Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

There are no wrong notes in jazz, that's why chromaticism works.

Some Jazz/Rock/Funk/Fusion+originals guys in their 50s are advertising on CL for a drummer and a bass player. "Jeff Beck, The Meters, Jeff Golub, Medeski/Martin&Wood, Herbie Hancock, Jean Luc Ponty, Allman Bros, Traffic, etc. ... open to all ages as long as you can really play your instrument" the ad reads. They also rehearse and (pre-cv) perform about an hour west of me

 

[Bushmaster]

Next time you're in Cleveland, we'll take you here, the closet we get to (I think) real Indian food.
https://www.cafetandoorcleveland.com

This is Northern Indian cuisine. I trust your judgment this is a decent restaurant. I'd like to try the Kachoomar Salad, Saag Mushroom, Cucumber Raita, Mixed Pickle, Mango Ice Cream, Guava Juice and Perrier

Actually, I often at home prepare stuff like a yoghurt-tomato-cucumber-onion-salad, similar to राइता Rāitā, which is called தயிர்ப் பச்சடி tayirppaccaṭi in Tamil. தயிர் tayir denoting "curd, yoghurt", and a பச்சடி paccaṭi in Tamiḻnāṭu and Kēraḷa is a side-dish similar to Raita.

But my favourite is a tomato-cucumber-onion-salad called கச்சும்பர் kaccumpar (note the similarity). It just adds a pinch of salt, a bit of chili, lemon or lime juice

I've used a chromatic approach on most walking bass lines especially since I started playing jazz some 20 yrs ago. The standard 1-3-5-6-1 line is fine for traditional blues tunes but for jazz blues it doesn't sound right.

Guess it easily might get a bit boring I hardly ever played conventional walking lines, I often thought in scales, though frequently employing alterations (for the most part improvised). Rhythmically there's also more interesting solutions available.

There used to be a decent introduction by John Fischer (Anleitung zur Improvisation für Bass. Mainz: Schott 1967) demonstrating a continuum ranging from your average garden variety of walking lines to soli. I bought it on a whim at some store in Frankfurt, not anticipating how great this would turn out to be

Of course, in a blues band I wouldn't incorporate much of the outrageous stuff

 

[gtmalone]

There are no wrong notes in jazz, that's why chromaticism works.

There was a professor at the University of North Texas that said "There are no wrong notes, just wrong resolutions".

 

[Bushmaster]

There was a professor at the University of North Texas that said "There are no wrong notes, just wrong resolutions".

I wholeheartedly agree. Of course, approaches like Harmolodics and M-Base are the art of potentially constant reinterpretation. Mastering them is quite an art, though.

More radically, Alphonso Johnson once stated, if he really made a mistake there was no other way out, he just played the same for a second time so the audience would think it had to be this way

Actually, this helped me a lot to never develop something like stage fright

 

[gtmalone]

This is Northern Indian cuisine. I trust your judgment this is a decent restaurant. I'd like to try the Kachoomar Salad, Saag Mushroom, Cucumber Raita, Mixed Pickle, Mango Ice Cream, Guava Juice and Perrier

Actually, I often at home prepare stuff like a yoghurt-tomato-cucumber-onion-salad, similar to राइता Rāitā, which is called தயிர்ப் பச்சடி tayirppaccaṭi in Tamil. தயிர் tayir denoting "curd, yoghurt", and a பச்சடி paccaṭi in Tamiḻnāṭu and Kēraḷa is a side-dish similar to Raita.

But my favourite is a tomato-cucumber-onion-salad called கச்சும்பர் kaccumpar (note the similarity). It just adds a pinch of salt, a bit of chili, lemon or lime juice



Guess it easily might get a bit boring I hardly ever played conventional walking lines, I often thought in scales, though frequently employing alterations (for the most part improvised). Rhythmically there's also more interesting solutions available.

There used to be a decent introduction by John Fischer (Anleitung zur Improvisation für Bass. Mainz: Schott 1967) demonstrating a continuum ranging from your average garden variety of walking lines to soli. I bought it on a whim at some store in Frankfurt, not anticipating how great this would turn out to be

Of course, in a blues band I wouldn't incorporate much of the outrageous stuff

I did get bored with traditional blues but it was always fun playing a shuffle IF you had a good drummer. Then again traditional blues is a good exercise for making you play within the bounds of a genre.

For walking lines rhythmic interest is a good thing if it's not over done. It's like spice on food - a little is good but too much looses the original flavor. I have a recording of a blues group I was in in the late '90s. I had been playing jazz for a short time and discovered that triplet "diggity-do" figure. I used that on every turnaround at the end of the form. Man, I thought that was so cool back then! I listen to it now and it's way too much.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Just reminded, for no particular reason, that hot cross buns are kind of gross.

 

[gtmalone]

I wholeheartedly agree. Of course, approaches like Harmolodics and M-Base are the art of potentially constant reinterpretation. Mastering them is quite an art, though.

More radically, Alphonso Johnson once stated, if he really made a mistake there was no other way out, he just played the same for a second time so the audience would think it had to be this way

Actually, this helped me a lot to never develop something like stage fright

lol. I have done that a few times. I've found that the audience mostly remembers the start, end, and breaks of a tune and not so much of what happens in the middle. I put my focus there and staying with the form. It's pretty obvious if the bass player falls off the form and plays "wrong resolutions".

I still get butterflies before a gig even though I've done it hundreds of times.

 

[gtmalone]

Just reminded, for no particular reason, that hot cross buns are kind of gross.

You are correct. I make it a point not to sit on a hot cross.

 

[Jeff Scott]

...this helped me a lot to never develop something like stage fright

This is what helped John Entwistle with his own stage fright.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Some Jazz/Rock/Funk/Fusion+originals guys in their 50s are advertising on CL for a drummer and a bass player. "Jeff Beck, The Meters, Jeff Golub, Medeski/Martin&Wood, Herbie Hancock, Jean Luc Ponty, Allman Bros, Traffic, etc. ... open to all ages as long as you can really play your instrument" the ad reads. They also rehearse and (pre-cv) perform about an hour west of me

 

[Deleted member 268085]

What's your take on this.



For those who have seen this you may be excused from class, but please, still have some class while doing so.

Delish is my take. I've had southern Indian food in Malaysia. 5 different curries served on a banana leaf, but what this video reminded me of was the crabs. Holy smokes, but they're good!

 

[Deleted member 268085]

A study is under way to determine if a third shot will help to better ward off the variants. It’s possible that this will become a yearly thing, much like a flu vaccine.

I got the first of two Moderna stabs yesterday. Other than significant soreness around the injection site, nada. I'm still waiting for any noticeable effects. Flu shots have bothered me more. They say the second shot is worse. We'll see. Feeling kind of lucky at the moment!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Ain't coaxing this week's video out of me this time around

Hawtdawg those fusiondudes look like fun to play with. Two hours round trip commute ... I'm 65!

Whatever that goo is that goes on top of hot cross buns makes Twinkie filling afraid.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Ain't coaxing this week's video out of me this time around

Awe, come on! We promise, there are no hot cross buns to pass around (much).

Hawtdawg those fusiondudes look like fun to play with. Two hours round trip commute ... I'm 65!

If you're going 65KPH, many KMs will you cover in an hour?

 

[GwenOnBass]

When 65kph is my top speed I should probably just run myself over

 

[gtmalone]

Ain't coaxing this week's video out of me this time around

Hawtdawg those fusiondudes look like fun to play with. Two hours round trip commute ... I'm 65!

Whatever that goo is that goes on top of hot cross buns makes Twinkie filling afraid.

The worst "treat" I ever had was a deep fried Twinkie. I expected it to be crunchy on the outside but it was a soggy, oily mess that didn't improve the Twinkie.

The State Fair of Texas has had other deep fried delicacies such as fried butter, fried Coke (figure that one out), fried Froot Loops, fried ice cream, fried chicken noodle soup on a stick.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I find street food, as a rule, only needs to look tasty. But in certain cases the most horribad street food can be one of earth's great delights. Many come to mind from kebabs to midnight chips and curry <belch> but the Blue Ribbon for El DisgustoGood goes to the cheesesteaks from the mobile kitchen outside the Philadelphia Inquirer ... and a close second to tacos and lime in San Fernando ...

 

[GwenOnBass]

Okay now the 'Tube's algorithms are messing with me. I replayed that upload and one of the suggestions is titled "Chasing Carrots (Part 3)" Have some Pigs (Three Different Ones), YouTube

 

[mikeoso]

Good information, here. This morning, there was a catfight outside the house; the SO heard them bouncing off the side of the house and now I have to go clean up the rather large pool of blood they left on the driveway. What's the best way to make blood ink?

Regarding this:

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How many skateboards do you think can be made from it?

Screw skateboards! That top is thick enough to make bass bodies.

 

[beans-on-toast]

There was a time in the USSR when nobody could afford guitars and basses, not even the state made ones. Inventive people would steal grandma’s old table and use it to build instruments. These homemade instruments are collectors items today.