The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42845   Message #703839
Posted By: Marion
03-May-02 - 03:54 PM
Thread Name: Finding chords by watching other players
Subject: RE: Finding chords by watching other players
M.Ted answered my question about music videos above:

"I was talking about the MTV UNPLUGGED series(on MTV!), of which the Clapton show was a single episode--it has been on for years, and features live performances by rock artists, playing their usually electric stuff on acoustic instruments--most rock videos are just pantomine playing, and often, the records are so full of effects and multitracking and strings and such that you can't get a feel for what they really play--so it is a rare chance to see how the stuff really works--" (M.Ted)

Actually for a while I made it a habit to put on CMT (country music video station) to have something to jam to when I was by myself. But I stopped doing that when I discovered that they play pretty much the same videos every frigging day, and that 98% of the time all the men are playing instruments and all the women are either just singing or just strutting around looking meangingfully at the men. This got very annoying fast.

Marion