Darn Good Stuff Just Fer Youse

December 10, 2020Uncategorizedblues, classical, ejgold, folk, gorby, gorebagg, guitar, jal, jazz, Music, reincarnation, singinggorebagg

I seldom watch an entire video, but this caught my attention the whole time through. This should serve as an inspiration to you — just follow your own path and you will set yourself free.

If you have a few more minutes, how about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxi2GQ5SEVo

And here’s the result:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwMCtKlFfXg

So there you have it — my secret method of creating multitrack blues videos, with drums, bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitar and solo and group vocals, up to a total of 8 distinct tracks, and I don’t have to ship them over the internet, match them up in sync, or wait a couple of weeks to get the tracks.

I’ll be going over the secret of multitrack blues videos at this morning’s meeting, so don’t miss out on it — be there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sylGjWa3lyw

Gotta go — have posted a buncha videos, and I’m mighty tuckered out. Maybe I’ll see you at the morning ZOOM ROOM.

See You At The Top!!!

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In the Style of…

October 20, 2020Uncategorizedboogie, classical, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, happybirthday, jal, jazz, reincarnationgorebagg

Much stuff has flowed under the thing since I heard pianists play the game of “Happy Birthday”, in which the musician tries to guess how each composer might have done it, and of course they started with Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and such, but they often wandered into jazz and other musical artforms.

I thought I might search out some examples for you, and here they are, in order of findingness:

Wasn’t she terrific? Talent at the keyboard and composing skill go along with the game — it’s really not the same if you play a more or less rancid brand of piano, and I certainly wouldn’t elect to include it here. Continue reading →

Tell a Story, Sing a Song

October 21, 2013Uncategorizedbacking, bardo, blues, buzz, classical, ejgold, folk, gorby, gorebagg, harp, jazz, kazoo, modern, Music, pop, song, story, swing, trackgorebagg

If there are any Official Secrets to Music, these are they:

1. Tell a Story — this simply means any story about the simple nursery song that you’ve selected for this exercise (such as “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, or “Jack & Jill” or “Sing a Song of Sixpence” — any story will do, including that there isn’t one, ie; a rambling exploration of random notes and measures. Usually it means a story, pure & simple, describing the song’s major points, such as the fact that the farmer lived in a dell, had a wife, many chicks, ducks, geese, horses, cattle, swine, and a couple of wild and crazy dogs with a penchant for handouts. A story like that generally begins with a beginning, goes on a while in the middle, and stops at the end. The MIDDLE part is generally about the obstruction, the pain, the misery or the angst of it all. A typical song story is “my baby done left me”, whether you hear it in blues, folk, pop, ballad, country-western, jazz or classical, it’s always about relationships of one kind or another. That’d be human/human (read as: “human over human”) and bottle/human and a whole chain of seductions that read more or less the same. The story is told verbally before the instrument is sounded. The STORY should NOT take more than 1 minute to tell, especially the “Boy Meets Girl, Girl Gets Drownded, Boy Gets Hanged sort of murder-ballad you’ll find commonly in folk music.

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