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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: AJ Date: February 11, 2018, 11:28 am
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=197.msg2064#msg2064
date=1518369487]
Regarding DSOTM, I really should listen to the whole album. I'm
speaking from a position of ignorance. I only have some
familiarity with the songs I've heard played on the radio thru
the years. BUT, I will venture to say that the songs I can
(sort of) hear in my mind's ears from DSOTM could be played
along with with little effort - without and calculation or
figuring out. I'd submit to you that to play the even the
earliest Beatles hit songs "I Want To Hold Your Hand" or "She
Loves You" would take a bit of figuring out, before playing
along with.
On the other hand, DSOTM must have sold what ? 50 million
copies or something. Must have something going on.
I have spent my whole adult life trying to cultivate my musical
skills. I tend to gravitate toward the musical craftsmen. That
would exclude say, Bob Dylan. He's a master craftsman with
words. Not so much with music.
Many would disagree with me. That's what I'm here for - to be
disagreeable. Just opinions.
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You need to ingest some of your favorite flower and listen to
DSOTM in it's entirety. I promise...It will change your
perspective on it. Just listening to "Money" or "Breathe"
doesn't give you a clean perspective of the scope of the
project/album.
Dylan was indeed a master lyricist. He was a good guitar player
as well, and an accomplished one..On acoustic anyway...He came
to electrics late in the game so to speak...But he has improved
on them a lot over the years. His early stuff is the gold to be
sure....But I'm no Dylan apologist or defender really. I'm a
fan/listener of his stuff up to "Blood on the Tracks"...Really
don't care much after that.
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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: indigo_dave Date: February 11, 2018, 2:51 pm
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Bout to go biking. Another spring like day. BUT, my theory
about why "Rainbow" has the extraneous noise is that the battery
was dying. When my friend was pressing the ON/OFF button, the
red record light was flashing - this was during our many takes
(I'd stop if I screwed up). I'm theorizing that since we
unknowingly recorded with the red light flashing, this accounts
for the introduced noise.
Listened to an NPR Radiolab just now on YouTube. A guy named
Robert Sapolsky called "Revising The Fault Line". Interesting
shit.
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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: indigo_dave Date: February 15, 2018, 9:03 pm
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A spontaneous little improv that's mostly just 2 chords. With a
real clever name of LiltyIdea180215. Maybe I can incorporate it
into something.
HTML https://drive.google.com/open?id=13GnYMLcBnf8xrUeCahl0VPwiknlf5fQL
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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: AJ Date: February 15, 2018, 9:29 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=197.msg2090#msg2090
date=1518750219]
A spontaneous little improv that's mostly just 2 chords. With a
real clever name of LiltyIdea180215. Maybe I can incorporate it
into something.
HTML https://drive.google.com/open?id=13GnYMLcBnf8xrUeCahl0VPwiknlf5fQL
[/quote]
Cool, quirky piece Dave...And an awesome run there about 1:21!
hope you develop it further!
"My latest musical clutter" has really become "The Dave Music
Thread"...I like that...It's cool and abiding thing now.. O0
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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: indigo_dave Date: February 16, 2018, 8:47 am
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Thanks AJ. I'm thinking that I will likely register for a
Coursera.com course in poetry. I'm hoping to develop a bit of
competence in writing lyrics. We'll see how that goes.
Thanks for listening.
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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: Bucky Date: February 17, 2018, 10:10 am
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Man, that Blue Slide track reminds me of Dave Brubeck.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyUh9ED0UGY
Excellent playing, Dave!
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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: indigo_dave Date: February 17, 2018, 8:37 pm
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Thanks Bucky. Several weeks ago I tried to transcribe the
opening chords in Brubeck's "Rising Sun". I got bogged down.
It's hard to hear the notes in the chords with so many different
pitches. The "trick" to much of the harmony in this (what I'll
call ) sound is (what I'll call) polychords. I didn't invent
this term. But it lends itself to the piano because the left
hand can be playing one chord and the right hand can be playing
a contrasting chord - the two together sound dissonant - kind of
super spicy in a sense. Anyway I might , let's say play a C
major chord in my left hand with a G in the bass - and play an
Eb major with a Bb in the bass. These 2 simple chords, played
against each other sound complicated. It's part of that sound.
Also chords moving to places that sound unexpected.
Whether this makes sense or not I dunno. But I want to be able
to come up with lyrics. I think I may start jotting down ideas
in a little notebook.
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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: indigo_dave Date: February 25, 2018, 7:01 am
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I finally got a take of "Over The Rainbow" that I like. I put
the video recorder a bit farther away to try to avoid mic
distortion that I thought I heard on some other takes.
HTML https://youtu.be/O0KbhH8xCbQ
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Re: My latest musical clutter
By: AJ Date: February 25, 2018, 1:09 pm
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We have a winner here Dave....Ya nailed it....Kudos!
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Re: My latest musical clutter (Indigo Dave Corner of Creation)
By: indigo_dave Date: February 26, 2018, 7:47 am
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And recently recorded, "Day Tripper".
HTML https://youtu.be/DAlzouby5n0
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