2012年6月12日 · I've been playing with D-G-C-F-A-E (D-standard with a high E) for about 6 months now, absolutely love it. Open chords sound awesome.

2015年5月11日 · Math Rock is a genre that emerged in the late 80's and that was influenced by both the intricacies of progressive and avant-garde rock - King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Henry Cow - and 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage.

2017年8月18日 · Post-rock: an umbrella term to describe the mostly instrumental music genre that uses rock instrumentation but disregards typical “rock” song structure. For post-rock music discussion, discovery, news, reviews, and your favorite tracks and videos.

2023年4月18日 · It's true that lots of math rock bands also make use of this sound but many don't, and a lot of the bands which lean heavily into tapping riffs stay consistently in 4/4. The musicianship might be noteworthy but the rhythms aren't, so it seems ill-fitting to categorize this music as math rock instead of a more fitting genre (usually midwest emo ...

Math rock bands typically explore a variety of styles, incorporating elements from progressive rock, post-rock, and experimental rock. Prominent features include the emphasis on instrumental skills, angular guitar riffs, and a tendency to challenge traditional song structures.

2022年7月5日 · Post-rock: an umbrella term to describe the mostly instrumental music genre that uses rock instrumentation but disregards typical “rock” song structure. For post-rock music discussion, discovery, news, reviews, and your favorite tracks and videos.

The “math” part refers to odd time signatures. The whole song is tappy taps, but stays in 4/4? Probably not math rock. There’s no tappy taps but the main riff is a measure of 7/8 followed by a measure of 4/4 and then back to 7/8? Probably math rock. The whole song is tappy taps and changing time signatures? Undoubtably math rock.

Math rock can be very angular and include pretty dissonant sections. Again, casual music fans are used to pretty consonant harmonically simple songs. I’m not shitting on pop music. There’s a lot of good pop. But the very defining features of math rock as a meta-genre will keep it from being a mainstream genre. And that’s okay.

Math Rock is an experimental-based genre styled by its complex rhythm and mathematically influenced form. Bands in this genre include Don Caballero , King Crimson , Slint , and more. As a fan of Art-Rock and Experimental music myself, I find this genre very interesting.

2015年7月8日 · gonna be contrarian here and say it's really not all about the compression pedals. they're useful in the studio to smooth out your tone but live it can be hard to tell a difference unless you're squashing the fuck out of your signal.