Take Five.
The sax part is iconic, but the piano and bass players are doing the same thing over and over again. The drums, though, that’s where the real complexity is in that piece.
On another note, Bolero is the worst piece for doing the same thing over and over again without fucking going anywhere. Total cocktease of a piece. You do the same thing over and over again, and then you stop playing. I recently learned that Koji Kondo had wanted to use Bolero for the overworld theme in Zelda, but they couldn’t license the copyright. Thank fuck we avoided that.
Thank you for that.
Additionally there is Axis Of Awesome with their 4 chord song.
Human music! I like it.
I was only briefly in a band and I gotta say, unless you were playing something like Coldplay, it was often 2-3 notes being pressed continously. I should have learned the keyboard instead
I picked up playing the handpan in the last year, and I go mad having to hit the same pattern over and over again. Fortunately, I usually play in drum circles where improvising in ways that work with the group is generally a good thing.
Also, I find Coldplay songs are better when someone other than Coldplay is playing them.
Fellow handpan player!
I gotta play with others more. I’ve managed it exactly one time so far and it was great fun
I remember a hoobastank song that was literally one note I kept pressing at a regular interval that barely changed the entire song. Didnt feel like I was playing anything lol
Coldplay pauses concert for Charlie Kirk, asks fans to ‘send love’ to activist’s family
Yeah well… I hope no one plays them any more.
Edit: I take it back. They seem to be staunchly pro Palestine and anti-genocide. Maybe it’s just their altruism and the uninformed opinion of the individual that lead to that moment.
Yeah, that was taken out of context a lot. They said that in a plea to send love to everyone, even people you don’t agree with. And also, it was about sending love to his family, certainly not commemorating the guy and what he represented.
Tbf, it was back during the time of their first album. I liked them until the second one, third I was mild, completely stopped listening after
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TFW you get an 8-string guitar and then only play the lowest string
Meanwhile the weird dude from Limp Bizkit: 4-string guitar.
bass guitar players: “am i a joke to you?”
It depends. Limp Bizkit tracks like ‘Nookie’ or ‘Full Nelson’ that use a 4-string guitar tuned to F# (like the low strings of an 8-string) do a pretty good job of letting the bass breathe despite the guitar’s low tuning. Helps that LB has really loud bass. But in modern djent-y metal, yeah kind of - Animals As Leaders doesn’t even have a bass player.
Bass players come in two flavors:
- 4 string instrument, changes tuning every song and uses the whole thing
- 7 string instrument, alternates between two strings for the duration of the song.
Then you have Stig Pedersen in D-A-D who’s left-handed and gets his instruments specially made. He decided to only have two strings on those.
Wes Borland! He’s more talented than his Bizkit work would suggest, I actually dig his solo work.
I’ll put that on my to-listen list!
I think all the musicians in Limp Bizkit are really good, even Fred Durst is a good vocalist. It’s the problematic lyrics and the off-stage antics that clearly show that it’s not ‘just a joke, bro’ that pull it down.
The weird dude from Limp Bizkit? You know Fred Durst was also in that band, right? You can’t just say “the weird one” with this band. Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Oh hell. PerWee Herman joined for a brief spell for about 2 weeks on their live tour in 2004 when Durst was sick.
I mean, I made that last part up, but you just checked wikipedia, didn’t you? I mean living in 2025, no claim is too absurd to be real. We live in the dumbest timeline.
Arguably, Fred Durst isn’t weird, he’s just a douchey frat bro, and those are a dime a dozen. By 90s nu metal standards, he might even stand out by being too normal.
