Listen to Tool

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I love Tool, but Tool also totally proves his point about the music not being nearly as complex as they make it sound.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Why is everyone talking about Tool? They use them, but it's not a King Crimson and polymeters situation.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Sure, throw in Gamelan tuning, just C (non tempered) and "microtones" while you're at it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Found the King Gizzard fan!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

"Things I'm not capable of are overrated."

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Someone needs to start listening to Tool.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Can't forget meshuggah

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Tool fans disagree brother

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'll just take your word on it...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

This seems WAY too niche for it to either be an unpopular or popular opinion. An unpopular opinion needs to be more accesible to most people than this.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ever listened to Tool?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Watch Tomas Haake from Meshuggah perform "Bleed"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Polymeter not polyrhythm.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

polyriddim

by Anonymous 2 years ago

not that song 💀

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes that exact song. The masterpiece of this century.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That song is about nested tuplets, the polyrhythm is just the result.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

polyriddim

by Anonymous 2 years ago

smoke on the water doesn't have smoke nor water.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Is fioana apples "hot knife" an example of this? What are examples?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I absolutely love hearing about drama in niche disciplines.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Based.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

OP needs some Car Bomb in his life right about now me thinks…

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'm a professional drummer and educator and could not agree more. They do sound cool given the right context, but generally there are better things to focus time and energy on.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Pass the goddamn butter

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So I'm going to assume that polyrhythms are something that you have been over exposed to. Which is understandable. There are a lot of people who have been exposed to music theory relatively recently thanks to the internet, and are now coming across techniques that seem novel. Polyrhythms being one example. They're easy to understand, trivial to implement digitally, and sound exotic. And so people experiment, which rarely creates something compelling, though that's besides the point. It's more that they are one more in a line of techniques to expand someone's musical vocabulary. If a composition was rhythmically exclusively a polyrhythm (e.g. an unvarying 4:5), then i would agree that it is necessarily not very complex. But of course an uninspired use of polyrhythms is uninspired - that's a tautology. However, it would be (necessarily) more complex than 4/4 or 4/5 in isolation. One could easily make the same argument that odd time signatures or tuplets are more overrated, as they are more common, and an entire piece composed purely of one of these techniques would be similarly "monotonous". Most of your points seem to be arguments against a lack of imagination in realising a technique, rather than an argument against the technique itself.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Bold statement to make, when you only know about western music.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Bold statement to make, when you assume things.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Polyrhythm is a main component of Latin-caribean music ( like salsa) and African music.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

As a music geek, I appreciate this lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Imo, it's fugues. I love fugues, I wish there were more of them. But the way some people speak about and over analyze them is atrocious

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Delay pedal, done.

by Anonymous 2 years ago