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Pachelbel's Canon rant...funny!
- Thread starter Kronos
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Aw dude! Tommy Emmanuel is awesome. I love that kind of stuff. My favorite place in the world is a folk music festival in the Texas hill country. Several of the regulars are near Tommy's level of musicianship, so the jam seessions are often mind-boggling.
Even though a bunch of the people out at the festival can play like that, they seem to value songwriting more, which works in my favor, because I can't play guitar like Tommy, but I can occasionally turn a pretty good lyrical phrase.
For example, just the other day I was talking with some friends and discovered a phrase that they thought I should already know. Have you ever heard that the action of dice tumbling against each other while being shaken and thrown is called a gambler's dance? I'd never heard it. They all acted as if it was a very common usage, but no one else I've asked was familiar with it either.
So I put it into some lyrics I'm working on. The verse that it goes in goes like this:
Before we make our choices life is just a game of chance
The wheel that spins, the cards that turn, dice in their gamblers dance
Live the lesson that you're given. Learn your life with no regrets
And, if you have to try and try again
Wow. In print that doesn't flow nearly as well as it does verbally.
Even though a bunch of the people out at the festival can play like that, they seem to value songwriting more, which works in my favor, because I can't play guitar like Tommy, but I can occasionally turn a pretty good lyrical phrase.
For example, just the other day I was talking with some friends and discovered a phrase that they thought I should already know. Have you ever heard that the action of dice tumbling against each other while being shaken and thrown is called a gambler's dance? I'd never heard it. They all acted as if it was a very common usage, but no one else I've asked was familiar with it either.
So I put it into some lyrics I'm working on. The verse that it goes in goes like this:
Before we make our choices life is just a game of chance
The wheel that spins, the cards that turn, dice in their gamblers dance
Live the lesson that you're given. Learn your life with no regrets
And, if you have to try and try again
Wow. In print that doesn't flow nearly as well as it does verbally.
