What are you listening to today?

[Davie]

4 minutes ago, Davie said:

Who says Harvard can't dance? This drag queen Harvard student knows her subject by heart and by voice!

 

 

[Heather Shay]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Davie]

For Melodie.

[Timi]

 

[Ashley0616]

 

[Heather Shay]

 

[Ashley0616]

 

[Heather Shay]

 

[Lydia_R]

Oh my, here it comes...

 

 

It looks like there is a half moon out my window...  4:51am

 

 

[Lydia_R]

Or on the more melodic side of jazz instead of the groove side:

 

 

This alto sax solo by Ralph Moore is a favorite of mine.  I transcribed these solos back in 1992.  It's still a blast to play them down.  I've been enjoying playing them on piano lately.  I'll hold my transcription book in my left hand with my head pointed to the left and then play the solo on the piano with my right hand while trying to not look at the keyboard.  I'm having a blast with that.

[Ashley0616]

 

[Lydia_R]

I played that Herbie Hancock Sextant recording I posted yesterday for my roommate and his first response to it was that it sounded like music from a porn flick.  I've heard that before, but I don't make that association at all.  I get a very mystic feeling from it.

 

I've been digging this now:

 

 

The lazy feel of it.  I enjoy improvising melodies and chords over it on the piano.  I get this vision of a lazy dystopian future of rustic decaying cities.  I'll sit on my mexican yoga blanket on the floor with my 5 gallon water bottle, simple pine board, coffee cup and nice pair of 747 drum sticks with a wood tip that I've had for 20-30 years.  I've been wearing my flowy long Indian patterned skirts again instead of the pencil skirts so that I can easily sit down on the blanket.

 

"Now there's 3 of them laughing 'round the radio."

[Ashley0616]

 

[Heather Shay]

 

[Heather Shay]

RIP Duane Eddy - pioneer rock and roll guitarist

 

 

 

 

[Heather Shay]

 

[Heather Shay]

Always an under appreciated musician..

 

[christinakristy2021]

https://youtu.be/Ca-O2YpEZP4?si=XZeeZB4K9-_yddez

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[Heather Shay]

 

[Lydia_R]

I had fun doing this a few weeks ago.  This is how I got rid of -money:

 

 

This music player code of mine is really working out nice.  My music collection is all mp3 files.  I put them on my server and then code things like that to play them and loop them.  And then I coded an app while I was in the mental hospital in 2009 that I use to transcribe my music with.  It's a Windows app and you can browse to an mp3 or use a URL to an mp3.  Once it is in the program, it looks like a normal music software timeline and there are sliders to slow it down and speed it up by octaves, semitones and cents, so you have complete control over what key the music is in.  And you can create loops in it and I added a feature a few years ago where it remembers all the settings so when you open it again, you still have the same loop set with the pitch settings.  I've been putting my favorite recordings in it lately, setting the funkiest loop I can find and then slow it down an octave or more.  Then I play drums to it and piano stuff, or pennywhistle.  I like playing drums on the floor.  Even though I got rid of money and well, I should have done that decades ago, I had a good time the other day hitting my bin of GO stones with my drumstick.

 

I don't know if I'll get flagged for self promotion here or not.  You know, I'm a musician and I'm just sharing ideas for how to listen to and enjoy learning to play music.  I'm not the only one who has made tools like this.  I'm really geeking out on my roommates drumset.  I learned to play in the 90's, but I haven't had a set since then.  I've been playing 5 gallon plastic water bottles as hand drums for 30 years.  They are relatively inexpensive and common and they sound great.  Very fun to play along to your favorite music.  And if you can slow the music down, it can make it easier to play to for some songs.  As advanced as I get as musician, I still enjoy just meditating on playing some simple pattern over and over.  Lately I've been playing an Emin7 chord going to an Fmaj7 chord on the piano.  It's all white keys.  You just play an E and then skip a key etc...  Every other key for 4 notes and then just move that all up one key for the Fmaj7 chord.  I just like the droning quality of it.

[Heather Shay]

 

[Davie]

Sara Tavares died on 19 November 2023 in Lisbon, at age 45.

[Heather Shay]