![]() ![]() In the chart above, I’m using the D/F# chord to imply the bass line. In the lesson video, I explain how you can play a rhythm part that fits the vibe of the track by using a strummed palm-muting technique.Įven though the accent of the bass is on the off-beat, the palm-muted hit on the beat allows us to get the feeling of the kick drum without sounding like a reggae rhythm. But, if you want to get the most out of learning this melody and be able to apply the techniques you’re learning in other situations in the future, it’s important to really understand how the strumming directions line up with the specific beats.Ĭounting out loud will help you understand what’s actually happening in the rhythm. You could just memorize the strumming pattern and play the melody based on how you remember it sounding. However, they are awesome tools to have at your disposal so are definitely worth taking the time to get right. These aren’t techniques you’ll use all the time. The off-beat nature of this melody and the particular way we are strumming are both a little unusual. It might feel a little silly, but counting out loud is really important in helping integrate our physical and intellectual understanding. When you’re practising this melody, take it slow and count out loud. In the lesson video, I explain how we want to pick the notes of this melody by rotating our wrist and using a strumming motion. When we're covering a song our goal is to capture the important elements of the song, not necessarily to try and play exactly what the guitar played in the single. In this lesson, we're going to use a few less common right-hand techniques to capture the dance music vibe of the single without having to use synths and loop pedals.īut he's done it differently in every performance. In the TikTok performance, Ed Sheeran relies on his loop pedal and a bass synth to fill out the song. The acoustic performance leaves out a lot of melodic hooks that can be heard on the album version. Both of these are very different from each other and the album version. His official acoustic video and this one for TikTok. Instead, you’ll hear a lot of synth bass and dance music inspired elements.Įd Sheeran has done a few live performances of this song so far. ![]() If you’re going to do a radical reworking of a pop hit, you have to really make it count, otherwise it’ll just fall flat.Ed Sheeran is known for performing with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal and there's usually a lot of guitar in the album versions of his tracks.īut, 'Bad Habits’ doesn't feature a lot of guitar on the studio version of the track. ![]() But the lack of commitment to mixing these two genres, in the end, left too much to be desired on ‘Bad Habits’. It’s a good moment for a release like this, and it’s no wonder that Sheeran wants to get in on the rock trend. ![]() Of course, alternative genres like pop-punk are having a real moment right now, with Olivia Rodrigo and WILLOW experimenting with the sound and Avril Lavigne making her grand return. If the energy from those screams at the end had been present throughout the whole track, we could be looking at something much more intriguing. They could have rebuilt the song from the ground up, giving us a completely different take on the most popular song of 2021. What’s most disappointing about this ‘alternative’ version of ‘Bad Habits’ is that it could have been taken so much further. Bring Me The Horizon have made some excellent pop-oriented records ( amo, anyone?) and Ed Sheeran has been playing with genres since the beginning of his career, especially on his No.6 Collaborations Project, which saw him team up with musicians across the musical spectrum Neither artist is a stranger to mixing things up a bit. Most of the song sounds exactly the same as the original, with a layer of electric guitars added in for a very slightly different effect. The problem here is that in ‘Bad Habits’, rock feels like an afterthought, and the whole thing sounds incomplete. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with two different genres coming together in fact, it’s an exciting trend that the music industry is welcoming more and more of, especially since the advent of TikTok. I don’t know what the game plan is here: a global pop star giving a bigger platform to alternative musicians? A play at beating out Encanto in the charts? Or just a bit of fun? Today, the unlikely pairing released a studio version of the genre mash-up, but the final result falls short in quality. Foo Fighters set to appear on Carpool Karaoke with James Cordon ![]()
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