Mar 2, 2011
Elton John writes a song on the spot with an oven manual for lyrics
He starts out slow and ends strong…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GuI4UUZrmw
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Mar 2, 2011
He starts out slow and ends strong…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GuI4UUZrmw
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White audience… they clapped on 1 and 3.
they clapped with the appropriate time signature…. 4/4 isn’t universal
Whether they clapped with the appropriate time signature or not, (which they clearly did – they’re not going to clap in 3 are they), Nic’s point was that, for the part in which they were clapping, it would be more stylistically appropriate to clap on the the off-beats, or 2 and 4. The point here is that white people do not, generally speaking, inherentally clap on 2 and 4, because it is not in their culture to do so, and have not been shown that in this style of music, derived from a black/African American culture, to clap on 2 and 4. Therefore, your point about 4/4, which is in fact partly correct, (for many cultures have no such direct concept of 4/4 e.g. Western Indian Classical music), is completely irrelevent. However the idea of 4 (or 2, or 8, or any other equivalent) beats in a bar, or of such a feel, certainly does exist throughout the world.
Not all “white people” clap on 1 and 3. From my experience, it seems to be more of a western thing (as in western hemisphere, not as in cowboys). When I go to Russia, we all inevitably wind up clapping on EVERY beat during worship by the middle of the week because we start out with the Americans and Western Europeans clapping on 1 and 3 and the Russians clapping on 2 and 4 and then everybody remembers, “Oh, they clap funny,” so we all try to compensate for each other and it just turns into a clap-tastic disaster.
Yes sorry, that would be more correct.
What is this from? Who is the actor that gave him the directions?
Ozzy should have joined in
oh, richard e. grant….got distracted by the big blonde & then ozzy…
That’s talent.