Bassist Wanted

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Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

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Popularity rank 1 #236. I have to hate MGMT

June 10, 2009

BRETT: Well, as of 3pm, MGMT has over 300,000 fans on Facebook. I have to hate them now.

BRETT: They're becoming mainstream. An anti-MGMT backlash is inevitable. It's like the STOCK MARKET. I gotta get out before the bubble bursts...

GREG: But why so SOON? Aren't you being overly cautious?
BRETT: You don't underSTAND... You weren't there in '99.

BRETT: ...when the bottom fell out of the RETRO SWING market...
GREG: Oh right... the Bryan Setzer "correction."

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Popularity rank 2 #233. Add more emotion

April 15, 2009

RONI: If that's what you want me to play, then say that!
JOHN: I DID say that!

RONI: No, you said, "add more emotion"! Who knows what that means!
JOHN: People! PEOPLE know what that means!

RONI: Isn't it much easier to remember that I play the root and fifth note as an arpeggio?

JOHN: Yeah, if you're a MIDI sequencer, Roni!
DAN: Wait, now I'm not even sure I was playing the same song as you...

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Popularity rank 3 #232. Hit more weird notes

April 13, 2009

RONI: You mean like... this?
JOHN: YES! Yeah. That.

RONI: OK, so when you say you want me to "hit more weird notes" in my solos, you actually want me to use chromatics to create melodic tension.
JOHN: I guess.

RONI: (sigh) This would be so much easier if you guys had a strong music theory background.
JOHN: Yeah...

JOHN: Or, I mean, if you DIDN'T.

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Popularity rank 4 #230. What’s that called?

April 9, 2009

COREY BROWN: Hey, you sounded great up there. What was that called?

RONI: Well, my guitar solo used a scale called the Hungarian Minor (or Harmonic Minor #4). It has a large number of half steps and a slightly ambiguous tonal center.

COREY BROWN: I just sort of meant, "What's the name of the song?"
RONI: Oh.

RONI: I have no idea.

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Popularity rank 5 #197. Garbled nonsense

January 14, 2009

GREG: Dude, your stereo's all messed up. It's playing three radio stations at once.

GREG: Some Beach Boys song, some Philip Glass album, and... like, an Afro-carribean World music station.
BRETT: Oh... yeah. Yeah, I know.

A pause.

GREG: You thought you were listening to Animal Collective, didn't you?
BRETT: Maybe.

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