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Dr May's stomp secrets

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Aug 5, 2010 Updated Aug 6, 2010

Queen guitarist Brian May, CBE, PhD has revealed how his physics background gave him the idea for the “stomp-stomp-clap” portion of 'We Will Rock You'.

Let's allow Dr May to elucidate:

“Being a physicist, I said, ‘Suppose there were 1,000 people doing this; what would be happening?’ And I thought, ‘Well, you would be hearing them stamping. You would also be hearing a little bit of an effect, which is due to the distance that they are from you,’. So I put lots of individual repeats on them. Not an echo, but a single repeat at various distances… So you just feel like you're in the middle of a large number of people stamping and clapping.”

Now that we know how it's done...

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Brian Harold May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home-built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You" and "Fat Bottomed Girls". He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in...

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