I'm addressing this to you Richard, because I pick on Ardith too much. It
applies equally.
-=> Ardith Hinton wrote to Richard Webb <=-
AH> Hi, Richard! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:
AH> Improvisation -- what we do when the music falls down
RW> Also what we do when we're running out of songs to play
RW> and want to make them last longer.
AH> Yup. :-)
"Where's that confounded bridge?"
AH> Chords -- something organists play with one finger
RW> Depends on the organ I guess, but never was able to do that
RW> with a Hammond b-3 (and glad that wasn't available there.)
AH> I imagine you know more about such things than I
AH> do! The definitions were meant to be taken with a grain of
AH> salt, however, and this was the first in a group of three
AH> which IMHO made a rather nice parallelism... [chuckle].
MOD: Chords -- something accordionists play with one finger
PS: I just read your next post, so the MOD stands.
AH> Time Signatures -- trivial details often irrelevant
AH> to drummers
RW> WOrked with a few who resembled that remark . I
RW> endeavor not to.
RW> For drummers for whom that was true often dynamics are
RW> trivial as well.
We get all the blame, even if it *was* the base player/horn section!
AH> Some people may be attracted to certain instruments because
AH> they like making a lot of noise and/or because they believe
AH> (erroneously) that they won't have to work as hard as
AH> others do. I've known folks who took up drums in order to
AH> avoid learning to read music... I've known folks who took
AH> up the sax because they thought it would be easier than the
AH> clarinet... and I knew one who took up the trumpet because
AH> she thought it could play only three notes! As a teacher I
AH> was often asked which instrument was easiest. My response
AH> was "Whichever *you* want to play more than any other." I
AH> figured they'd be having such a good time it wouldn't seem
AH> like work at all. But whatever the reason(s) for their
AH> choice people use an instrument in a manner which reflects
AH> their personality.... :-))
I've mentioned here earlier to Ardith, that when I was a wee lad I saw
these guitar players spend more time tuning their instruments than playing
the ruddy songs. "Nope, I just want to play!" Then, I counted the lugs on
my snare drum and later realized I had to double that number and adjust
(mostly) all of those if my kick rattled the snares!!! !!! !!!
Boy, did I pick it wrong!
AH> Melody -- an ancient, now almost extinct art
AH> in song writing
RW> Oh yeah, that's for sure. Back when I was doing studio for
RW> hire I did a rap album for a young man. Never again!!!
AH> Uh-huh. Rap isn't my cup of tea either.... :-)
Smartest entertainers of our days! As mentioned, who needs to carry a tune
these days or even annunciate the "lyrics"? I've hated on the current state
of "popular" music for years, but George Clinton said it best. In a mumble,
"Whatever you say - and we tried - Rap music brought blacks and whites
together for better or worse." (Paraphrased)
RW> Then there was the alternative band, not bad melodies, some
RW> good words, but they wanted to run their vocals through
RW> these awful guitar stomp boxes and a guitar amp and have
RW> that track dominate over the actual capture of the singer's
RW> voice in the room.
I mentioned Shirley Manson last year, and that band Garbage fits that
description *exactly*. A couple of compatriots were extolling how they would
run the snare drum through a Sans Amp, and Fuzz Box the electric keys,
bla-bla-bla. Shirley has a great instrument, but the "producers" (Four or
five of them rounded out the rest of the lineup.) wet dream seemed to
obfuscate it every chance it could. Now, Shirley's no Patsy Kline but she
has plenty to offer. Had it not been for those boys that discovered her, we
would likely never know her name but, I'd still love to hear her do a
duet with The Holly Crow Trio.
... A backward poet writes inverse.
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