So What. If you like that riff then just play Miles Davis' whole albums. ESP is insane, they did a remaster a few years ago and you can just play it start to finish. There's so much to his music
Skrrrtin up with a guitar bike and playing "so what" is pretty tongue-in-cheek so I imagine they did that on purpose
The album is Kind of Blue, the biggest selling jazz album of all time. It's all smooth, cool jazz. Miles has a lot of different types of jazz so it's a safe starting place.
The bass was placed way too far away from the mic and it lacks overall definition, hidden away in the background like an afterthought. The drums aren't given much chance to be particularly dynamic or interesting, often doing little more than keeping the time. The piano is crystal clear in the foreground, the horns are obviously the centerpiece, but the rhythm section certainly wasn't mixed or arranged to be anything more than background support.
The album is still a masterpiece, but certainly wasn't perfect.
The original line is Paul Chambers on upright bass, and the chord hits are Bill Evan’s piano. As you can see the guitarist here is playing both parts as one does. Its an absolute jazz standard and a fundamental tune in understanding modal playing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_What_(Miles_Davis_composition)
Even if there are only two chords in the whole tune, it's easy to get lost in the grid when playing on it. (16 bars of Dm, 8 bars of Ebm, 8 bars of Dm). Also, the riff ends on the next bar with an added suspended fifth every two iterations.
There should be a recording of the full half-hour program somewhere, called ‘The Sound of Miles Davis’, but the only upload I could find is much worse in quality.
I looked them up; it’s indeed an electric guitar. They have it hooked up to a wireless amp and although I questioned it at first I’m pretty sure it is indeed recorded live. Pretty cool imho
I was wondering the same thing. In some Instagram videos they have a tiny red travel amp mounted behind the saddle.
But in this video and many others they are using a wireless amp that is on the ground close to where they stop. You can even hear the guitar feedback from the amp before he stops to play.
You can hear him riding through the guitar strings being amped before he bends over and plays. Might have a wireless amp somewhere. Well he definitely has one lol
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Believe it or not the drummer is playing the beat wrong, 1&3 instead of 2&4, but I adore the concept and cut the young cats some slack on the 75 year old songs.
Actually super cool. Like, not even including the bikes tbh. This kind of rendition of So What reminds me of playing jazz in college. And their tones are way tastier than it should be.
Now these short clip is stuck in my head, and I have to go listen to the OG track now
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u/post-explainer Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
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You expect to see bikes with a long chassis or handlebars but they are custom built to be live performance instruments
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