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<0> oh holdon
<1> t
<2> I've been itching something ugly after a piano. Might have to buy a really nice electric or something soon.
<3> Sagoro: probably not. Too full of clock wraps.
<1> Viking667: Yeah, I doubt it too
<4> docfu: X32033 X02200
<1> Viking667: i'm sure if it could, though, it'd be lightening fast
<3> and godawfully ugly.
<1> Yeah
<2> siglite: Add a D, or an Am
<4> ThomasM: I put an Am in there and it sounded horrid.
<4> ThomasM: D sounded too happy for my taste.
<3> one intro I love, though it's not a guitar one; is Brothers In Arms.
<2> siglite: G Em D Am
<4> ThomasM: I like that
<2> It does sound a bit too well-rounded, though. I can hear the too-happy D you're talking about.
<4> I'm a minor whore.
<1> No, you're a major hwore
<5> oo a muppet chord
<2> Me, too.
<1> I spoke to several of your pimps last night and they told me so
<0> hmm
<0> almost got happy birthday
<4> they just mad cuz dey dee-n git day moeneey
<0> heh
<2> siglite: If I feel like it next year, I'll have to write down my cl***ical-guitar rendition of Greensleeves. It's ****ing beautiful. I picked it out, and gave up doing anything else on the guitar for six months as it all sounded like crap.
<4> ThomasM: that probably rocks
<4> ThomasM: to hell with writing it down, record it.
<2> siglite: I might do that. I was just thinking I couldn't really be bothered to write down all those little notes and the exact timing.
<4> ThomasM: that's what the tab publishers are for. To figure out what the hell we're playing.
<3> ThomasM: lol. Did you record it?
<3> "tab publishers"?
<0> hehehe
<1> So, I got this friend of mine who is a crack head...he was in california last week...and I picked him from the airport to take him home...he asks me to take him somewhere to pick up some crack....So, I agreed
<2> Nah. I will next year, when I brush up on it again in case I have to play it for Christmas.
<1> today, I got a call from his wife asking if we stopped somewhere before I brought him home
<0> hahaha
<2> Flamenco rolls and grace notes and high speed notes make for a wicked Greensleeves.
<4> Viking667: yeah, all those books on the shelf at the guitar store full of tab.
<0> Sagoro and?
<1> docfu: I said no
<3> I haven't been in a music store for many a year.
<0> i'm sorry is this supposed to be funny?
<3> Man, I wanna learn piano too
<4> ThomasM: man, flamenco kicks ***. I can't play it worth a crap, but god I love listening to it.
<0> siglite i like my bossa nova
<4> I lack any cl***ical fingerpicking skills at all.
<4> if I hold my ***cheeks just right I can properly fingerpick stairway.
<3> I *used* to have cl***ical fingering, now I got none.
<2> siglite: Get a cl***ical guitar and stick around Em and Am with a few complimentary chords, and nobody'll know the difference. You don't have to be all that good to play plateau-level flamenco. It's getting above the standard plateau that requires talent.
<1> docfu: He gets his crack/coke from a guy named Anthony...so, she asks me...cause my friend and I worked for the same compnay at one time..."did you remember anthony from $common_workplace?"
<2> siglite: Oh, well, NM. Stairway is pretty slow. :P
<4> see?
<4> NO cl***ical fingerpicking skills./
<1> docfu: Thankfully, there was a guy named anthony at $common_workplace...so, I said yead...he worked in the NOC
<2> siglite: Come play my banjo sometime. :P
<4> I've never even picked one up
<0> ThomasM the RJ is sent
<1> docfu: I mean...what do I say to one my best friend's wives? "yes, he's a crack head, just get over it"?
<0> Sagoro heh
<2> siglite: Playing the banjo is all about finding a way to fit some really neat **** into a roll--a pattern of hitting the strings that you modify just enough to make the song jump out.
<0> Sagoro why? something else happen?
<0> ThomasM oh i think the robjert johnson will take you to a whole new level of blues
<1> docfu: she'll divorce him and take the kids....
<4> ThomasM: yeah, I respect banjo players. We have lots of 'em around here, and some of 'em are flat amazing.
<1> docfu: that would kill him
<0> Sagoro ahh
<1> of course, I'm sure crack will too
<1> eventually
<2> siglite: Yep. I'm just starting. My dad could play dueling banjos all by himself. Don't think I'll ever get that good, though.
<4> ThomasM: dueling banjos is hard enough on guitar.
<4> the banjo is SMOKIN' in that tune.
<2> I just can't be bothered to breach the instrument plateau on any of my instruments save for brief forays to make what I hear come out of the instrument.
<1> bbiab
<4> you know
<4> people make some damned good music all the time with mediocre technical skills.
<2> It's only if I make up something truly amazing that I'll fight and fight to get all my little digits to move together _just_ right.
<3> who remembers J. J. Cale?
<4> and the fact that damned good music occurs so often with mediocre technical skills tells me it's all in the ear, not the finger.
<3> ahh. me just remembered the guy with Autism who shocked the hell out of a bar by playing Flight of the bumblebee on the piano...
<5> siglite: so true. it's why a piano is 'detuned' at the lower and upper ends to make it sound better
<3> XyZzY: mmmm. Wondered why that was.
<4> I mean, I consider myself a mediocre guitarist, at BEST. That's being generous. I completely lack any understanding of guitar/music theory (I'm working on that) but I hear so much **** on the radio and go "jeeze, how is this guy a star?"
<2> Lion-O: As a side note for your highlight history, I've found that with that weird firefox not loading a site issue, if I have another computer on the network query the site, then firefox will be able to open it. And it's only firefox that starts it.
<4> I've actually managed to make my fingers sore.
<5> Viking667: yup. if you tune it to exactly follow the mathematical formula for the notes it would not sound right
<2> siglite: Yeah. You see a lot of people go into drop-D and playing power chords and making lots and lots of money.
<4> ThomasM: yeah. I swear I detest drop D now, unless you're playing Canon in D.
<3> what's "drop D"?
<5> siglite: blame 'american idol' and other such crappola
<2> Viking667: The bottom note tuned down a whole step.
<3> ah.
<4> when I hear drop D, the first thing that goes through my head is "****ing *****."
<2> siglite: I use it for dueling banjos on the guitar, for that little "Yankee Doodle" jump that sounds so much better at the very bottom of the baseline.
<4> "****ing *****" is usually followed by something like "Derek Trucks NEVER drop D tunes."
<0> i could probably do dueling banjos on a b*** ok
<0> but this backpacker is too hard for now
<2> siglite: So you take guitar cl***es? Or at least have an instructor or something?
<4> ThomasM: yeah, I got me a berkely school of music edumucated guitar teacher to learn me sum theory (and a little technical stuff along the way)
<2> siglite: ****ing sweet.
<4> you should hear this guy.
<4> incredible.
<4> on anything with strings, really.
<4> the cool thing is, I have him teaching my kid too.
<4> we go in for an hour a week, I get the first half hour, the boy gets the second.
<0> how old is your kid?
<4> 9
<3> guess being married to someone who hates music being practiced isn't the best thing for developing skills.
<2> siglite: I'd taken a few months of those by-the-numbers piano lessons when I was little (and rather disliked it), and did woodwinds in the school band. When I lived with my grandmother for a few months after 7th grade, she looked at me and knew my math/computer history, and taught me to play heavy Beethoven amidst strong lessons in music theory.
<0> thomasM get that mp3?
<4> I got him this super cool little 3/4 lenght johnson strat
<3> ThomasM: lol.
<2> siglite: The next time I spent time with her, she grabbed a simple chord at the top melody book and made me make up my own harmonies for everything I played.
<3> docfu: what mp3?
<0> viking667 some robert johnson
<2> siglite: Music theory is teh rox0r. :)
<3> ah.
<2> docfu: Oi. Yeah, got it. Downloading now.
<4> ThomasM: yeah, that's cool. I can improv fine in major, minor, and pentatonics, but I'm clueless on how to use the various modes, and some of the less common scales. If I can wrap my head around modes, I might get good or something.
<3> First time I came across pentatonic was with J.M.Jarre's China album...
<3> fell in love with it.
<4> my wife is taking music 101 in college right now, and she's asking me theory questions.
<4> and I'm like ****... uh...
<2> siglite: Well, your improv sounds a ways above mine. I can screw around a bit in pentatonics (because there are so few notes), and can sit in a minor mode and play for hours, but most of my improv isn't all that great. Somewhere in there I'll find something beautiful and explore it for a few days, and then drop it by the wayside if it doesn't grow.
<4> had to get out a piece of paper, and map out four scales... whole-step whole-step half step, whole-step whole-step half-step
<2> Getting down into a good minor-chord and a few major highlights groove is great for fingerpicking. You can have at it, playing tunes against themselves and experimenting until your fingers burn.
<4> I can outright shred on pentatonics and the major scale.
<4> what I need is for my kid to get good enough to play rythm for me :)
<2> siglite: Sounds like you got him a good teacher.
<4> where I can just have him run through chord progressoins
<4> and I can play around those
<3> brb. the wife wants her feet rubbed.
<4> damn
<5> My major instument is my voice. given any person, I can emulate thier singing style
<4> my wife would be SOL.
<3> I get grumpy wife if I don't.
<2> That was awesome when I finally got good enough to keep up with my Dad, at least knowing which chord switch was probably coming. He's a bluegr*** guy, and it gets pretty predictable except in those little spots it isn't and you go nuts.
<3> Mind you, I still have to be careful.
<2> XyZzY: Nice. I can't sing worth ****. I've tried to train it some, but it just isn't happening.
<4> ThomasM: more predictable than jazz. Good god jazz guitarists have some defective mental switch.
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