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In my experience most metal musicians can hold their own with the best of them when it comes to hard core music nerding with thing like idiosyncratic time signa
by dagw 3y ago
In my experience most metal musicians can hold their own with the best of them when it comes to hard core music nerding with thing like idiosyncratic time signatures and unusual chord and key changes.
- j2bax 3y agoMaybe your Berkeley grad metal practitioners like Dream Theater and probably a lot of metal in the last decade or two (since the internet and YouTube) but I imagine a lot of garage metal bands from the 70’s and 80’s were probably just playing/writing by feel and a loose understanding of music theory. I’m sure producers helped bring it all together on the album.
- dagw 3y agoYea, I think we can roughly split metal into pre-90s and post-90s, with 'modern' metal being a lot musical and precise. Just looking at all the people I know that have been in bands, the more into music theory they are, the more likely they are to be in a metal band.
- zaps 3y agoCliff was the music nerd of the group, James especially leaned on him to learn a lot of theory
- Jolter 3y agoYes, but 1986 Metallica couldn’t. They took pride in playing Thrash Metal, not prog.
- dagw 3y agoTrue. I was talking more about 'modern' metal (early 90s and onwards)