changing the pre-planned order of a song, in live performance, keeps things lively but also keeps them (the band) rather nervous.”
so said DON ELLIS, (paraphrased here.)
“but also keeps them rather nervous.”
a new piece I am playing does exactly that.
I am feeling that more music should, it’s just too fun.
in one gig of this piece (2nd ever, I think)
there were some sexy dancers dancing along with us, and in THIS tune, I HAD to “not look at them”, lest I miss a cue and louse it up
Tagged AFRICAN because this technique sorta comes from African (West) Drumming.
I awoke at 8:20 am today… for some reason, left home real early to work on stuff… HOURS earlier than I usually put my mind to anything important than isn’t being RUN by OTHER PEOPLE (in the morning, and early afternoon, that is.)
suddenly, even though I drank coffee 3 HOURS ago, now, that it’s 3pm, BOOOOM!!!!
I”VE GOT TONS OF ENERGY!!! WHAT THE HELL! (happy, just funny)
Brazilian Music (a song called MAGIA by BANDA BLACK RIO) is responsible as well.
I guess you shouldn’t put up walls between yourself and others, even if it was other people in your childhood who put them up, forcibly, and you just accepted them because you thought they were real (indeed, they kinda were,) (the matrix again)
you shouldn’t minimize yourself in such a way, for example:
“so and so (a woman who is sexually attractive) wouldn’t date me because she has dated “this guy” or “that guy” and I’m nothing like those guys.
I bet- after many years of empy loneliness oh god,
that that simply ain’t true. I must have what women want.
yes that.
geez this makes me nervous hahahaaaa
people always taught me that I MISSED, as in DIDN’T NOTICE or UNDERSTAND “NORMAL SOCIAL CUES.”
but why should anyone AGREE with the Cursed things ANYHOW?
they don’t SUIT me. so FUCk em!
MAYBE the damn things just didn’t make SENSE to me, and MAYBE it WASN’T ME that was the issue, maybe it’s the damn social cues, maybe they are are just KINDA STUPID.
man, sometimes “actually playing in time” and “actually getting a good sound, not a sloppy (dirty in the drumline sense) sound is hard…
doing so on your thighs with your hands seems easy enough, but god damn, suddenly on actual drums, you suck.
#practice, hahaha who would think.
as you reach out and try to collaborate, with anyone for any purpose,
know this, particularly if you are more unique than other individuals:
you might not and probably will not get along well with almost EVERYONE. I mean seriously, would you marry ANYONE? I doubt it.
I’ve had some lousy therapists, I have a good one “who happens to work well with me” now. (happens, not because they are good or bad, nor me, (that’s important!) but just because of CHEMISTRY, so to speak…
for gods SAKE people (or, whomever’s)
DO NOT blame YOURSELF on CHEMISTRY!!!!
it has occurred to me once again that a lot of people simply can’t very easily hear, say, the Root, Third, and Fifth (and other notes) of a Triad, when listening to chords, in a row, etc…
pity them, it’s really beautiful and stimulating. who needs money or sex, I got this;)
it’d be very nice to have a platform from which to launch and do my ideas. namely a manager and agent, but ones who help realize MY stuff, not others’s. unless it’s the same:)
anybody got one? such a thing, I mean, got such a thing?
(I really seriously need help with this folks, I’m wasting, some day it will be too late.)
I taught this at A.C.E. one summer, after randomly noticing it while planning class one morning (5 hours before the class, while driving to another class elsewhere to teach first)
Eb or D#, in all chords:
-G Aug (G B D#)
-F7 (dominant 7, for you classicals, F A C Eb)
-ebm (Eb Gb Bb)
-BM (B D# F#)
-F7
-cm (C Eb G)
-f#m Add 6th (F# A C# D#)
from REMEMBER REMEMBER from V for Vendetta, Dario Marinelli. perhaps anyone could have written it. so what. still cool. I mean, the chords, they don’t seem obviously (perhaps I’m wrong) built on movement by 5ths or 4ths… just containing Eb.
