From one of the guys in our community band: :-)


Improvisation -- what we do when the music falls down

Chords -- something organists play with one finger

Discords -- something organists play with two fingers

Suspended Chords -- useful for lynching the vocalist

Time Signatures -- trivial details often irrelevant to drummers

Melody -- an ancient, now almost extinct art in song writing




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Hi, Richard! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

Improvisation -- what we do when the music falls down

Also what we do when we're running out of songs to play
and want to make them last longer.

Yup. :-)

Chords -- something organists play with one finger

Depends on the organ I guess, but never was able to do that
with a Hammond b-3 (and glad that wasn't available there.)

I imagine you know more about such things than I do! The definitions
were meant to be taken with a grain of salt, however, and this was the first in
a group of three which IMHO made a rather nice parallelism... [chuckle].

Time Signatures -- trivial details often irrelevant
to drummers

WOrked with a few who resembled that remark <grin>. I
endeavor not to.

For drummers for whom that was true often dynamics are
trivial as well.

Some people may be attracted to certain instruments because they like
making a lot of noise and/or because they believe (erroneously) that they won't
have to work as hard as others do. I've known folks who took up drums in order
to avoid learning to read music... I've known folks who took up the sax because
they thought it would be easier than the clarinet... and I knew one who took up
the trumpet because she thought it could play only three notes! As a teacher I
was often asked which instrument was easiest. My response was "Whichever *you*
want to play more than any other." I figured they'd be having such a good time
it wouldn't seem like work at all. But whatever the reason(s) for their choice
people use an instrument in a manner which reflects their personality.... :-))

Melody -- an ancient, now almost extinct art
in song writing

Oh yeah, that's for sure. Back when I was doing studio for
hire I did a rap album for a young man. Never again!!!

Uh-huh. Rap isn't my cup of tea either.... :-)

Then there was the alternative band, not bad melodies, some
good words, but they wanted to run their vocals through
these awful guitar stomp boxes and a guitar amp and have
that track dominate over the actual capture of the singer's
voice in the room. <yech!>

I'm reminded here of the younger teens who rehearsed in a back yard a
few doors down the street when I was a music student. They obviously wanted to
make an impression... and they got a bit carried away with amplifiers too. ;-)




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Hi, James! Recently you wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

I'm addressing this to you Richard, because I pick on
Ardith too much. It applies equally.

I always wanted a little brother & I understand teasing Sis goes with
the territory, but I'm glad to see you & Richard exchanging messages. :-)

Chords -- something organists play with one finger

Depends on the organ I guess, but never was able to do that
with a Hammond b-3 (and glad that wasn't available there.)

I imagine you know more about such things than I do! The
definitions were meant to be taken with a grain of salt,
however, and this was the first in a group of three
which IMHO made a rather nice parallelism... [chuckle].

MOD: Chords -- something accordionists play with one finger

Yes, that would work. But Richard also brought up an important point
which I almost missed until I'd made some further enquiries. Serious musicians
who do keyboards professionally are in a very different category from the "play
by numbers" crowd. They tend to use the Hammond B3 whereas Grandma Potts would
use a Hammond "S" series chord organ or something similar... i.e. probably what
the majority of non-musicians think of as an "organ" nowadays.

A chord organ can produce a limited repertoire of chords at the touch
of a button in much the same way as the electronic keyboard which Nora uses for
music therapy can produce a few artificial "boom-chick-chick" percussion sounds
on demand. In this household there is no demand. It's more beneficial for her
& more satisfying for us if she uses her left hand as best she can right now...
and remains motivated to improve. AFAIC folks like you & Richard needn't worry
about being replaced by electronic substitutes, but many people seem to believe
any fool can play keyboards or sing or play drums or whatever. I'm inclined to
think the author of these jokes is taking a sly dig at wannabe musicians. :-))

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

In any case, I agree that it's worth repeating... [chuckle].




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Ardith,

Time Signatures -- trivial details often irrelevant to drummers

Or like the T-shirt with funky time signatures...noting "these are
difficult times". <G>

Daryl

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Ardith,

Uh-huh. Rap isn't my cup of tea either.... :-)

Or as Shotgun Red noted "Want to know what I think of Rap?? Put a C in
front of it!!". To me, Rap is for those who never learned how to sing...especially since most I hear is loaded with vulgar language.

Daryl

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