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?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
