!
This concept of teaching you our new songs before they are even finished comes from a brilliant move by Deerhoof.
They gave out sheet music of a song not yet released and had fans record their own versions before even hearing the song.
I’m gonna do it a bit differently though as you’ll see below. But first, an important announcement.
Gig Line Up Change:
Big Flip The Massive will not be playing at the Friday 13th Happy gig coming up. Instead Big Flip’s drummer Reece will be playing with another of his many ensembles: West Coast Bullies. (No, Big Flip did not pull out because I took the piss out of their name in my robot video…. I hope…).
How to play Riverblind’s new material.
Dave, Stefan and I have been having much fun writing new material at recent practices. If you want to hear what the new songs sound like you’ll have to wait a bit though as they’re not done yet. But this isn’t going to stop me from trying to teach you how to play them. The first one is easy:
Play a 3:4 groove for the first 3 beats of a 5/4 bar (for the last 2 beats of the bar just play the first 2 beats of the 3:4, but don’t play the last beat of the 4). While this is going on play 4 beats in the space of the 5/4 bar over top (that’s 5:4), then, just when you start to think “oh, this maths might actually be musical” break into a heavy Soundgarden-like riff that takes off out of nowhere. Done. Call the song something like: “Numbers Are Special” or you can call it something better.
Got the idea?
I’ll post instructions for the other song if requested, but first I’ll have to figure out what the hell Stefan got Dave to do on the guitar. It’s something like: loop 3/4 then loop 5 over that then play some fancy solo. It’s actually really groovy – honest!
That should keep you busy. See you on Friday the 13th!
Photo by d3 Dan
