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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Interesting. Erm, what tune was that(I'd forgotten by around 3:30ish).
I think if it happens it will be more like the Earth depicted in WALL-E. Not nuked to cinders but covered in trash and way too much crud in the water and air. Not that cinderation couldn't happen, but we as a society are more likely to die a death of 1000 or 1000000 or 1000000000 cuts....
While I'm 'aware' that any note can be played against any chord, it doesn't always make for a 'good' sound. Playing 64th notes at Tempo di Tearass may be flashy, and at least some of the notes may fit or be 'right', I'm not that impressed for long.
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Reporters with cameras are notoriously sloppy photographers
A lot of darkroom rescue work takes place to salvage a photo, and certainly Been There. Not my full time job, tho.
With that image in mind, I’ve gone off eating soup.
Thank you for all your work and allowing the thread to be reopened.
My wife was a chamber maid in a hotel and knows what it’s like to clean up other people’s messes. Not something you want to do but well appreciated.
Thanks, Bob and Chris! Sorry you guys had to deal with it.
On a fast bebop tune, I request in advance to be paid by the note. Nothing like playing that for several soloists and 6-7 mins then someone says "bass solo!". No, but thanks asking.
Realistically, you're playing a solo throughout the tune. But it would give everyone-band and audience alike-a chance to chat.On a fast bebop tune, I request in advance to be paid by the note. Nothing like playing that for several soloists and 6-7 mins then someone says "bass solo!". No, but thanks asking.
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First couple of mins were pretty cool and I liked the groove but 6 mins of that was a little too much.
You using a sustain pedal?
Realistically, you're playing a solo throughout the tune. But it would give everyone-band and audience alike-a chance to chat.
That's a running gag in the school combo. I usually give the others a topic to discuss while I'm playing. I may have posted this about 35,000 posts ago. Some self deprecating humor.
The BL/arranger of one of the big bands I was a part of almost always put in a section where the entire band played in unison.
That's 6 saxes(including BL), 4 'bones, 4 trumpets, piano, drums, and bass, all playing the same notes/rhythm. Other musicians thought it was "cool", crowd was unimpressed. Me too. I s'pose it's a jazz thing I don't understand-or something.
I'm working on 85 bpm whole rests. lol
Yeah, I was told a story by a sax player friend(?)of mine. "Everyone talks during the bass solo" being the punchline.
That's a running gag in the school combo. I usually give the others a topic to discuss while I'm playing. I may have posted this about 35,000 posts ago. Some self deprecating humor.
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BTW, I'm not saying "I'm right". I'm saying I don't see the point and it's not something I wanna hear. One chorus in a 45 minute set is(more than)enuff...For me.The BL/arranger of one of the big bands I was a part of almost always put in a section where the entire band played in unison.
That's 6 saxes(including BL), 4 'bones, 4 trumpets, piano, drums, and bass, all playing the same notes/rhythm. Other musicians thought it was "cool", crowd was unimpressed. Me too. I s'pose it's a jazz thing I don't understand-or something.
Sadly, that's sort of killed the real art and skill/knowledge of the process of photography.
A friend of mine was a nwsppr photographer. Each photographer at the nwsppr he worked at had their own darkroom. I've spent plenty of time in Rick's back in the day.
BTDT way more times that I should have at the lab. My goal was to make everyone look like Ansel Adams, Weegee, Bresson, et al. The trash can was the most important tool I had in the darkroom...
To each their own; I happen to like TT.
No, I don't think so... It's just changed. In the past the pros showed up with 4 or 5 rangefinder and/or SLR 35mm cameras hanging from them and with a few dozen rolls of film in their bags. They might shoot hundreds of shots of a given event or subject! And then the heavy duty artwork in, say, the Life Magazine studios, came in the selective editing the skilled photo editors did in their workshops. Thinking every great shot was taken at the first and only press of the shutter was one of the great myths surrounding pro photography! Yes of course some great shots were, but this was mostly a matter of great good luck combined with some rare skills not many possessed...
So IMO digital photography is now actually expanding the art in some ways by allowing more folks to become their own skillful editors... Now you can simply delete your own mistakes and imperfect shots rather than having another editor (with different opinions and tastes?) crumpling them into the wastebasket!
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