I keep a grand piano in my car's glove box just in case there is a traffic back up and I have time to practice... Where do you keep your practice piano?
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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I keep a banjo in my car. Best deterrent against theft I've found so far.
I play bagpipe band music in the car at maximum volume. I have never been stuck in traffic; people just want to get me away from them.
I generally keep something like this on repeat.
I generally keep something like this on repeat.
The technologically advanced, unpatented P bass was witnessed in the wild for the first time around the year 3,300 BC, archeologists have discovered.
Ötzi, an infamous, anarchic, renegade rocker, who was caught red-handed with the deadly instrument in his possession, was summarily executed and buried high in the alps in an unmarked grave, as is, sadly, so often the case with nonconformists like Ötzi. At that time, he was a world famous proto-punk bassist, the Crown Prince of the Pogo, and he was wanted by the authorities for committing a string of crimes against good taste and orderly music.
His P bass possessed only one string. In his time, they didn't actually call them P basses. They were known simply as longbows. When they finally unearthed him, in 1991, Ötzi's P bass was still perfectly in tune, confirming the legend and causing quite a stir in the halls of academe.
The single string design, always in tune with itself, is understood to be the reason the name 'Precision' eventually stuck. In the same light, its precision as a weapon cannot be discounted. Brewer's Dictionary has it that the bass was tuned to drop D, and, according to phrase and fable, killing two birds with one stone age, that's also ancient shorthand for 'drop the devil'. Not surprisingly then, it's understood by historians to have also been used consistently by the amped up Ötzi, to launch lethal arrows at hecklers and suspicious passers by, on a Saturday night.
Ötzi's prized possession was indeed, like the P basses of today, an all conquering, supremely powerful weapon, figuratively and literally, incorporating, in the traditional manner, ewes intestines — not cat innards as is often mistakenly claimed — and only the stoutest Yew wood. Undeniably, a most lethal combination.
Unsurprisingly then, in its most recent manifestation — now a stealthy and diminutive crossbow — it's often lovingly referred to using the pet name, U-Bass. And is said to possess a surprising and very tuneful bottom end. How times have changed.
But, like its ancestor instruments, it can still be a deceptively dangerous weapon, especially in the hands of prodigious punk rockers, spreading like wildfire, counterculture chaos at high altitudes.
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I know this doesn't work from personal experience. I tried it once when parked downtown and when I came back, I found a broken window and some a*****e had left two more banjos...
Drop tuning actually started when a bass player fumbled grabbing his guitar from the stand, and when he picked it up off the floor it had magically come into tune. Then everybody started doing it, and it worked until (typically) a lead guitarist showing off went overboard and smashed his guitar in the hope that it would tune itself. it didn't, but the rest of the band agreed that it sounded better when he couldn't play it any more.
Fender has now been identified as the original source for all those Flat-Tort theorists making videos on YouTort from their 200y.o. mom's spare hibernation room. The idea gained traction because although other tortoises clearly had dome backs, it was just common sense that their own back was flat.
I've haddock with you lot floundering around with missfishinformation. Not to carp on and get all crabby about it, but...
Good COD almighty!
That's the fish you want when the chips are drown, in a pool of vinegar. Salmon'll like it, salmon won't.
Manager Neil Aspinall got the idea for The Beatles' "long-for-the-time" haircuts after eating Rollmöpse while in Hamburg.
The redundant B is often tuned an octave up, like an ukulele, a sort of re-entrant tuning with the low-B followed immediately by the high-b... whether you think of it as redundant or re-entrant, BREAD is becoming increasingly popular with formerly out-of-work bass players finally getting to play publically again as gig-jobs continue to open up after the Covid Lock-Down.
Good COD almighty!
That's the fish you want when the chips are drown, in a pool of vinegar. Salmon'll like it, salmon won't.
Manager Neil Aspinall got the idea for The Beatles' "long-for-the-time" haircuts after eating Rollmöpse while in Hamburg.
The redundant B is often tuned an octave up, like an ukulele, a sort of re-entrant tuning with the low-B followed immediately by the high-b... whether you think of it as redundant or re-entrant, BREAD is becoming increasingly popular with formerly out-of-work bass players finally getting to play publically again as gig-jobs continue to open up after the Covid Lock-Down.
The key of Abmajor has 4 flats because A is the fourth letter of the alphabet when using the Gregorian Calendar
Most musicians find it easier to play odd time signatures when suffering from jet lag or daylight saving.
The right-hand wounds south of the equator upon interaction with the magnetic field will try to oscillate in opposition with themselves, like two sine-waves out of phase, you'll get muffled tone at best if any sound at all. Those anti-parallel oscillations, the string shaking itself to the core — Heck, those right-hand wound strings might even come undone!
The 60s TV show Lost In Space was originally about a hippy bass player strung out on yellow or brown pills each week, but the network made a few changes and only let the writers take the LSD...
That is the normal state of a hovercraft*.
* hovercraft being Welsh slang for a pipe organ.
I think you inserted some extra vowels in that.
Any standard electric guitar with a basswood body can be converted into a bass by using an easily-available, cheap anti-capo.
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