https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zl6kHDqbc
I'm trying to get more familliar with Mexican regional music because there's a bit of a crossover from some Mexican folk music and the country music I play. Anyway, I stumbled onto this documentary about an amazing regional style with heavy fiddle-based focus and a beautiful singing style.
There's a clip in there when a fiddler with a slight Mexican accent describes the tone of his playing as "rusty" (he also says "I don't know how you'd say that in English", but I'm pretty that's because there's not actually an English word for that tone). He was describing (I think) digging into the strings with the bow for that more scrapey tone we get in a bunch of fiddle styles around the world.
I had one of those moments last night where I serendipitously stumbled upon a genre of music I had never heard before (don't you love that?), son Huasteco or Huapango from Mexico. It's amazing stuff.
Each song in this style has essentially the same backbone of rhythm, but it seems so complex to me. The three instruments all play some part of the rhythm (the fiddle is playing all over the place and pushing it with counter rhythms) and since this is music to be danced to, it sounds most complete when the down beats are stomped by the dancers.
I know it's some variant of 6/8 and 3/4 times, but I'd love to have it "drawn out" for me and deconstructed so I can finally wrap my 4/4-playing head around it. Can someone help me out and explain the rhythms to me? Moments like these make me wish I paid more attention to my music theory classes...
I'll post some links here of examples: El Querreque
This version of El Querreque doesn't seem to have the same traditional backing of Huapango rhythms and seems easier to figure but not sure how it compares to trad
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.
I won't be doing that today!
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
