Bounce! (poll)

Originally Posted by Captain_jovi

I gotta disagree here. Last Cigarette, Novocaine and Story of my life can all be sung over each other, almost. To me, Unbreakable is the very definition of bubble gum pop, considering that rhyming scheme. I dno if i'd say Bounce was commercially minded. They ran out of the gate with Everyday, a song that had every intent of being as poppy as possible. It tries to be all things to everyone, nearly every song off the album is remiscent of another popular song. Just my two cents. You've got the Billy Joel type songs, Creed-ish down tuned songs, It's my life clones. I dno. I think it's a good album, it just tried way too hard to be too many things.

Originally Posted by DryCounty

"Story of My Life" ain't and have never been in Drop-d It's standard tuning.

Originally Posted by JimBonJovi7

Richie's rhythm guitar is in Drop D. The only way for me to defend this fact is by mentioning I study music theory and giving you an insider's view on how that's done. If you are unsure of the tuning a band uses in the song you wish to tab, I suggest listening to the entire riff. You can narrow down your tuning possibilities if open strings that are played during a series of chords or if a lead player plays some notes that pull-off to an open string.

Occasoinally the chords used by a band introduce slight dissonance, suspended intervals, or major/minor thirds/sixths. For example, when playing a maj7 chord, you play the tonic (1st) and the leading note (7th) at the same time, which sounds unstable. Chords with added 2nds and 4ths will sound colorful, as will the thirds and sixths in a chord or interval. The best way to develop your ear to tab harder chords is to play songs that you know or have music for and use these songs to learn what certain intervals sound like. When your ear becomes trained to two note intervals, it makes tabbing a chord sequence much easier, especially for jazz or classically-influenced chord phrasing. I also found a pitch interval trainer link on one of the threads on this site. For beginners, I suggest playing with the interval trainer first:

http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id84_en.h tml

Then try the audio-first quizzing version:

http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id90_en.h tml

As for getting effects to sound like they do in the recording, this takes some patience. You need to first have a metronome or a watch to figure out the beats per minute (bpm) speed of the piece. If using a watch, just count beats by tapping your foot to the bass/drums/rhythm guitar and counting each tap for a minute (or a half minute if applicable). Usually an effect such as a tremelo or flanger will have a regeneration rate that is something like an exact multiple or 1/2 of the bpm in order to not sound out of place.

Originally Posted by JimBonJovi7

Sure there may be alot of different outside inspirations but hey, what's wrong with Creed? Mark Tremonti is one of the best guitarists around today!(Behind Richie) That's what makes it such a special record for me personally.

Originally Posted by Captain_jovi

Well, at that point it's subjective. It just seems that on Bounce, they tried way too hard to throw a million popular artists/styles at the wall and sees what sticks. The entire subject is more or less moot. If you like the album, more power to ya, no ones really right or wrong here.

Originally Posted by Kheprahotep

awww man, I'm too late to vote. Either way, I think I'm going to still step in here and put in a good word or two for Joey. Ok, so I know what some of you are going to say. It's the same old "lets overcome everything and make dreams come true" type of a Bon Jovi song and "we need a new moral" to make a song stand out. But that doesn't mean it's still not feel-good and uplifting!

Also, musicly I think it's one of the better ones. Granted I COULD just be gushing over the fact that there's so much of David in it , but really...it's got a very different feel than the rest of the album. They've said that Bounce is a guitar-driven album, I think this one really showed off the band as a whole. Not just Richie.

So yes. I vote for Joey!

Originally Posted by Captain_jovi

That's an interesting point! Bounce really could not have been made without David and you couldn't say the same thing about HAND.