1: An American Rock 'N Roll/Punk band founded by singer/lyricist Jim Nobodie in 2009. After about two years of playing with the first incarnation (the band on 404) it was shortly disbanded but later reformed in 2011 with a heavier sound and stronger line up. Now ABaCuS is poised to take the world by storm, leaving whatever stands in their way broken and mangled. With their "take no prisoners" attitude, they are surely a band to reckoned with. "What have we got to lose?" was Jim Nobodie's response when asked, "why?"
2: A German band formed in 1971 who made their breakthrough at the Germersheim rock festival, where ABACUS drew no less applause from the 300,000 visitors than PINK FLOYD, SANTANA or ELP who appeared on stage as well. Jürgen Wimpelberg plays keyboards, guitars, drum programming as well as handling vocal duties.
After a lengthy absence from the recording scene, "Fire Behind Bars" was released in 2001. They develop Pop melodies into a wide instrumental manner, with gorgeous neo-classical and symphonic sequences. In a vein near GENESIS, GREENSLADE or PINK FLOYD. ABACUS offers a modern and attractive Progressive Rock music.
3: A British glam rock band.
4: Spencer Stephenson, a young multi-instrumentalist and sample-based producer operating in Denton, TX. He plays drums/writes music with Denton band, Sleep Whale, of the Austin-based label Western Vinyl.
5. Abacus is powerviolence/hardcore punk from Columbia, South Carolina. At large, metal finally seems be opening its borders, shedding subgenre orthodoxy to chart new courses. At this point, nobody’s going to out-blitz Napalm Death’s 1985 LP Scum or outlast any of Sunn O)))’s intricate and maleficent quarter-hour drones. And with blasphemers like Deafheaven and Liturgy offering new on-ramps to the left-hand path, the old guard is increasingly old hat. But we needn’t ring the death knell for metal. Take, as an example, Columbia’s own Abacus, whose full-length debut, En Theory, mines generations of heavy music — from acrobatic math-rock to blunt-force hardcore — inviting heads to be both banged and scratched. Where the band’s 2013 EP skewed hardcore, volleying between crust-punk’s straight-ahead charge and the jagged, erratic eruptions of ‘90s hardcore, En Theory more fully synthesizes the band’s inspirations. On “Loyal Death,” a raw, grindcore blast beat rolls into a d-beat stomp that drives momentum behind a corkscrewing post-hardcore riff. The rhythm stays bullet-straight as guitars make jagged, short-blade cuts. “Nothing Is Sacred” closes the album with bleak black metal, riding a blast-beat barrage with tremolo-picked chords carving a spartan melody from the deafening din. Rather than a series of stylistic exercises stitching together disparate scraps, Abacus treats these elements as cut from the same cloth. The results are thrilling. The ominous acoustic passage “A Figment” flows gracefully into the angled blues-metal riff that opens “Bodies of Water.” It’s not a gambit or a gimmick — neither a prog-metal lark or a calculated break for sensitivity — but a new shading of familiar contours. In freeing itself to embrace all things heavy, without the burden of context, Abacus has produced a fresh, exciting and righteously heavy album. In such hands, metal remains alive and well.
Abacus is:
Josh Bumgarner - guitars
Alex Strickland - vocals
Paul Huff - percussion
Kevin Scruggs - bass
I Do I Do I Do I Do
Abacus Lyrics
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Make your choice but believe me
I love you
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
I can't conceal it
Don't you see?
Can't you feel it?
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
Oh, I've been dreaming through my lonely past
Now I've just made it
I found you at last
So come on
Now let's try it
I love you
Can't deny it
'Cause it's true
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
Oh, no hard feelings between you and me
If we can't make it
But just wait and see
The lyrics to Abba's song "I Do I Do I Do I Do" express the singer's love for their partner and their desire for them to reciprocate that love. The song starts with a sense of urgency as the singer tells their partner to choose between loving them or leaving them. This is a declaration of love that is anchored in honesty and vulnerability, encouraging the partner to make a decision about their relationship.
The second verse is a love confession where the singer expresses their love without any reservations. They cannot conceal their feelings and want the partner to recognize and feel the love too. The lyrics reveal that the singer has been dreaming of finding true love, and now that they have found it, they do not want to let go.
In the chorus, the repetition of "I do, I do, I do, I do, I do" signifies a commitment to their feelings, and the loving pledge is further illuminated by stating that their affection for the partner is true. In the bridge, the singer acknowledges that relationships can be challenging, but intimates that any challenge can be overcome as long as they are together.
Line by Line Meaning
Love me or leave me
Choose to love me or leave me, but whatever you do, believe me
Make your choice but believe me
Make your decision but have faith in my love
I love you
My feelings for you are of love
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
I fully commit myself to you
I can't conceal it
I cannot hide my love
Don't you see?
Do you not perceive my love?
Can't you feel it?
Are you incapable of sensing my affection?
Don't you too?
Can you not reciprocate my emotions?
Oh, I've been dreaming through my lonely past
I have been longing for love, in my lonely past
Now I've just made it
I have found love now
I found you at last
I finally discovered you
So come on
Let us move forward
Now let's try it
Let us try, to make this love work
I love you
My love for you is real
Can't deny it
I cannot deny my feelings
'Cause it's true
Because my emotions are genuine
Oh, no hard feelings between you and me
There are no negative emotions between us
If we can't make it
If our love cannot flourish
But just wait and see
Let us wait patiently and see
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: BENNY GORAN BROR ANDERSSON, BJOERN K. ULVAEUS, STIG ERIK LEOPOLD ANDERSON
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@D-me-dream-smp
This was a fabulous, easy to follow explanation of how to use an abacus. Using a 10 bead frame definitely made it easier to follow the the process for multiplication and division. The Japanese and Chinese abacus are based on the same principle it’s just the way assign value to the beads is slightly different (needing less beads). The Chinese abacus can use a hexadecimal base as well as a 10 base.
@freckhard
Very good video! I only recently found my interest and love for both the 10bit(bead) abacus as well as the soroban. You explained division very well, I like that. My brain on multiplication does to not count the beads on top from your left to right, but rather sets them in the first place and then I reduce them while multiplying from right to left, because in multiplication there can't be a rest left! So I stop once the top is "clear" and the bottom shows the result. With division I do it like you showed it, because then you can easily read how many times a number went into another. Maybe this helps someone, kudos!
@sugarbabyangel479
Thank you for your enthusiastic lesson. It's wonderful when teachers make math and learning fun!
@raelenecameron5828
Great information and easy to understand. Thank you.
@bondwrite
Thank you! SO helpful and informative.
@katiespaulding3303
This is great. I’m 40
Years old and never understood this! Thanks for the great lesson!
@monalouise8628
Thank you. This was very helpful!! You made it easy to understand!!!
@noobkin6995
This is a great tutorial, easy to understand
@user-iw7bk8oi9j
Great job !!! You made it easy to understand. Thank you !
@abdullahshakir5432
My gosh, I never knew an abacus was so powerful! Thank you for this tutorial!