My thinking is: the ear can pick up certain frequencies, and music is a way of organising them.
So bass frequencies: what are they like?
I wanted to show the bass guitar, electric and the double bass as acoustic, but there are lots of bass tones.
I can't pick out different harmonies in music
Most people (judging by sales) don't listen to music. They listen to either the lyrics or the melodies.
The pulse behind can go pump pump pump pump, that's fine. Listening to music involves concentration and luck--luck such that you have the correctly open ears to appreciate (for good or ill) what, acoustically, is happening.
So I'm asking: can you hear the bass? Can you hear what its doing? In particular, the Sonny Rollins piece. Can you hear that Sonny is playing the sax melody, and that behind him and with him are the bass and the drums? If you can hear that, it's just words, concentrate on the music (if you like it!) But that's an honest question: can you hear that the sax is doing one thing and the bass is doing something else, and that they are complementing each other by making sounds that you find sonorous? Honest question! By sonorous I mean "soothing to the ear" such that the sounds bring you peace and calm--and other emotions--that the sounds create emotions, and the more you can individuate and the more you understand, the wider your range.
Heh!
Hope that makes some sense! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Victor Wooten is awesome, how does he do that?! Bass and drums together work well for me, both with lots of space and with more rock to it.
When the third sound comes in I find it harder because the higher frequencies on sax and guitar drown out the bass for me. If I concentrate really hard I can pick out the bass and drums for a few seconds at a time - easier when the clip moves to show those instruments.
If I were in a club I would switch my hearing aid off and just feel the bass and drums and cut out the sound of the music/tune/lyrics whatever. I guess when I just listen (I don't get to feel the bass through my body when it is just pumping into my ear through the loop but otherwise I can't really 'hear' anything) the higher frequencies are the ones I can hear better compared to the lower ones. I don't hear it all equally to be able to distinguish the different sounds. Easier to hear the bass through the sax cos there are more spaces perhaps. Sonorous for sure yeah!
But wow, thanks. What an ear opener! Ad astra per aspera
If you like bass and drums then dub reggae from the seventies should be enjoyable. Ceebs knows more about that than me. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Maybe you can try to increase bass volume on your computer, see if it makes the bass line easier to follow. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
I can't see a base volume setting on here, certainly not for use watching you tube. I can manipulate that with MP3s though and it does help. Ad astra per aspera
