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Tiny Keyboarding - I Am The Walrus
By: indigo_dave Date: August 16, 2017, 11:42 am
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I coined a term, Tiny Keyboarding, on vacation. I had someone
hold the camera while I did a (flawed) rendition of "Walrus".
The alteration of the melody on "I'm Crying" was because I was
having trouble holding the high notes. Just a bit of fun.
HTML https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3ui9JUkGl5FN3RyLUctbzFsbVk
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Re: Tiny Keyboarding - I Am The Walrus
By: AJ Date: August 16, 2017, 6:10 pm
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That was a delight Dave! Cool to see you in action! Like the
workaround on the high notes!
Must have been pleasant weather, what with the open screen
door...
Low here today was 80...A Sticky 80.
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Re: Tiny Keyboarding - I Am The Walrus
By: indigo_dave Date: August 17, 2017, 7:20 am
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The weather wasn't bad overall. There were days/nights with
hours of rain with alternating stretches of cool sunny days. I
sat in that spot playing and singing. It was a nice vacation.
Vogel State Park in north Georgia is a wonderful happy place. It
was created by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) back in the
1930's. Socialism at its best.
I got a call after I got home on Tuesday about playing in an
upscale assisted living facility (ALF). The gig, is supposed to
be on Monday and Wednesday from 4 till 5 pm. They have a
pianist (on their in house piano) 365 days a year for "social
hour". I'm going to tell them I only want to play on Mondays,
that is if they want to hire me. Playing only on Mondays would
give me a stretch of 6 days for regional (N.Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina) treks on occasion. I'm
hoping it works out.
I'm glad that neurological studies have determined that
listening to music is good for old peoples' brains. Good for
everyone's brains actually. We musicians don't get much respect
in the marketplace.
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Re: Tiny Keyboarding - I Am The Walrus
By: indigo_dave Date: August 17, 2017, 7:45 pm
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Was just listening to "Honky Tonk" to see if it was something I
could play. But I'd not heard it in decades and thought it was
kind of cool.
HTML https://youtu.be/5vqFrt3ZuwY
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Re: Tiny Keyboarding - I Am The Walrus
By: Luke17 Date: August 18, 2017, 8:19 am
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I still have the 45. Honky Tonk part 1 on the A side ...and you
guessed it .. Honky Tonk part 2 on the flip side. :)
This was one of the first guitar lines I learned to play...no
tabs back then, just sat down next to the record player and
plucked along..stopped the record manually when you wanted to
go back..with resulted in quite a few divots in my older
brothers records. :'(
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Re: Tiny Keyboarding - I Am The Walrus
By: indigo_dave Date: August 19, 2017, 8:17 am
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Bill Doggett played with Louis Jordan (and his Tympani Five)
before breaking and going on his own with the big ole organ.
What I read was that Bill Doggett and Wild Bill Davis toured in
Louis Jordan's band. Both were piano players, but (as I read it)
they would take turns playing in the band for maybe 2 week
stretches, alternating with each other. The alternating pianist
would write arrangements for the band during his non-piano
playing stretch.
Bill Doggett (IIRC) bought an organ around 1950 or so. He
dropped out of the band to go on his own. IIRC from reading the
big (huge) new Hammond organs became something of a rage around
this time. Then Wild Bill Davis bought and organ, moved it
into his home (apartment?) and started making payments on the
organ. He kept it a secret from Louis Jordan because he was
afraid LJ might fire him in anticipation of him leaving. When LJ
found out, he incorporated the organ into the band, which
disappoints me because to my ears, the sound doesn't blend as
well as the piano. A matter of personal taste maybe.
BUT, one of my favorite blues piano solos of all time is played
on Louis Jordan's "Early In The Morning". I don't know which
guy played it. And there seem to be only ORGAN albums by Bill
Doggett and Wild Bill Davis.
Which leads me to share "Early In The Morning". I've most
learned the intro and often play it pretty close to this
recording. To me the playing, singing and overall arrangement
is close to perfection.
HTML https://youtu.be/Z7CwowI2kpI
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Re: Tiny Keyboarding - I Am The Walrus
By: AJ Date: August 19, 2017, 11:24 pm
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[quote author=Luke17 link=topic=69.msg657#msg657
date=1503062373]
I still have the 45. Honky Tonk part 1 on the A side ...and you
guessed it .. Honky Tonk part 2 on the flip side. :)
This was one of the first guitar lines I learned to play...no
tabs back then, just sat down next to the record player and
plucked along..stopped the record manually when you wanted to
go back..with resulted in quite a few divots in my older
brothers records. :'(
[/quote]
A lot of my records have similarly created divots. My Granpa
gave me a small Channel Master cassette recorder and then I
started recording the songs I wanted to learn. Crudely, by
holding the mic up to the speaker on my mono record players
speaker. Got the job done though. Learning, by ear. On a cheap
Japanese guitar.
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Re: Tiny Keyboarding - I Am The Walrus
By: indigo_dave Date: August 20, 2017, 10:45 am
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Some of the old turntables had a 16 RPM speed. Some people used
that for learning songs although than would put a 33 RPM right
at an octave lower making some things sound like a low gurgle.
More recently I've used YouTube with a mouse close to the right
side of the piano keyboard - stopping and restarting . It's a
bit clumsy to find a specific point in the recordings, but it's
worked pretty well for me.
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