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I like classical music most. Which type of music do you like most?

I like most anything, 1920's jazz, music from the swing era, celtic, old time rock and country and some classical.

Classical

Right now, anything that doesn't require a B7 chord. "Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood....Arooooooooaaaaaaaargh!"

Tralala wrote:Right now, anything that doesn't require a B7 chord. "Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood....Arooooooooaaaaaaaargh!"

B7 always threw me too. I cheated, played it like an F down on the neck. Nobody noticed. Id just sing a little louder to cover it up. With me it was Ridin Down The Canyon and Waltzing Matilda.

I like pop music!!!!

Bighuey wrote:

Tralala wrote:Right now, anything that doesn't require a B7 chord. "Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood....Arooooooooaaaaaaaargh!"

B7 always threw me too. I cheated, played it like an F down on the neck. Nobody noticed. Id just sing a little louder to cover it up. With me it was Ridin Down The Canyon and Waltzing Matilda.

Hmmmm...I'll have to try that! Lord knows I can sing loud.
Here's the Richards take on that:
"Bo Diddley was high tech. Jimmy Reed was easier. He was straightforward. But to dissect how he played, Jesus. It took me years to find out how he actually played the 5 chord, in the key of E--the B chord, the last of the three chords before you go home, the resolver in a twelve-bar blues--the dominant chord, as it's called. When he gets to it, Jimmy Reed produces a haunting refrain, a melancholy dissonance. Even for non-guitar players, it's worth trying to describe what he does. At the 5 chord, instead of making the conventional barre chord, the B7th, which requires a little effort with the left hand, he wouldn't bother with the B at all. He'd leave the open A note ringing and just slide a finger up the D string to a 7th. And there's the haunting note, resonating against the open A. So you're not using root notes, but letting it fall against a 7th. Believe me, it's (a) the laziest, sloppiest single thing you can do in that situation, and (b) one of the most brilliant musical inventions of all time."

Kinda like the horns in "Long Time Woman". The notes make no sense, musically, but they sound GOOD!

I like classical best too...

country music

Metal and Country are very close

I prefer two: country and new age. Yeah, I know, what a mix. Yet when I write I always have new age in the background. It soothes my muse and I like to keep her happy.

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I listen to everything from Mozart to Mel Torme, and Tv on the Radio to Disturbed. My music scale goes everywhere. I even listen to French music when i can find it (Juliette Greco's a fave), and i love 80's rock. But i seem to be leaning more towards the alternative stuff and stuff that doesnt really have a label. Weezer, Cake, Tired Pony, Joshua Radin, Silversun Pickups, Modest Mouse, Cary Brothers, The Shins, The Kooks, ect. I guess it just depends on what mood i'm in on what i listen to at the moment.

I have just heard a excellent Islamic song. Its amazing and touch my heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl2l3HHVh94

I just heard Johnny Cash's Cocaine Blues. Kind of a funny song, Cash made some great comic songs.

Bighuey wrote:I just heard Johnny Cash's Cocaine Blues. Kind of a funny song, Cash made some great comic songs.

The stuff he recorded just before his death is very moving ... you can hear his voice tremble. Guess at that stage he knew he was on the last train & next stop was going to be pearly gates.