What, nothing crazy was written on the right-wing blogosphere today?
blow the whole thing by missing the entrance wondering about which fingering to use
Was this on purpose, good sir?
I thought you played bass guitar? What are you part of, some 80s yngwie malmsteen ballad rock group?
Aftert the first B flat, can you move your index finger to the A? That should makes the C sharp and D pretty easy, if you're using bass guitar.
4 is the meanest thing ever said about me on the internet.
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I have an ongoing project trying to arrange a Malmsteen tune for gypsy swing guitar a la Django Reinhardt. It turns out it's damn near impossible -- his lines don't lend themselves to being swung and they're, duh, fast -- or at least the effort required is more than I'm prepared to invest in a joke.
We could try to come up with something meaner.
Dine by candlelight, fuck to oboe.
After consideration, this stretch of music is pretty easy to play. Try taking the cock out of your mouth while you're sight reading, and see if that helps.
Damnit, I tried, but apparantly everyone's arguing about flowers in another thread. Fags.
Classicalwise, let me pimp me Musorgsky piece-in-progress (at my URL).
Mozart-wise, I just found out that my next-door neighbor here in Lake Wobegon is singing Mozart's "Zaide" in Salzburg next month. Be there or be square.
That's the funny thing, Michael-- it's easy to get through it, but it feels like every fingering I can think of has some irritating drawback.
"If you're using bass guitar." What a homo.
11: Michael, I wasn't commenting on this thread, because your 10 was perfect (and made me laugh aloud for at least fifteen seconds) (and I thought would be a great thread-ender), but then you had to go and fucking ruin it.
3: Where were you, when Labs unleashed the fucking fury?
Pardon me for asking, but isn't this the place where one used to come for cock jokes? When did it turn into the World Cup of Wankage?
Yeah, there's good stuff here, but I can't believe there's a discussion about scales without any reference to castrati. Have you people lost the plot entirely? Woe is me and woe is Unfogged.
What are you on, snees, this is a great post, full of light and open space, but also struggle! conflict! It leavens the posts political and philosophical. In short, it's the best post ever, and I'm not just saying that because Labs has me tied up in his basement.
It's what I'm not on, i.e., nicotine. But I fear you may hear the gentle snip snip while you're in Labs' basement. At least you'll sing well -- in the Mineshaft.
is the Mineshaft a bar that's run out of Lab's basement? Is Labs some hideously wonderful combination of Ned Flanders and Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb?
I was buying a new chin-rest for my daughter's violin today (flat-cup Guarneri style, which she finds much more comfortable than the stock chin-rest on her violin and which costs only $10) from the Carriage House Violins vendor here at the institute, and I had the thought to ask the technician there to take a look at my bridge, which was a little twisted. Well: he showed me how to nudge it back into place if it gets skewed; and then he gave my sound-post a tap with a little metal tool, and voila! Way more volume and sustain all of a sudden.
24: That's the most elabeorate sexual metaphor I've ever seen.
Yeah but OTOH: satisfaction all round.
it's easy to get through it, but it feels like every fingering I can think of has some irritating drawback.
Are we still talking about guitar?
16 is highly appreciated, but I hope isn't meant to underrate the subtle humor of 11.
24 would be brilliant coming from anyone but m1lls.
24 would be brilliant coming from anyone but m1lls.
Pwesome!!
Has anyone done "(I could shift back and forth on the g string, but that's too messy.)" yet?
Labs is truly a treasure wrapped in a present wrapped in a discreetly packaged box.
I have an ongoing project trying to arrange a Malmsteen tune for gypsy swing guitar a la Django Reinhardt. It turns out it's damn near impossible -- his lines don't lend themselves to being swung and they're, duh, fast -- or at least the effort required is more than I'm prepared to invest in a joke.
Once in a thread on metafilter about Michael Angelo the redoubtable quonsar linked to a german guitarist playing gypsy swing really fast and it was totally cool, man, like really awesome.
Also, TMK, I'm really glad to hear about that new chin rest.
There are some total shred-monsters on the gypsy swing scene. Guys who can easily keep up with all the big-hair 80s shredders for speed but swing at the same time. Stochelo Rosenberg is the king of that stuff and is maybe the guy your are thinking of. He rules.
Check this: http://www.djangobooks.com/archives/2005/11/01/the_rosenberg_trio_dark_eyes.html#000390
Really, it's a great bit of concert footage (despite low quality).
The tempos are nuts.
Thanks Ben -- the new chin-rest is working out so well on my daughter's violin, I decided to replace my own as well, with the same style. Good idea -- it's making a huge difference to my playing. Do you play violin?
Thanks for the link Matt, a neat video. Would you happen to know of any Reinhardt and Grappelli footage floating around the net? I would love to watch them playing.
I am sure I am wrong, but isn't the choice of fingering the job of the section's principal player? (Or I am right, and that person is FL?) The idea being that everyone needs to look like they are doing the same thing or the audience will go mad.
Do you play violin?
No, but I'm teaching your daughter to play flute.
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http://www.about-django.com/news/videos/videos.php
Contains Django/Grapelli footage and a lot of the more recent and less well-known players. There's some footage of Jimmy Rosenberg -- another monster player -- ripping it up on a Hot Club tune aged 13, here:
http://www.about-django.com/news/videos/jimmy_angelo_minor_swing.htm