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Old 06-16-2016, 03:22 PM   #120 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman View Post
Like the guitar in the intro to this.



How each strum drags on very very shortly, quickly fading way. Most of the insrtuments tend to use that sound in most of the alkternative rock I've heard. But there's also the tone, a somewhat controlled emotional tone, as if the emotion was more of a musical insturment rather than something used to relate to the audience (not that it doesn't).
I would call them...sustained notes? Still doesn't link together bands like The White Stripes, Smashing Pumpkins, and Blink-182, who are all pointedly alternative bands, so don't try to deny that they are.

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I don't think I'll ever understand your method of genre classification. We're classifying bands off of one sound now in a song now? Weird.
I'm not even sure if he understands it.
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