Hello ARdith,

On Tue 2039-Mar-08 21:06, Ardith Hinton (1:153/716) wrote to Anybody Interested:

AH>     Improvisation      -- what we do when the music falls down 

Also what we do when we're running out of songs to play and
want to make them last longer.

AH>     Chords             -- something organists play with one finger 

Depends on the organ I guess, but never was able to do that
with a Hammond b-3 (and glad that wasn't available there.)

AH>     Discords           -- something organists play with two fingers 

Oh yeah, especially if you're fat fingered or had a little
bit too much whiskey by the end of the night.

AH>     Suspended Chords   -- useful for lynching the vocalist

Known a few of those for which that would have been
appropriate.

AH>     Time Signatures    -- trivial details often irrelevant to
AH> drummers 

WOrked with a few who resembled that remark .  I
endeavor not to.

For drummers for whom that was true often dynamics are
trivial as well.

AH>     Melody             -- an ancient, now almost extinct art in song
AH> writing 

Oh yeah, that's for sure.  Back when I was doing studio for
hire I did a rap album for a young man.  Never again!!!

Then there was the alternative band, not bad melodies, some
good words, but they wanted to run their vocals through
these awful guitar stomp boxes and a guitar amp and have
that track dominate over the actual capture of the singer's
voice in the room.  


Regards,
           Richard
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