The music of FOTC: Freak out with your geek out!

emira wrote:

sheila wrote:


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Is Beck a comedy-parody act as well? ;
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he is not ... but i def hear a lot of beck in fotc.

sheila wrote:

emira wrote:

Is Beck a comedy-parody act as well? ;
)

he is not ... but i def hear a lot of beck in fotc.

sorry, that was irony

I've been reluctant with practicing playing the guitar recently and pretty lazy after winter holiday . I couldn't force myself to studying the notes or just simply stretching my hands etc. :

Today I took a FOTC songbook to my guitar class to ask my teacher to crack the chords for me. He admitted they aren't that simple when it comes to explaining them;
a lot of #s and 7s :-/ but when he started doing it and struck some chords for "
Think about it"
without even knowing the song, I just jumped inside or even blushed with excitement and my reluctance has gone .


So actually, this post is just about the power of even individually flying chords and the multiplied power of the chords played together.


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Oh, the chords that sound together best:

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[align=right:7y5xaonm]Am I too obvious? [/align:7y5xaonm]

[size=133:xv36r9tu]How do they rate themselves as musicians?

"
Bret's better than I am, and I'm worse than Bret is,"
says Clement.

"
And I think we're both just above mediocre,"
says McKenzie.

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[size=100:xv36r9tu]...“
but we’
re still technically a band,”
McKenzie says.

Film-maker Gemma Gracewood, a Wellington neighbour and bandmate of McKenzie’
s in the Wellington Ukulele Orchestra, agrees.

"
Their musical and songwriting prowess is stunning. If you put the gags aside and just listen to the composition of the songs, two guys on guitars, without a drum kit, with a full venue dancing to them –
not just laughing along, but actually grooving to the music …
I think that’
s one of the biggest keys to their success, but it sits behind the comedy.

"
You listen to one of their songs and there are shades of Bowie, shades of the Velvet Underground, the Beatles. They know their music. There’
s a real magic there.

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I agree with Gemma

emira wrote:I've been reluctant with practicing playing the guitar recently and pretty lazy after winter holiday . I couldn't force myself to studying the notes or just simply stretching my hands etc. :

Today I took a FOTC songbook to my guitar class to ask my teacher to crack the chords for me. He admitted they aren't that simple when it comes to explaining them;
a lot of #s and 7s :-/ but when he started doing it and struck some chords for "
Think about it"
without even knowing the song, I just jumped inside or even blushed with excitement and my reluctance has gone .


So actually, this post is just about the power of even individually flying chords and the multiplied power of the chords played together.


ADD

Oh, the chords that sound together best:

+ =



[align=right:byslv1kf]Am I too obvious? [/align:byslv1kf]

Congratulations on jumping back in. Now you're that much closer to starting an FotC tribute band.

^^ maybe some day...

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[size=100:m1uxhx7j] Is it fair to describe your music as a hybrid form that parodies folk music and other genres?
I would describe our music as weird. I mean, I wouldn’
t want to listen to it.

[url=NYTimes][/url]