Knowing Where They're From

ssss

Posting Guidelines

GMC Forum > Discussion Boards > VINTAGE GMC > Bands and Guitarists

Knowing Where They're From, Identifying where bands are from

Kristofer Dahl View Member Profile	Feb 7 2011, 10:03 AM
Feb 7 2011, 10:03 AM	GMC Founder Posts: 17.206 Joined: 15-August 05 From: Stockholm, Sweden	Its not always easy to tell where a band is from. First check out Mate's new lesson, "Angus' Attitude Blues", and then post a reply to today's topic. Are you good at identifying where bands are from just from their music? Did you know where AC/DC was from? Cirse? You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Why you are better than you think

Fran View Member Profile	Feb 7 2011, 10:08 AM
Feb 7 2011, 10:08 AM	Learning Rock Star - Wiki Coordinator Posts: 8.340 Joined: 20-November 07 From: Spain	It can be hard to know it since most bands sing in English, so I always thing they are either Brit or American, when they can actually be from Sweden as was the case with Milencollin You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Guitars: Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster, Ibanez RG2570MZ, Epiphone SG G-400 Amp: Vox AC4TVH head + V112TV cab Effects: Vox Satchurator, Vox Time Machine, Dunlop CryBaby, Boss MT-2, Boss CE-5, Boss TU-2, Boss ME-70 Recording: Line-6 POD X3 + FBV-Express, Pandora PX5D GMC wants YOU to take part in our Guitar-Wikipedia! Have a good time reading great articles and writing your own with us in our GUITAR WIKI! Share your playing and get Pro-advice from our Instructors: Join REC

thefireball View Member Profile	Feb 7 2011, 03:17 PM
Feb 7 2011, 03:17 PM	Learning Roadie Posts: 4.520 Joined: 9-March 10 From: United States, Arkansas	I'm not. Thousand Foot Krutch is a Canadian band, and they don't really sound like it. It sounds more American for the most part. But most bands I listen to are American anyway, so it's a given for me. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- YouTube - A Place For Melodic Guitarists Instagram - Behind the Music Analyzed Within - My Christian Metal Band

Ben Higgins View Member Profile	Feb 7 2011, 03:42 PM
Feb 7 2011, 03:42 PM	Instructor Posts: 13.792 Joined: 11-March 10 From: England	If it's a metal band and they're good then they're probably from Germany, haha ! You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My Lessons My Youtube Channel My Band

superize View Member Profile	Feb 7 2011, 04:36 PM
Feb 7 2011, 04:36 PM	Ultimate Tone Guru Posts: 4.348 Joined: 26-July 07 From: Glommersträsk. Sweden	For me its impossible to hear You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My Gear Ibanez RG Jackson js30 warrior jackson rr24 Line 6 Spider III amp Line 6 pod xt live Washburn acoustic Youtube Account My bands Myspace

Gitarrero View Member Profile	Feb 7 2011, 08:08 PM
Feb 7 2011, 08:08 PM	Accomplished Rock Star Posts: 4.059 Joined: 24-June 08 From: Rottweil, Germany	Ben is right! Haha! I'm pretty good at identifying bands and where they come from...don't know why that is, must be some magic intuition You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Check my band project with fellow GMCer VilleFIN Facebook Youtube Soundcloud Twitter Instagram

del-4fr53e3 View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 12:05 AM
Feb 15 2011, 12:05 AM	Learning Tone Master Posts: 1.940 Joined: 18-January 09	Old bands are easier to distinguish, as they fall into patterns of music and sound. Old bands known for the Gothenburg sound as well, as they all went to the same studio (which produced the Gothenburg sound). I think new modern bands are pretty much impossible to distinguish, because Internet allows music to travel and inspire everyone all over the world. Also recording techniques and possibilities are much wider, and in many cases done by themselves. When the major record companies had a harder grip on the music that you ended up listening to, artists didn't go to that many different studios, and so you ended up getting these distinguishable styles. I think. Of course you can be extremely general and say that melodic death metal comes from Finland, more epic melodic metal comes from Sweden, Black Metal from Norway, overly-produced metal and speed metal from America, rock from England, power metal from Germany, "danseband" from Denmark, etc etc etc. But thats just intuitions based on whats popular in the various places, not a certain sound coming from the country itself. A Mongolian black metal band doesn't have to sound any different from Norwegian. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! This post has been edited by Sollesnes: Feb 15 2011, 12:09 AM

Rated Htr View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 04:45 PM
Feb 15 2011, 04:45 PM	Experienced Rock Star Posts: 2.119 Joined: 15-October 07 From: Leiria, Portugal	QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Feb 7 2011, 02:42 PM) If it's a metal band and they're good then they're probably from Germany, haha ! THAT'S A LIE! Probably from Finland or Sweden You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Currently Practicing Rhythm: Finnish Power Metal III: Nightwish Legato: Ben's Land Of Legato Alternate Picking: Alternate Picking Workout #5 Chords: Chord Melody Technique

The Farmer View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 08:52 PM
Feb 15 2011, 08:52 PM	GMC:er Posts: 66 Joined: 10-March 08 From: Scotland	Good topic. depends though if its the music or the vocalist we`re discussing here. Music can be generalised to black metal=Norway Death metal= Sweden, Syntheziser metal=Finland thrash metal=USA power metal= Germany etc.(jajaja I know there are other genres than metal) when it comes to the vocalist I personally think in many cases it gives away the origin of the bands. meaning that every language has somekind of difficulties pronouncing some english words, although I dont consider it a problem, and definately not when listening to death and black metal because you only hear every other word anyways although one thing bothers me, and thats when listening to rhapsody of fire(and a few other bands) theyr english is so far off that its not even english, I think they`d actually be better if they were to sing in italian....well just my 2 cents, no hard feelings! You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Mudbone View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 09:07 PM
Feb 15 2011, 09:07 PM	Learning Apprentice Player Posts: 1.750 Joined: 6-May 10 From: Charlotte, NC (residence)/Boston, MA (home) USA	I would've never thought Poets Of The Fall were from Finland, they have a very American sound on most of their songs. Also, wouldn't have guessed that Symphony X are from the US, because they have a very European sound. Recently it has become increasingly difficult to determine where a band originates from. I think because of the internet geographic barriers have been removed and music no longer develops in isolation. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- He who laughs last thinks slowest. "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens Gear: Guitars: Uncle Rufus' Twanger Classic Amps: Mississippi Boom Box Mojo: Hammer of Odin and a pair of Ox gonads Inspiration: Samuel Adams Boston Lager Zero to Hero: 1,387/10,000

Ben Higgins View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 09:15 PM
Feb 15 2011, 09:15 PM	Instructor Posts: 13.792 Joined: 11-March 10 From: England	QUOTE (Mudbone @ Feb 15 2011, 08:07 PM) I would've never thought Poets Of The Fall were from Finland, they have a very American sound on most of their songs. One thing I've noticed about Sweden and it may be similar for Finland and other areas of Scandinavia is that Swedes have an almost American accent when they speak English.. very American 'R' sounds if that makes sense ? I think a good example is when you hear Mattias Eklundh sing.. Btw, it's not a criticism, just an observation !! Don't take my donuts away............!!!!! You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My Lessons My Youtube Channel My Band

Mudbone View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 10:06 PM
Feb 15 2011, 10:06 PM	Learning Apprentice Player Posts: 1.750 Joined: 6-May 10 From: Charlotte, NC (residence)/Boston, MA (home) USA	QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Feb 15 2011, 03:15 PM) One thing I've noticed about Sweden and it may be similar for Finland and other areas of Scandinavia is that Swedes have an almost American accent when they speak English.. very American 'R' sounds if that makes sense ? I think a good example is when you hear Mattias Eklundh sing.. Btw, it's not a criticism, just an observation !! Don't take my donuts away............!!!!! I've noticed the same thing as well, I've also noticed that Dutch people also speak English with an American accent, or at least the ones I've spoken to. Once I actually asked a Dutchman why they have an American accent, and he said its because movies are never dubbed or subtitled into Dutch, and therefore they have no choice but to learn the American dialect Whats funny though, is that where I'm from in the US, New England, the letter "r" is almost non existent if its preceded by a vowel A good example of what it sounds like would be the way Peter Griffin from Family Guy talks This dude below actually does a pretty good job demonstrating the way a typical Bostonian speaks. Oh yeah mind the language... its kinda hard to find someone with a Boston accent who doesn't curse loool You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- He who laughs last thinks slowest. "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens Gear: Guitars: Uncle Rufus' Twanger Classic Amps: Mississippi Boom Box Mojo: Hammer of Odin and a pair of Ox gonads Inspiration: Samuel Adams Boston Lager Zero to Hero: 1,387/10,000

Ben Higgins View Member Profile	Feb 16 2011, 11:10 AM
Feb 16 2011, 11:10 AM	Instructor Posts: 13.792 Joined: 11-March 10 From: England	QUOTE (Mudbone @ Feb 15 2011, 09:06 PM) . Once I actually asked a Dutchman why they have an American accent, and he said its because movies are never dubbed or subtitled into Dutch, and therefore they have no choice but to learn the American dialect This dude below actually does a pretty good job demonstrating the way a typical Bostonian speaks. Oh yeah mind the language... its kinda hard to find someone with a Boston accent who doesn't curse loool Yeah my understanding of it was the same... even in Germany they say that it's easier for them to learn English from American speakers. Although imagining Europeans learning English with a Noo Yoik accent is funny !! That video's classic... although when he says 'Market Street' it sounds Australian to me You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My Lessons My Youtube Channel My Band

Ivan Milenkovic View Member Profile	Feb 26 2011, 02:00 AM
Feb 26 2011, 02:00 AM	Instructor Posts: 25.396 Joined: 20-November 07 From: Belgrade, Serbia	Hehe, funny that, I can't get used to ACDC being Australian band even today when I hear them talk You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE - Check out my GMC Profile and Lessons - (Please subscribe to my) YouTube Official Channel - Let's be connected through ! Facebook! :)

« Next Oldest · Bands and Guitarists · Next Newest »

Reply to this topic

Start new topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)

0 Members:

Blues Lick Of The Day!

Display Mode: Standard · Switch to: Linear+ · Switch to: Outline

Track this topic · Email this topic · Print this topic · Subscribe to this forum

Lo-Fi Version

Time is now: 6th March 2021 - 12:30 AM