...because I was up at 4:30 and played piano until 7am.
I practices nothing but the lydian augmented mode in all 12 keys. I "composed" songs that use the scale. I played in different time sigs 3/4 4/4 5/4 7/4 9/8 and 11/8. I played along with my drum machine for these different rhythms.
The lydian augmented mode is a lydian scale with a raised 5th. ? Chords from the lydian augmented mode: maj7#5, maj7(#5,#11), maj13#5.
The maj7#5 chord can also be thought of as a slash chord, Ex: Cmaj7#5 = E/C ? Compare the major scale to the lydian augmented scale below and check out the differences.
Ionian scale C D E F G A B Lydian Augmented scale C D E F# G# A B
Then from 8:15am to 9:30am I put on Huun Huur Tu and worked on my sygyt and xoomei singing.
Then I made Moroccan Lentil Soup, it should be ready in about 3 hours. The soup has nothing to do with playing harmonica.
What did you do today to better yourself tomorrow?
Well, today afternoon I had a small gig (12 minutes) in live playing's world record marathon in "Nuclear Nightclub" here at Oulu. Then in the evening I played slide guitar for two hours after I got my kid to sleep. First I recorded some backing track with my Zoom H4n with the guitar and then solo'ed over that. I'd say this was pretty musical day and surely makes me better harpist tomorrow... :)
Now it's time to go to bed and get some sleep - actually it's in sleep where most of the connections happen with learning, so it's part of the practice. ;)
Today I took Transcribe! software, downloaded jason Ricci How to play fast lesson No 1 and wrote down the solo he plays at the end of the video. It is about 1 min of pure torture for me, some of it I can play straight away some other parts will take weeks. It will be difficult but hey, Russians don't give up!!! This is how I will be a better player tomorrow...
/What did you do today to better yourself tomorrow?/
Leonid (Leo from London Harps? Will here...) mentions torture...
Well...
I tormented the top end of various harmonicas (and probably my neighbours, passers-by on the street and - poor things - any cats and dogs in the vicinity) with my ongoing efforts at TB blow-bending with tongue slaps, chords, octaves thrown in (in a Jazz Gillum / Gwen Foster / El Watson kind of way) for quite some time.
Well this one suprised me. First impression is one guy is playing a cigar box guitar like intrument, another looks like he is mashing potatoes and there are a couple of other odd intruments as well. Don't have a clue what they are singing or chanting...they could very well be chanting..."John, you are an ignorant dork, what an ignorant dork you are." But I got to admit...it's holding my attention and then the one guy goes into a crazy low chanting voice, and it ends with the guy making the same train sound I make when starting out "Orange Blossom Special". Very interesting stuff!
I'm familiar with "throat singing",but it always throws me for a loop. I can fake it a little bit,and it freaks out my friends...kinda fun after a few beers. It seems like they are producing two unison or octave notes and tweaking it with the tounge. Buddah you should start doing this through the harp as a modern tribute to Sonny Terry...just jokes,just jokes.
Me Im just about to leave my Body right now float into another worlds time zone:)
Butt i won't be flying no where Near Uranus some nasty Poo flys out of that sector:)
speak to Martians find in nice white Fuffy cloud and play Harp on and be closer to the Blues Gods:)
i'll be back in 5 minutes but 5 life times will have passed me by,,but i will be a vertuoso in 5 mins
Move over Gusso Ricci,, Mich Mich Mich or However you say his last name Chris Mud Guts i don't Bloody know how to say his name Bro's you know who i meen:)
PS Bro's i say this with a big smile on my face:) and a tongue in my Cheek :):):):):)
That sheet was WICKED!!!! If I had a hookah, listening to that stuff would make me bring it out. But I really liked the topic and where it went. Damn this forum is fun!!! Yea, I'll take some soup, and cook me some beans in that skillet lookin hobo guitar snatch they are squeakin out of.....
Yesterday was day one of my Black Belt grading in Kickboxing. I'm Bruised, battered and tired after 6 hrs of pure punishment. Today is day two of the grading, another 5 hrs of worse punishment. Hopefully by 4pm it will all be worth it, then i can get back to playin some harp:) ----------
Yesterday I read 200 lines of the Aeneid (in Latin), read a short story by Pratolini (in Italian), made some further attempts to memorise the Arabic alphabet, studied planar graphs, noodled for 10 minutes on the harp, watched a disc of Buffy (season 2), played Island Paradise on Facebook, ate some toasted corned-beef sandwiches with horseradish, ate some three-bean, tomato and mozzarella salad. Today I've spent about an hour shitting and reading 200 lines of the Aeneid. I've played Island Paradise. I'll spend this afternoon at my girlfriend's. This evening I'll play bridge. Might spend 10 minutes noodling on the harp. My noodling gets more fluid day by day, like my stools. ---------- Kinda hot in these rhinos!
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I took a swim in the Dead Sea at the Kempinksi Resort (check it on the web). Then I swam in the shallow pool with the kids. Then I had a cold Amstel draught. Then I swam in the "Lazy River" pool. Then it was over to the bar for lunch with the family. Then back in the Dead Sea for a mud pack and a float. Shower, back in the pool near the main bar. Read Ibn Warriq's polemic on Islam while lounging on a chair. Caught some rays. Now I'm headed off to the cigar bar for a Cohiba Robusto.
I've been training to increase my endurance. I train vigorously once a week -- to the point that after the training, I can't even lift my arm to wash my face. I hate the feeling of Delayed Onset Muscle soreness (DOMS) which is essentially muscle damage but when I rest and rejuvenate -- the next week it begins again. I suppose I will be able to hold a harmonica case and an amp without getting tired...
Hey Andrew -- why are you learning the Arabic alphabet? I grew up ignoring Arabic when it was extremely accessible to me to learn. Now in my adult years I'm left taking on-the-go lessons from friends @ university.
Ev630 In a previous thread I believe you've mentioned knowing how to speak Arabic. Where are you from? ---------- I could be bound by a nutshell and still count myself a king of infinite space
OdaHUMANITY!
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I dont know how many of you are familier with Paul Pena,but you might like this...it's an extra from a documentary called "Ghegis Blues". They used to play it alot on IFC...very much worth watching.
I think it's too soon to say that I'm actually learning Arabic - I made an attempt from a book (Teach Yourself Arabic) 25 years ago, but the pronunciation was impossible and I didn't get as far as going to night school. Recently I found the same book, hardback for £1, and the font was more legible than in the paperback with its cheap, absorbent paper which makes the font illegible if too small, so I bought it, thinking that YouTube would be a pronunciation resource that wasn't available 25 years ago. In theory I could be learning it in conjunction with Coptic and Hieroglyphs (having studied Greek Papyrology and Hellenistic Egypt as part of a Classics MA I dropped out of), except that I'm too old for that kind of heavy duty stuff now, so it's only a vague interest. ---------- Kinda hot in these rhinos!
Started recording my playing today. What a disappointment! My tone sucks and my note to note movement is sloppy. I now pay much more attention to these things while playing. I also continually work on one new tune until I can play it through with a minimum of difficulty then move to the next level of difficulty. So I practice the drill and hard stuff until I can't take it anymore then move to the tunes I've mastered and work on tone etc.
In my spare time I ride my mountain bike up the steepest hills I can find to increase my VO2max to build my low hole draw endurance level.
Also went to Barrett's workshop a few weeks ago and happy I did.
Today I just wake up. Yesterday I wake up in my girlfriends's friends appartment and while other slept I practiced chromatic harmonica - 20 min of dominant 7th arpeggios chromatic exercises, 20 min repeating Donna Lee, 20 min of playing familiar melodies in Ab minor. Then I ate and I went to make some deals. While walking I practiced diatonic harmonicas. 10 minutes of breathing exercises with metronome, around 10 min improvisation with metronome (working on phrasing and space), then about an hour I spent on 5th position, I need it for new tune in our band, last gigs I hit some wrong notes while playing it (I need to play swing in dorian mode). I played some familiar melodies which I usually play in 4th or 3rd position (yesterdays, michelle, summertime), I practice dorian scale in 5th position (7 od is still PITA in context for G harp), then I improvised working on phrase endings and space. ---------- http://myspace.com/harmonicaboris
I was totally captivated by that video. Not my thing, but it goes to show that pretty much ANY kind of music played well enough gets my interest and respect.
As for what I did to better myself? I cleaned some harps (something I hardly ever do.) I played very little today. It's Sunday. I rested. Yeah, that's it. ---------- /Greg
Yeah, as soon as I saw it I ordered Sixty Horses in my Herd from Amazon. They are quite prolific and I don't have much money, so I know know what other CDs to buy (if any). Plus they are among the many ethnic groups who collaborate with the worst kind of rock star, which always pisses me off. Sixty Rolls Royces in my Fleet. Rock Stars who collaborate with great ethnic groups remind me of those American millionaires who buy culture. ---------- Kinda hot in these rhinos!
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