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That's also a "classical" rock band - vocals, guitar, bass, drums (e.g. Beatles any many others)
by chubot 2y ago
That's also a "classical" rock band - vocals, guitar, bass, drums (e.g. Beatles any many others)
- maccard 2y agoMost rock bands have more than one guitar.
- MisterTea 2y agoWhich could be in the vocalists hands in the gp's example keeping the number at four.
- throwaway290 2y agoBass is a guitar in 99% rock bands. I have not seen a good band with more than 4 people on stage simultaneously.
- shesstillamodel 2y agoAC/DC. Foo Fighters. Guns 'n Roses. Queens of the Stone Age...
- throwaway290 2y agowell I have not seen them in particular ^^ There are good bands like that but not most.
- datameta 2y agoLet's not forget the synthesists
- jeremyjh 2y agoRolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Journey, Radiohead, Guns and Roses, Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC, The Eagles
- throwaway290 2y agoHave not seen them either. You pick really popular names but in most regular bands when there is more people there is worse link between them...
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- PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago"Music for 18 Musicians" by Steve Reich is probably one of the masterworks of the second half of the 20th century. Any vaguely disco-adjacent band will have more than 4 people on stage because there will be at least keyboards and horns in addition to drums, bass, guitar and vocals. Even a band that simply adds an additional person player percussion to a typical 4 piece exceeds your limit yet can wonderfully enhance the music. If you haven't seen any of those bands, then that's your loss, but provides no reason to try to generalize about the right size for a live band.
- throwaway290 2y agoIt's anecdotal and subjective but I go see many rock bands and good ones always have 4, 3 or 2 people :shrug:
- SoftTalker 2y agoVocals are often a person who is also playing an instrument. So in a 4-person band you can have up to four voices, lead and rhythm guitar (or maybe keyboard), drums, and bass.
- rufus_foreman 2y ago>> I have not seen a good band with more than 4 people on stage simultaneously Glenn Branca Orchestra.
- throwaway290 2y agowhat does it have to do with the point > I have not met a religious programmer > Donald Knuth
- bigstrat2003 2y agoYes but parent poster was almost certainly talking about lead guitar and rhythm guitar.
- ludston 2y agoYou've never seen a big band or an orchestra? Sir please.
- throwaway290 2y agoI saw an orchestra once or twice. We're talking about rock music here. I've seen bigger bands but they suck in comparison.
- ludston 2y agoGuessing from your response, you might not know of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band, which is fine. But now you do :)
- throwaway290 2y agoEdit: I thought you linked to yet another famous band. People keep doing that... 99% of bands a normal person would see in normal life don't even have a wikipedia page. However your link looks about jazz. A common rock band is rarely good with more than 4 members because people lose unity and it's just technically harder and people are rarely professionally trained.
- ludston 2y agoHonestly I wouldn't know anything about rock bands because I don't listen to it at all so you could be very right. I just responded because this thread was talking about string/barbershop quartets, which are almost definitely 4 parts because that is the minimum number of people required to make a 7th chord, and then again because you didn't know what a Big Band was, which I suppose is very understandable, but as somebody that grew up around and playing on them it's super foreign to me.
- throwaway290 2y agoAh. I was replying to "Most rock bands have more than one guitar". I don't listen to barbershop quartets, not even sure what it is
- nostrademons 2y agoAlso the traditional barbershop quartet for acapella. Interestingly, I like the 5-piece versions of all 3 of these: add a keyboardist to the rock band, a piano or harpsichord to the classical string or woodwind quartet, a female vocalist to the acapella group. Having two leads lets you do much more intricate countermelodies and harmonies.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoA string quartet consists of 4 tonally adjacent instruments, and is thus much more like 4 humans talking. A "classical" rock band consists of 4 utterly different instruments from a tonal perspective, and is thus nothing like 4 humans talking. Same thing for jazz - and its why you can have multiple instruments performing simultaneously and in ways that are not obviously connected to each other.