c.f. surf music and spongebob's sound cues
Did our ancestors find God playing the electric guitar standing next to the ocean or something?
We do?
Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?
Submitted 7 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to [deleted]
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/268463
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
yeah, just listen to the electric guitar in spongebob
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
In SpongeBob’s case, it was super influenced by Ween, specifically the album The Mollusk. So just ask Dean and Gene what drugs they were on at the time.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
Interesting. I'm talking more about stuff like the (TV series's) ending theme and the "steel sting" though. Loop de loop doesn't particularly sound like it, though Ocean Man kinda does.
Strocker89@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
The sound engineer for the Beach boys was one of the first to develop the plate reverb sound, where he used a metal plate on the opposite side of the microphone and the sound waves would hit the microphone twice, once on their way by and once after bouncing, or reverberating, off of the steel plate. This is why we associate reverberated guitar with beach music, because beach music started with that sound.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 7 months ago
Why is this being downvoted?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It seems like some chord arrangement are natural (they were developed independently in different parts of the world and maybe be specifically well tuned to how our ears work) but pretty much everything else is cultural though sometimes you need to dig really deep to find the source of those cultural roots. Some are informed by animals but even those have mostly transitioned to cultural learnings - instruments associated with birds, horses, dogs may have some basis in their call but at this point they’re mostly spread by cultural learnings.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There’s so much variability in tonal systems, I don’t think we can make any kind of claim about “natural”.
Western Europeans are used to an 8 tone system that’s been even tempered. Move away from that at all and it sounds weird to most people. Even what most people think of as classical would sound odd to them in their original un-tempered forms with contemporary instruments.
Hell, most people don’t know what to make of minor chords, let alone something like pentatonic systems or even more “weird” to us.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
"Oh, Susana" has 5-tone verses. Or, did you mean temperament (which I assume means the "distance" between the tones) when you said "move away".
daltotron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_music
Seems like your question contains the answer that you seek
theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Also see Hawaiian slack-key for a super unique and culturally rich style
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
So you're saying that we associate the surf music sound with ocean because musicians decided to put surfing lyrics on that sound for whatever reason?
NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 7 months ago