Old news I'm sure. But practice in the dark with the red light of a metronome.
Always practice your D6 chops with a strobe light. Believe me if you want to groove it will help tremendously, especially with the white guys.
Practice In the Dark
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Re: Practice In the Dark
timing is as essential as in humor...the last thing they don't miss more than usual, but the timing is another thingscope4live wrote: especially with the white guys.
Back in those days I gave bass lessons at home.
I never got someone on the record who was able to play, say, Stir it up by Bob Marley (three chords, yet melodic, ideal for starters to show the principals of harmony
).At the same time they wanted me to figure out the latest bass solo on the new record of Metallica or something.
I hated that, as it's offen not more than freaking out on the blues scale with every possible note in between, preferrable as fast as possible, without too much attention to sound and groove.
Anyway, tho miserable, they got that right after a few weeks, but that short solo used more notes than the bass part of that whole Stirr it up song
Let alone a (black) blues song, they called it simple but were not able to let it dance
An Aces shuffle (famous accombining band)? forget it
Saw old studio recordings of Howlin Wolf in I mean the main radio studios in Köln/Germany, 1957 or something, lately.
One man, one guitar, one crutch and one mike, that was all.
Two hundred fifty pounds of joy
Blues is dance, like reggea is
Timing it is, even in elektronic music, but that's a differend story
I couldn't agree more. I grew up listening to old jazz and blues guys on the Mississippi River. I always wanted to be one of them. Therefore the drive to sucseed was started early on. I shall include a little bit of solo blues on an upright when I post my music in December. I have no excuses now, I've commited myself , and with Dr. GaryB's help I will have Cubase 4 in two weeks.
Possibly my bros in Europe will understand why I'm such an idiot with computers. I spend all of my offtime playing music. I am, trying to get better, but my chops and improv techniques are what get my gigs. And of course the SFP synths from Dr. JB have really gotten the attention they deserve here in Las Vegas. If he would only make a hardware synth for the lazy guys.
Possibly my bros in Europe will understand why I'm such an idiot with computers. I spend all of my offtime playing music. I am, trying to get better, but my chops and improv techniques are what get my gigs. And of course the SFP synths from Dr. JB have really gotten the attention they deserve here in Las Vegas. If he would only make a hardware synth for the lazy guys.
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I once saw a clip taken from internet where a guy plaied some "Blues Stuff" as he said... The clip maybe comes from the '80 seeing the look of the player.
He plays a long hard rock solo at about 180 BPM on the pentatonic scale. The longest note was 1/8 of BPM and he did some tapping also!!!
A total crap IMO. He is a good player, ideed, seeing his speed, but he totally misses one thing: the soul.
After seeing that video my comment was a very fat laught
He plays a long hard rock solo at about 180 BPM on the pentatonic scale. The longest note was 1/8 of BPM and he did some tapping also!!!
A total crap IMO. He is a good player, ideed, seeing his speed, but he totally misses one thing: the soul.
After seeing that video my comment was a very fat laught
Welcome to the dawning of a new empire
That's like coming to a Bluegrass festival with a 100 watt Marshall stack. Blues is all ears and feel. Listening for the place to fill is key .
I once had the pleasure of seeing Bobby Blue Bland play at a club in East St.Louis when white boys weren't welcome, but since I was with Luther Ingram playing his gig down the road at the Keil Opera House, I was only cautiously observed. My parents almost killed me when I told them where I was, as I was only 17 at the time. But hey I had a Rhodes and an RMI E.P. with a leslie, so I was cool for a white dude. But Bobby BB was waiting for the turn around and was licking his lips like he was really gonna belt something out of the park and he only sang one word,............wehehehehlllll, as in the word well. I suddenly realised how brilliant and respectful that really was. I still wish I could find a vocalist like him, as he listened to his band and filled the holes righteously. I am use to vocalists singing, talkin, and never shutting their fucking mouths while on stage. Always trying to steal the show by acting like a DJ,Comedian, and God all in one. They are a constant source of irratation 4 me. Just feel it my brotha'. The one thing I remember the most from the brothas' was when we were playing at a Gospel revival, I was as usual the only white cat. We were playing with Fontella Bass, we vamped in the bridge as she ascended towards the heavens during Rescue Me ( her only hit )sounding like the female vocalist who wailed on the Dark Side Of The Moon LP, and so I got excited and started adding some different voicings to my chords and she turned to me and said .." stay in church boy." Funny how you remember things.
I once had the pleasure of seeing Bobby Blue Bland play at a club in East St.Louis when white boys weren't welcome, but since I was with Luther Ingram playing his gig down the road at the Keil Opera House, I was only cautiously observed. My parents almost killed me when I told them where I was, as I was only 17 at the time. But hey I had a Rhodes and an RMI E.P. with a leslie, so I was cool for a white dude. But Bobby BB was waiting for the turn around and was licking his lips like he was really gonna belt something out of the park and he only sang one word,............wehehehehlllll, as in the word well. I suddenly realised how brilliant and respectful that really was. I still wish I could find a vocalist like him, as he listened to his band and filled the holes righteously. I am use to vocalists singing, talkin, and never shutting their fucking mouths while on stage. Always trying to steal the show by acting like a DJ,Comedian, and God all in one. They are a constant source of irratation 4 me. Just feel it my brotha'. The one thing I remember the most from the brothas' was when we were playing at a Gospel revival, I was as usual the only white cat. We were playing with Fontella Bass, we vamped in the bridge as she ascended towards the heavens during Rescue Me ( her only hit )sounding like the female vocalist who wailed on the Dark Side Of The Moon LP, and so I got excited and started adding some different voicings to my chords and she turned to me and said .." stay in church boy." Funny how you remember things.
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As in Hohner D6 Clavinet from the Fatherland, ubertine.
BTW Wayne they were from my hometown in St.Louis, Missouri. As was Miles Davis, Clark Terry, Ike and Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, the list is long and distinguished. Wilma was reading threads with me and saw the picture of you and the boy and said, " Damn,..he's cute." I agreed and said yes, little kids posing with instrunents are way cool, she replied,..." not the boy,...your friens Wayne",.....I said shut-up bitch. She compiled. Just thought you'd like to hear about it. She actually shares our enthusiasm about SFP, and listens to ambient, classical, rock, jazz, funk, and country. I love a woman with good taste, and a tight ass!!~
BTW Wayne they were from my hometown in St.Louis, Missouri. As was Miles Davis, Clark Terry, Ike and Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, the list is long and distinguished. Wilma was reading threads with me and saw the picture of you and the boy and said, " Damn,..he's cute." I agreed and said yes, little kids posing with instrunents are way cool, she replied,..." not the boy,...your friens Wayne",.....I said shut-up bitch. She compiled. Just thought you'd like to hear about it. She actually shares our enthusiasm about SFP, and listens to ambient, classical, rock, jazz, funk, and country. I love a woman with good taste, and a tight ass!!~
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so I was wrong with my D6 explanetz...
yet it sounded logical...therefor that churche thing.
your wife must have a hard life at your side, you never have time, always talk about computers and other bitches, call her a bich and are focussed only on her ass.
Wish I had a tolerant woman like she, even disregarding her (tight) ass
yet it sounded logical...therefor that churche thing.
your wife must have a hard life at your side, you never have time, always talk about computers and other bitches, call her a bich and are focussed only on her ass.
Wish I had a tolerant woman like she, even disregarding her (tight) ass
Agreed,
I am a serious asshole. no one knows this better than me. But my love of my fiancee is best known in private. WJ knows me well. She tolerates my shortcomings, and is the finest creature that God ever bestowed upon me. Thanks for pointing out my arrogance, as I am so use to myself, I often overlook it.
She once said to me,..." JV, why is everything a slut, or a ho to you,"...I promptly replied,....O.K.,....Sorry bitch.
I guess it's a macho American thing ya' know. We seem to try to pretend we don't need our lover, and that we are all that, when really if she ever left me, I would mourn for months. Then the Pauite Indian friends of mine would give me some silly name like Fucks His Fist. When all the time I would be missing my girl who I often call " Fucks With Lips". Kinda like the Dances With Wolves thing. Ahh,...Forgeddabowdid.
I AM SUCH AN ASSHOLE, I AGREE.
JV
I am a serious asshole. no one knows this better than me. But my love of my fiancee is best known in private. WJ knows me well. She tolerates my shortcomings, and is the finest creature that God ever bestowed upon me. Thanks for pointing out my arrogance, as I am so use to myself, I often overlook it.
She once said to me,..." JV, why is everything a slut, or a ho to you,"...I promptly replied,....O.K.,....Sorry bitch.
I guess it's a macho American thing ya' know. We seem to try to pretend we don't need our lover, and that we are all that, when really if she ever left me, I would mourn for months. Then the Pauite Indian friends of mine would give me some silly name like Fucks His Fist. When all the time I would be missing my girl who I often call " Fucks With Lips". Kinda like the Dances With Wolves thing. Ahh,...Forgeddabowdid.
I AM SUCH AN ASSHOLE, I AGREE.
JV
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hubird
............... 'She Fucks With Lips good squah, she Fucks With Lips must tame him howlin' Fucks His Fist'
the name of the game
Hehehe, '80s...the decade of decadence!Lima wrote:I once saw a clip taken from internet where a guy plaied some "Blues Stuff" as he said... The clip maybe comes from the '80 seeing the look of the player.
He plays a long hard rock solo at about 180 BPM on the pentatonic scale. The longest note was 1/8 of BPM and he did some tapping also!!!
A total crap IMO. He is a good player, ideed, seeing his speed, but he totally misses one thing: the soul.
After seeing that video my comment was a very fat laught
Wasn't that the name of the game: faster & louder the better, never enough, excess upon excess...only thing that we missed having back in the '80s I would say is a 'guitar race' have people bet on guitar-racers so to speak. Or maybe we did & I missed it! Awww!I get a kick out of those uber-shredders' versions of what they call 'blues' hehehe. Somehow, it all fits together with the theme of excess. Who knows, perhaps they felt the blues in the fact that they needed to squeeze more notes in their arpeggio runs, hahaha!