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03-04-2009, 10:11 AM
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Apologies if this has appeared here before:
1. Everyone should play the same piece.
2. Observe the repeat signs only if what you just played was
interesting.
3. If you play a wrong note, glare at one of the other players.
4. The right note, at the wrong time, is a wrong note. (And vice-versa.)
5. A wrong note, played timidly, is a wrong note.
6. A wrong note, played with authority, is simply your interpretation of the phrase.
7. If everyone gets lost except you, follow the ones who are lost.
8. Strive always to play the maximum notes per second. This will intimidate the weaker players and gain you the admiration of the ignorant.
9. Markings for slurs, dynamics, and accidentals should be completely ignored. They are only there to make the score look more complicated.
10. If a passage is difficult, slow down. If it is easy, speed up. Everything will even itself out in the end.
11. You have achieved a true interpretation when, in the end, you have not played one note of the original piece.
12. When everyone else stops playing, you should stop also. Do not play any notes you may have left over.
Regards,
flyman
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flyman
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03-04-2009, 10:21 AM
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03-04-2009, 10:38 AM
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03-04-2009, 10:44 AM
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13) Only perform and associate with other CCM alum. |
03-04-2009, 12:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Woodburn, Oregon | | Quote:
Originally Posted by flyman
4. The right note, at the wrong time, is a wrong note. (And vice-versa.)
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| Unless you keep playing it til people are convinced you had some insight into the musical world and that you know more than them then... they accept it and think you are a genius.
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03-04-2009, 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by flyman 12. When everyone else stops playing, you should stop also. Do not play any notes you may have left over. | Always good advice 
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03-04-2009, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by flyman Apologies if this has appeared here before:
6. A wrong note, played with authority, is simply your interpretation of the phrase.
flyman |
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03-04-2009, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by flyman Apologies if this has appeared here before:
1. Everyone should play the same piece.
2. Observe the repeat signs only if what you just played was
interesting.
3. If you play a wrong note, glare at one of the other players.
4. The right note, at the wrong time, is a wrong note. (And vice-versa.)
5. A wrong note, played timidly, is a wrong note.
6. A wrong note, played with authority, is simply your interpretation of the phrase.
7. If everyone gets lost except you, follow the ones who are lost.
8. Strive always to play the maximum notes per second. This will intimidate the weaker players and gain you the admiration of the ignorant.
9. Markings for slurs, dynamics, and accidentals should be completely ignored. They are only there to make the score look more complicated.
10. If a passage is difficult, slow down. If it is easy, speed up. Everything will even itself out in the end.
11. You have achieved a true interpretation when, in the end, you have not played one note of the original piece.
12. When everyone else stops playing, you should stop also. Do not play any notes you may have left over.
Regards,
flyman |
True wisdom for the ages!
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03-04-2009, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Santiago de Chile | | | hahaha, this is good stuff |
03-04-2009, 01:04 PM
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03-04-2009, 01:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Columbia River Gorge | | There ARE no wrong notes. Those are Passing Notes, often interpreted by the less sophisticated listeners as 'wrong notes'! 
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03-04-2009, 01:14 PM
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Reminds me of the first time I played at church....I messed up a note (I was playing fretless) and missed the fretline. One of the musicians in the audience pointed this out...
I told him it was vibrato.
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03-04-2009, 01:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rockville, MD | | | the only rule i ever heard form a instructor was
"If you hit a wrong note it's a mistake. if you hit two wrong notes it's jazz"
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03-04-2009, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by punkrocko you forgot...
13) Only perform and associate with other CCM alum. | Yep. Forgot that one.
flyman
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Regards,
flyman
The bad jazz a cat blows wails long after he has cut out" - Lord Buckley
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03-04-2009, 06:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Santiago de Chile | | | not the topic... but I remembered a joke:
"what do you get if you play a Free Jazz record backwards?
another free jazz record!!!!!" |
03-04-2009, 06:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bremerton, Wa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rockwarnick the only rule i ever heard form a instructor was
"If you hit a wrong note it's a mistake. if you hit two wrong notes it's jazz" | and if you hit three it's the beginning of a new arrangement |
03-04-2009, 06:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida, in the U.S.A. | | | I did not realize there were any "RULES" , except that there are NO RULES.
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03-04-2009, 07:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: North Central Indiana | | | Can't remember where I heard this, but...
"If you play a wrong note and it sounds good, it's harmony. If you play a wrong note and it sounds bad, it's jazz."
Also, from Frank Zappa:
"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny." |
03-04-2009, 10:09 PM
| | | | Actually, one or two of those are good advice. Especially about playing a wrong note with authority. That can actually be applied to any genre.
A wrong note is only wrong if you let it be wrong |
03-04-2009, 10:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Santiago de Chile | | Quote:
Originally Posted by zeppelinfreak Actually, one or two of those are good advice. Especially about playing a wrong note with authority. That can actually be applied to any genre.
A wrong note is only wrong if you let it be wrong | A wrong note is a wrong note, man. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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