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I saw an orchestra once or twice. We're talking about rock music here.

I've seen bigger bands but they suck in comparison.




Guessing from your response, you might not know of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band, which is fine. But now you do :)


Edit: I thought you linked to yet another famous band. People keep doing that... 99% of bands a normal person would see in normal life don't even have a wikipedia page.

However your link looks about jazz.

A common rock band is rarely good with more than 4 members because people lose unity and it's just technically harder and people are rarely professionally trained.


Honestly I wouldn't know anything about rock bands because I don't listen to it at all so you could be very right. I just responded because this thread was talking about string/barbershop quartets, which are almost definitely 4 parts because that is the minimum number of people required to make a 7th chord, and then again because you didn't know what a Big Band was, which I suppose is very understandable, but as somebody that grew up around and playing on them it's super foreign to me.


Ah. I was replying to "Most rock bands have more than one guitar". I don't listen to barbershop quartets, not even sure what it is




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