It’s time for QRIMOLE, the series where readers ask Kpopalypse questions! Let’s take a look at the mailbag for the last month!
Why do “singers” yap so much at kpop concerts?
Because k-pop thrives on building the parasocial connection between the performer and the fan, and long talk breaks really help with that. Also, they can’t sing, so a long talk break gives them a chance to do something they’re better at.
U always talk abt how none of the idols can sing or have stage presence. What according to u is stage presence?? And could u give examples of singers who do have it? And examples of idols who can actually sing
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, who is honestly a master class in stage presence for rock musicians, talks about it briefly at the start of this video.
I’ll tackle this topic in depth more at some point.
I don’t want to give examples of idols who can sing because it will get clipped out of context and I don’t want to encourage the usual lame jostling for position that idol fans do. Let’s not play into the cult. Everyone will just miss the point.
Have you seen the picture of Boram at the girls’ wedding last year? It looks like what happened between her and the remaining members has already been mended, not Soyeon tho (I guess she’s the Rachel Kim of the group). Now that Boram is closer to her 40s, is her face closer to how your mother looked when you were a child?
Actually Boram looked more like my mother when she was younger. The Kpopalypse family ages well!
Oppar, can you do a chord chart for f(x) – 4 Walls? There’re so many chord extensions from what I hear – I know it’s some variation of C6-Bm7-B7-E4 that repeats, but the voicings I’ve tried on guitar don’t match. Thanks!
Since you’re a guitarist I’ll do a loose tab of how I would arrange this for solo guitar and this may not be 100% (because Rhodes is Rhodes) but this is what I’m hearing and how I’d do it:
Chorus is essentially this, in whatever method you think works. The important part is the open B string on every single chord. You can change the voicings however you want but if you don’t keep that B in there somehow in every chord as either an open string or 4th fret G string, it will sound fishy. I’d voice it in this kind of way to deliberately make it sound as non-jazzy as possible. It does feel substantially different, it will sound better if you’re playing with others, or along to a backing.
Verse is the same thing, but alternating between the above, and this:
That’s basically it. There’s some sections where the timings change, and different chords get allocated different bar lengths but it’s all more or less this. Don’t ask me what the Rhodes is doing in the intro though, might be a variation of the above but unsure, block Rhodes chords out of context of a bassline are so hard for me to hear. I blame standing next to drum cymbals for a large chunk of my life.
Oh and the “horse girl” breakdown from 2:17, I’d forget what I said earlier and go full jazz and voice like this:
Going up high on the guitar here to try and get that Rhodes feel plus some contrast. The pedal B note no longer important here. You could voice these chords differently if you wanted. Have fun!
Fairly bad look for her?
Let’s keep these type of questions out of QRIMOLE because I answer about 50 questions exactly like this every week on my ask thingy and another 50 every livestream. If you’re not sick of them yet, too bad because I am. I replaced your link with something more wholesome. There were a few questions along these lines in QRIMOLE this month and I deleted most of them.
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