Off Beat Clapping at Concerts

[CousinLarry]

This shit is an epidemic. If you can't clap on beat just stop. Half of Bill Withers Live record is ruined by mutherfuckers clapping off beat. I have been to so many concerts where people cannot stay on beat even with a drummer to follow. It drives me crazy.

 

[fredfades]

haha

 

[bassie]

Yes, also fools shouting lyrics (half of them wrong and/or in a terrible voice) on top of the stage act also has to be stopped.
Hey, Kyle from Campus Pub! I didn't pay to listen to you ruin my favourite songs.

 

[CousinLarry]

haha

Yes, I saw Allison Krauss last night. Not the kind of show I usually go to, but my mother in law got us tickets and wanted us to go with her and a good family friend. Their more blue grass style stuff was really good, but people kept trying to clap along and it sounded like rain on a tin roof.

 

[DrJoel]

Yes, I saw Allison Krauss last night. Not the kind of show I usually go to, but my mother in law got us tickets and wanted us to go with her and a good family friend. Their more blue grass style stuff was really good, but people kept trying to clap along and it sounded like rain on a tin roof.

Does Jerry Douglass still play in her band? He is pretty damn good.

 

[CousinLarry]

Yes, I saw Allison Krauss last night. Not the kind of show I usually go to, but my mother in law got us tickets and wanted us to go with her and a good family friend. Their more blue grass style stuff was really good, but people kept trying to clap along and it sounded like rain on a tin roof.

Does Jerry Douglass still play in her band? He is pretty damn good.
Yes he was there and he killed it on the dobro. They gave him a 15 minute solo set that was the highlight of the show.

 

[pickwick33]

Yes, also fools shouting lyrics (half of them wrong and/or in a terrible voice) on top of the stage act also has to be stopped.
Hey, Kyle from Campus Pub! I didn't pay to listen to you ruin my favourite songs.

Thatr don't bother me as much, specially since they're usually drowned out by the onstage artist singing through a PA. But the offbeat clapping is a botheration.

Oddest place to find people clapping off-time: that Youtube clip of (of all people) Tai Zonday on Jimmy Kimmel's show. Okay, the beat ain't that pronounced in the song, thus making it a bit of a struggle to find, but even so, why bother to clap in the first place?

 

[Mjukis]

I saw Capleton live last saturday in Sweden - need I say the off-beat clapping was a botheration? He did some a capella stuff and after a while I think even he was confused about the tempo of the song.

 

[jaymack]

yeah that shit is annoying. its usually dorky older white people that have no rhythm.

i like that adam sandler skit where hes singin the hanukkah song, and he's like, stop clapping, your fuckin me up.

 

[CousinLarry]

its usually dorky older white people that have no rhythm.

I was going to say this but I feared it would become a race thread.

 

[bassie]

Yes, also fools shouting lyrics (half of them wrong and/or in a terrible voice) on top of the stage act also has to be stopped.
Hey, Kyle from Campus Pub! I didn't pay to listen to you ruin my favourite songs.

Thatr don't bother me as much, specially since they're usually drowned out by the onstage artist singing through a PA.

No such luck at smaller shows and the like - especially if (usually) dude is right next to or behind you.

Singing crowds can make a show really fun and exciting - when they know the words, when it's all in unison and they step up when they're given the mic - but it takes one drunk loudmouth rockstar wannabe to ruin an otherwise good show.

 

[Mjukis]

its usually dorky older white people that have no rhythm.

I was going to say this but I feared it would become a race thread.
They DO have rhythm - it's just that any kind of syncopation, backbeat, groove or swing confuses them.

 

[CousinLarry]

its usually dorky older white people that have no rhythm.

I was going to say this but I feared it would become a race thread.
They DO have rhythm - it's just that any kind of syncopation, backbeat, groove or swing confuses them.

White people clapping is like some free jazz shit.

 

[white_tea]

its usually dorky older white people that have no rhythm.

I was once at a club and off in this sideroom, four middle-aged white dudes were having a hoedown of sorts, attempting to clap along to the house music from the other room. One dude would clap at the exact time the other dude wasn't clapping while two other dudes clapped a split second after that. It created the most bizarre time signature that buggles my mind to this day.

 

[Pony]

This shit is an epidemic. If you can't clap on beat just stop. Half of Bill Withers Live record is ruined by mutherfuckers clapping off beat. I have been to so many concerts where people cannot stay on beat even with a drummer to follow. It drives me crazy.

I was thinking the same thing at the last few shows I've been to, that shit has GOT TO STOP! I don't understand how the drummers can even stay on beat with that noise going on. I remember when the crowd was leaning behind the beat I tried to bring them back by clapping on time extra loud, didn't work, there's no saving the mob.

I'm willing to stop clapping at concerts if all white people (sorry) follow suit.

 

[Pony]

White people clapping is like some free jazz shit.

I think most of the violators try and clap to the bassline, or the kick drum or some shit.

 

[mallard]

White people clapping is like some free jazz shit.

hahaha

i always imagined that in situations with a bigger crowd, like the bill withers live, that some of the offbeatedness could be attributed to sound travel speeds

keeping this in mind makes it easier to listen to. cause you know soul recognize soul, but i do not want to hear 2's and 4's manifested from arrhythmic mind gardens

 

[Pony]

How about the one guy that always trys to steal the show by throwing in some extra claps. Nobody cares about your hand clap skills home brew.

 

[mallard]

How about the one guy that always trys to steal the show by throwing in some extra claps. Nobody cares about your hand clap skills homie brew.

no

you know. this would be perfectly fine with me if dudes did it on their own accord. if someone's moving and having a real good time, i'm not mad at what some might perceive as superfluous claps. it's only when you look over at him and you realize he's somehow making eye contact with you along with everybody else in the room that it becomes uncomfortable. and he's trying his best to relay to you the fact he's having a great time, but can only manage a half smile because his ass is too tired from banging his hands together.

 

[markus71]

its usually dorky older white people that have no rhythm.

I was once at a club and off in this sideroom, four middle-aged white dudes were having a hoedown of sorts, attempting to clap along to the house music from the other room. One dude would clap at the exact time the other dude wasn't clapping while two other dudes clapped a split second after that. It created the most bizarre time signature that buggles my mind to this day.
That's called polyrhythmics my friend