Okay I saw @cdirksen tweet heaping praise on last night's Stash and made a mental note to check it out. But he just texted and won't leave me alone until I listen to it so I'm listening now.
I've tweeted this 100x but I truly don't understand how both the bass and drums can play this many notes simultaneously and it not only isn't too busy but the groove is actually elegant. This is impossible. But they're doing it. WTF #phish
Whatever the hell Trey starts doing shortly after the 12:00 mark with those long, sweeping bendy phrases is just fucking incredible.
Not positive of the count but there were like 5 modulations and all felt completely organic.
The band tends to modulate to the IV when there's nothing creative going on, like a crutch.
And that still works a lot of the time and lots of bliss jams come out of that...
...but these all felt natural, like the music just needed to go there. Like it wasn't a conscious decision.
That's a lot of modulations in a short piece of improv and yet it all flowed beautifully.
Can't remember the last tour this band came out this creatively in sync. #phish
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Tempos are slower but probably not by nearly as much as you might think.
I listened to last night's Stash which felt slooooooow. And it was. Around 170 bpm.
But I checked out some other random 3.0 Stash's + they are only at about 180 bpm. #phish 1/X
That makes last night's Stash barely over 5% slower than other recent versions.
Why it sounded significantly slower is actually the flow, or lack there of, of the composed section. Believe it or not it's *much harder* to play stuff like this at a slower tempo. 2/X
This is sometimes counterintuitive to non-musicians + a little hard to explain.
When you get into a flow state your muscle memory takes over and you simply hear what you want to play in your head (composed or improvised) and then make it come out of your guitar (or tuba!) 3/X
I was asked by my friend @RJBee_2, who is a self-proclaimed classical music noob, for some suggestions.
This thread is a few of my favorites that I would recommend to get started.
But note there's a million directions you can go with all of this.
Bach's Goldberg Variations is IMO the greatest solo work ever written for any instrument. This is my favorite pianist of all time Glenn Gould's famous recording from 1955.
Here's the same piece by the same pianist 26 years later towards the very end of his career. The difference in interpretation is incredible.
This 1981 recording of the Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould is equally renowned.