I'm addressing this to you Richard, because I pick on Ardith too much. It 
applies equally.

-=> Ardith Hinton wrote to Richard Webb <=-

 AH> Hi, Richard!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

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

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


 AH>           Yup.  :-)

"Where's that confounded bridge?"

 AH>  Chords          -- something organists play with one finger

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


 AH>           I imagine you know more about such things than I
 AH> do!  The definitions were meant to be taken with a grain of
 AH> salt, however, and this was the first in a group of three
 AH> which IMHO made a rather nice parallelism... [chuckle].

MOD: Chords  -- something accordionists play with one finger
PS: I just read your next post, so the MOD stands. 

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

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

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

We get all the blame, even if it *was* the base player/horn section! 


 AH>           Some people may be attracted to certain instruments because
 AH> they like making a lot of noise and/or because they believe
 AH> (erroneously) that they won't have to work as hard as
 AH> others do.  I've known folks who took up drums in order to
 AH> avoid learning to read music... I've known folks who took
 AH> up the sax because they thought it would be easier than the
 AH> clarinet... and I knew one who took up the trumpet because
 AH> she thought it could play only three notes!  As a teacher I
 AH> was often asked which instrument was easiest.  My response
 AH> was "Whichever *you* want to play more than any other."  I
 AH> figured they'd be having such a good time it wouldn't seem
 AH> like work at all.  But whatever the reason(s) for their
 AH> choice people use an instrument in a manner which reflects
 AH> their personality....  :-))

I've mentioned here earlier to Ardith, that when I was a wee lad I saw 
these guitar players spend more time tuning their instruments than playing 
the ruddy songs. "Nope, I just want to play!" Then, I counted the lugs on 
my snare drum and later realized I had to double that number and adjust 
(mostly) all of those if my kick rattled the snares!!! !!! !!!   

Boy, did I pick it wrong! 

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

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


 AH>           Uh-huh.  Rap isn't my cup of tea either....  :-)

Smartest entertainers of our days! As mentioned, who needs to carry a tune 
these days or even annunciate the "lyrics"? I've hated on the
current state 
of "popular" music for years, but George Clinton said it best. In
a mumble, 
"Whatever you say - and we tried - Rap music brought blacks and whites 
together for better or worse." (Paraphrased)

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

I mentioned Shirley Manson last year, and that band Garbage fits that 
description *exactly*. A couple of compatriots were extolling how they would 
run the snare drum through a Sans Amp, and Fuzz Box the electric keys, 
bla-bla-bla. Shirley has a great instrument, but the "producers" (Four or 
five of them rounded out the rest of the lineup.) wet dream seemed to 
obfuscate it every chance it could. Now, Shirley's no Patsy Kline but she 
has plenty to offer. Had it not been for those boys that discovered her, we 
would likely never know her name but, I'd still love to hear her do a 
duet with The Holly Crow Trio.



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