Please wait...
Vince-q, I will pass the suggestions along to him. The spit argument was all I could add, as I can't play a note. I can play simple tunes by ear, but never learned how to play anything, and the current discussion goes way over my head :-)
Heh... one guy wrote music for which the part I received for euphonium
was in a theoretical key. I had to deal with double sharps and double
flats.
Play in C#####bbbbb#b#b###bbb
It's really easy.
My two big boys are tone deaf. We realized it with Shlomo when he was preparing
for his Bar Mitzvah, but he decided to memorize and work really really really
hard, and in the end he read (sang) for his Bar Mitzvah beautifully. We realized
it also with Akiva as he started preparing for his Bar Mitzvah, but he doesn't
feel aany compelling need to work hard at this. I used to sing all the time,
but the kids never join in, and I'm wondering if there is any way to make
Akiva be less tone deaf, and I'm wondering if Yaakov will turn out tone deaf
too and if there is anything I can do about it now, while he is little.
Adina has been teaching herself to play keyboard so it's probably unlikely that she is tone deaf. I mean, she loves a song and plays around till she figures out how to play parts of it.
Adina has been teaching herself to play keyboard so it's probably unlikely that she is tone deaf. I mean, she loves a song and plays around till she figures out how to play parts of it.
Hmm...
If you have a keyboard, you might have them sit where they cannot see the keys, and play two notes. As if they are going up in pitch or down in pitch.
If they can't tell you, they're tone deaf.
Otherwise, they could simply not be practiced at singing.
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Mon Sep 29 2014 11:10:35 EDT
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vince-q <vince-q@ns1.netk2ne.net>
You know the state of music has truly deteriorated when, now, we have a "style"
called "grunge"....
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Mon Sep 29 2014 12:08:20 EDT
from
vince-q <vince-q@ns1.netk2ne.net>
Sep 29 2014 8:20am from fleeb @uncnsrd (Uncensored)
Polka was the punk rock of its day, y'know.
Heh - still is! ;)
I was just thinking that Soundgarden's Superunknown has been out for 20 years
now. It was the first CD I bought which wasn't classical or a movie score.
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Sun Oct 05 2014 21:56:06 EDT
from
vince-q <vince-q@ns1.netk2ne.net>
Am I the only one who hears "tons" of Puccini in just about everything Andrew
Lloyd Weber has written starting with Cats?
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Wed Oct 15 2014 13:00:08 EDT
from
vince-q <vince-q@ns1.netk2ne.net>
Oct 15 2014 7:29am from IGnatius T Foobar @uncnsrd (Uncensored)
Yes, but Puccini was just stealing from John Williams.
No no no no no no!
WAGNER was stealing from John Williams!
Pretty much everyone stole from John Williams. Wagner, Puccini, Holst, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Sibelius, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Korngold, Perischetti, Strauss ... all of their stuff was retroactively ripped off from John Williams' completely original compositions.
...and the pathetic part of that is that you can use tensor calculus and
string theory to mathematically demonstrate that what you just said is (mathematically)
possible! <shrug>