Thoughts on Opeth, the Internet, and the state of metal today
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Super Mahrio
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if it werent for the internet i wouldnt know some people...i guess thats what its done for me...i wouldnt know about the shows going on, and i wouldnt have met some of my friends and i wouldnt know of certain bands....Opeth being one of them...since back in 2001 or so i downloaded one of their songs (Blackwater Park i believe) and ive been a fan since...
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But the question is: does it make you feel better?
Uhm anyway, I'd know about Opeth regardless of the internet as I found out about them through a magazine whilst they were doing the US tour for BWP. The deal is that I probably wouldn't have been able to sample any of their material and hence wouldn't be a fan. Heil internet.
Uhm anyway, I'd know about Opeth regardless of the internet as I found out about them through a magazine whilst they were doing the US tour for BWP. The deal is that I probably wouldn't have been able to sample any of their material and hence wouldn't be a fan. Heil internet.
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"In music, the word dynamics refers to the volume of the sound. The renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli was one of the first to indicate dynamics in music notation.
The two basic dynamic indications in music are piano, meaning "softly" or "quietly", usually abbreviated as p; and forte, meaning "loudly" or "strong", usually abbreviated as f. More subtle degrees of loudness or softness are indicated by mp, standing for mezzo-piano, and meaning "half-quiet"; and mf, mezzo-forte, "half loud".
Beyond f and p, there is ff, standing for "fortissimo", and meaning "very loudly"; and pp, standing for "pianissimo", and meaning "very quietly". To indicate even more extreme degrees of intensity, more ps or fs are added as required. fff (fortississimo) and ppp (pianississimo) are found in sheet music quite frequently, but more than three fs or ps is quite rare. It is sometimes said that pppp stands for pianissississimo, but such words are very rarely used either in speech or writing, even when present in a score."
The two basic dynamic indications in music are piano, meaning "softly" or "quietly", usually abbreviated as p; and forte, meaning "loudly" or "strong", usually abbreviated as f. More subtle degrees of loudness or softness are indicated by mp, standing for mezzo-piano, and meaning "half-quiet"; and mf, mezzo-forte, "half loud".
Beyond f and p, there is ff, standing for "fortissimo", and meaning "very loudly"; and pp, standing for "pianissimo", and meaning "very quietly". To indicate even more extreme degrees of intensity, more ps or fs are added as required. fff (fortississimo) and ppp (pianississimo) are found in sheet music quite frequently, but more than three fs or ps is quite rare. It is sometimes said that pppp stands for pianissississimo, but such words are very rarely used either in speech or writing, even when present in a score."
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dorian gray
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ack! i hate that "renaissance" jargon. i think they tried and thats all they knew but now we know about and can measure frequency and amplitude in real time. the world would be a better place for people like me who would rather read music that was all numbers rather than antiquated signs and dots and figures and silly-sounding italian words. not bitching, just thinking there should be a more efficient way. much like this stupid QWERTY keyboard that makes no sense at all. we could change it but it would cost too much. blah!
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ahahaa, right on dorian. I never got the deal with the QWERTY keyboards... but hey, its like second nature to everybody now, you can't really change it.
And yes we can really get technical these days with audio in terms of analysing the waveform spectrum, measuring amplitude and whatnot else. It isn't simply a matter of 'loud', 'very loud', 'sort of loud' anymore. Music is pretty traditional though, so I think they'll keep the renaissance jargon for a while yet.
And yes we can really get technical these days with audio in terms of analysing the waveform spectrum, measuring amplitude and whatnot else. It isn't simply a matter of 'loud', 'very loud', 'sort of loud' anymore. Music is pretty traditional though, so I think they'll keep the renaissance jargon for a while yet.
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dorian gray
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damn germans!
moonlapse: i assumed as much. i still think its funny though that when you want to play from some sheet music, you have to read little dots and lines and words from languages youve never heard of.
heh. "sort of loud". heh heh
moonlapse: i assumed as much. i still think its funny though that when you want to play from some sheet music, you have to read little dots and lines and words from languages youve never heard of.
heh. "sort of loud". heh heh
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Arnold Layne
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I wouldnt listen to half the bands i do today without the net. Got sick of the radio years ago and came on the net to find new bands. Both metal and non metal.
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^ agreed that i wouldn't be listening to the amount of bands AND the diverse types of music w/out the internet. with that:
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