What's on your mind now?

[fleetfingers]

Happy New Year!!!! It is 2010 here for another 6 hours and 20 minutes. Still deciding whether I'll stay up that long.

[littletune]

YES! It's snowing again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!!     

[Bob]

Cool dream.  I had unlimited speed and good control on the piano.  I dreamt I was playing through some pieces with fingers flying.  That's what I noticed after the dream.  During the dream I was just into the music.  Very cool. 

[birba]

You should have grabbed the moment and become lucid!  (I know. Easier said then done...)

[littletune]

We were soooo bad at music theory today  specially with dictations  I know I was really confused  and I got one whole bar wrong!    (I don't think that ever happened too me before!) oh well... I don't know why that was but we were learning A major and then we had a dictation for the first time in A major and then one bar was too high to sing and the teacher said we should sing it one octave lower and I just got really confused  well I was just really confused anyway the whole time even when we were just checking the homework I was saying names of the notes wrong all the time!    ... I really hope I will be better next time!!!

[Bob]

I could see A major being too high and too low for people.

[Bob]

It's not wise to "chug a little" from those little baking flavoring bottle really quickly, esp. if it has an "easy to pour" lid.   

Not that I know of course.

[Bob]

Cheers! 

[Bob]

I almost forgot.... Amusing quick story.  

Today I used I tried out a piano at a different place.  I dropped something and couldn't find it, so I was looking all around.  I pulled the piano bench back and thought I would tilt the bench lid up in case what I was looking for was on the bench and would slide off.  What I was looking for was clear and small.  Easily missed.  (And I did find it eventually.)  So I tilted the piano bench lid up....

What do I see?

A condom.  Thank God it was still in a wrapper.  Yuck.  Some people, guys I guess, must be very safe about their piano practice.  


*Bob goes and washes his hands again.*


Or... it could have a been from a saxophone player... practicing safe sax.

[Bob]

Kid shoots his mother.  Two sisters see him.  The 911 recording has him saying he shot his mother.  His plea?  Not guilty.  

Not that anyone should expect him to be rational.

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110109/ap_on_sc/us_sci_music_on_the_brain;_ylt=AnWDeU1jNO7pZvtD0ixq_0MDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTJ2Y3E4OGp2BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwMTA5L3VzX3NjaV9tdXNpY19vbl90aGVfYnJhaW4EcG9zAzE4BHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDc3R1ZHlsb3ZlbXVz


Not much of a study now that I read through it better.  Science confirms the obvous again.

[littletune]

Ok well... so this music theory is becoming a disaster!!!      I don't know why but last three times we had music theory our dictations were horrible!!! We all make sooo many mistakes that the teacher even says to some that she won't even correct it because there's just too many mistakes..... well I don't know about others but it's just too fast for me!! I just get lost and I can't even write notes that fast and then I'm changing and correcting things from before and I miss the new things and I get REALLY confused and so it's just a mess in the end  ... just bad!!! and I was sooo happy already because in November and December I got all dictations (about 4 or 5) completely right without any mistakes!!! And now last three times it's been just horrible every time worse!!! Just a disaster!!! I'm not doing this music theory exam this year! 
Oh well 

[thalbergmad]

I always detested theory myself, but I rather wish I had stuck at it a little longer.

Thal

[Bob]

Don't worry too much about ear training.  That stuff ramps up steeply pretty quick.  Just revisit it later if you can.  I remember even the vocalists who were whizzes with ear training in my classes eventually started struggling at some point when the difficulty kept increasing.

One trick I learned was to use whatever material was being focused on in that section.  It's not learning anything, more survival.  You don't have to hear it, but you can write something correctly and on topic and get some credit that way. 

[Bob]

Tuesday is 1/11/11.

[thalbergmad]

Not in England it ain't.

We have 11/1/11

Thal

[oxy60]

Don't worry too much about ear training.  That stuff ramps up steeply pretty quick.  Just revisit it later if you can.  I remember even the vocalists who were whizzes with ear training in my classes eventually started struggling at some point when the difficulty kept increasing.

One trick I learned was to use whatever material was being focused on in that section.  It's not learning anything, more survival.  You don't have to hear it, but you can write something correctly and on topic and get some credit that way. 

When I studied (back in the dark ages) there was no "ear training." When I see it written about here I wonder what is the purpose of the training. Sometimes I think it is just to fill out an academic package.

[Bob]

It's learning to hear and sing back the things you learn in theory.  I found it very useful, although I don't think my teachers had everything lined up quite right.

[Bob]

Not in England it ain't.

We have 11/1/11

Thal

A palindrome.  

Wait until 2013. March 1st, 2013.  In England or any place that uses day-month-year format.  1-3-13.   And March 1st, 2010 is a Friday.  Friday the 13th... 1-3-13.

[Bob]

"Il letto è opera del povero."

   *Bob is cracking up.*  I've never heard that before.  I can get two interpretations out of that, but one is a lot funnier. 

*Bob is easily amused.*

[littletune]

Don't worry too much about ear training.  That stuff ramps up steeply pretty quick.  Just revisit it later if you can.  I remember even the vocalists who were whizzes with ear training in my classes eventually started struggling at some point when the difficulty kept increasing.

One trick I learned was to use whatever material was being focused on in that section.  It's not learning anything, more survival.  You don't have to hear it, but you can write something correctly and on topic and get some credit that way. 

Thanks Bob Well but I kinda have to worry about it because it's 80% of the grade  so it's really important! I really have to start practicing it somehow!! And then I'll see if I can get any better at it!

[littletune]

I have soooo much to do!!! And I want to post a lot of things but I just don't have time now....... well I figured out something about how I could practice that ear training thing... I don't know if it will work yet but I'll try... 
Well my mum and dad are at a concert now with my aunt and her husband...  and I have to write something for my mum (cause she'll be back late and she won't have so much time) I mean she has this book and I have to type the story on the computer for her... and I also cleaned up the dishes. And I still have so much to translate and it's really not easy!!! And I just finished practicing piano now...  oh well.... going now... wanna write as much as I can for my mum till she comes back!!!!!! 

[Bob]

*Bob is amused.*

[Bob]

How to be... "that weird guy."

 

Watch out.  He'll try to kill to you at the end of the video.   "Ahhhh!....."  He's come forward in time from the 1980s to get you... with his fingers.    

[Bob]

 

[workaholic]

I'm thinking about peace of mind. 

[littletune]

Well... something horrible! I haven't been practicing piano today! AT ALL!  not even a little! I'm not sure why I just didn't want to! I don't know why! And now it's too late cause I can't play now anymore because of the neighbours!    I wish I could just play without anyone hearing me play!

[pianowolfi]

Well... something horrible! I haven't been practicing piano today! AT ALL!  not even a little! I'm not sure why I just didn't want to! I don't know why! And now it's too late cause I can't play now anymore because of the neighbours!    I wish I could just play without anyone hearing me play!

I guess you are a very nice person and you love to do things for others, like for instance this translation. It's good, I mean, you are very idealistic and you are a loving person. But you can get very easily distracted from your own stuff, through thousands of additional "jobs" that people "require" from you or that you like yourself but actually you get overwhelmed. I mean, please you are 12 and you are at school, and you need to do your job there and you need your piano practice time and your practice time for music theory and not thousands of additional obligations which you just accept because you feel like "omg this person wants that from me, now I need to do it"..

You know, one lesson I learned from life is this: people can easily make you do their job. But they will never do your job. Because it's only you who can do it.

So, learning to say no is very important.

[littletune]

Thanks Wolfi!    Yes it's all kinda confusing... and I should do more for school anyway (cause my dad gets really angry when I don't do things for school) but I wanna do so many things! And now it's like I like doing all things more than doing things for school! Even if it's something difficult like this translation... Ooooh well.......

[Bob]

[pianissimo123]

I'm thinking about the auction I just went to with my family. One of the dudes there spoke in the key of B major! ._O I was like. Srsly. Need to get a life now. DARNIT ! WHY MUST MUSIC FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE?!    I think his crazy voice is still rambling around inside my head...

Now I'm wondering- how on earth do those guys talk so fast? One of life's many mysteries I suppose.

[birba]

ARe you sure it was B major and not b minor? 

[oxy60]

I'm thinking about the auction I just went to with my family. One of the dudes there spoke in the key of B major! ._O I was like. Srsly. Need to get a life now. DARNIT ! WHY MUST MUSIC FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE?!    I think his crazy voice is still rambling around inside my head...

Now I'm wondering- how on earth do those guys talk so fast? One of life's many mysteries I suppose.

They work at it, hours on end. I think the auctioneer would chant in a minor key to build tension. Next time you go, bring a pitch pipe. For years I never left home without one.

BTW, how are you healing up, Birba? Hope all is well!

[birba]

Thanks, oxy60! (By the way, you must explain the origins of that alias)
Biding my time waiting for my bone transplant to grow.  Hoping by June to finally throw away these crutches.  In the meantime, I have lots of time to practise...  A lot of Liszt celebrations coming up!

[oxy60]

Thanks, oxy60! (By the way, you must explain the origins of that alias)
Biding my time waiting for my bone transplant to grow.  Hoping by June to finally throw away these crutches.  In the meantime, I have lots of time to practise...  A lot of Liszt celebrations coming up!

No big mystery. I graduated from Occidental College in 1960 and was a member of the Phi Mu Alpha music fraternity. I chose oxy60 rather than my fraternity60 because people might recognize it easier. On such a worldwide forum as this there just might be another music major from my school.

Don't rush your recovery and be glad you chose a sit down instrument.

[Bob]

https://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport/browse_thread/thread/7a880d34d64054b3?hl=en

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/video/odd-15749658/piano-bar-mystery-intrigues-miami-23972698

[birba]

https://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport/browse_thread/thread/7a880d34d64054b3?hl=en

That sort of explains why he insisted on having his heart cut out after his death. 

[theone7]

1) Why I'm the only person on my team at work today (it snowed heavily over NYC and everyone called out.) However, being as I live in Manhattan, everyone assumed I can't have commute issues.

2) If I'm really going to get better at the piano. I'm 25, and didn't play between ages 13 - 23, so I lost a lot of ground. All the famous pianists started at like 8 and played non-stop since. Am I wasting my time? Is it too late for me to catch up? Will I EVER play La Campanella?

3) Its Thursday...what bar/club to go to tonight? Thursday is like one giant pre-game for the weekend ahead. I shant waste it.

4) Its 12:06...whats for lunch?

[Bob]

Started at 8?  I thought they started around 3 or 4.  Eight sounds late for a professional.

[Bob]

Not that great though.  Just plot information.  Information, no music.  I didn't make it through the whole thing. 

[musicluvr49]

Nervous about a piano audition. 

[Bob]

 

If you pay for it, someone will sell you a degree.


https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110127/od_nm/us_beatles_degree_odd;_ylt=ArRv0CDNOxw48Wz2DkawkAvtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJxNGhmOWYxBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwMTI3L3VzX2JlYXRsZXNfZGVncmVlX29kZARwb3MDMQRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA3VuaXZlcnNpdHlhdw--



I guess... It's a masters so it's topping off another music degree that way.  A focus in popular music.  Being that specific with a musi group sounds like a stretch though.  You could get a degree in the London Symphony or New York Phil. 

[Bob]

Oh those whacky Chinese. 

https://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110131/ts_yblog_thecutline/chinese-air-force-drill-looks-awfully-similar-to-top-gun

That is one of the dumbest things I've heard of for awhile.  Sounds like there's a bit of a track record going for them though.  Duh.

[m1469]

I got caught in the "Interesting Observations" thread, of all things, a couple of nights ago and I couldn't stop reading it.  Woah, it's a scary thread.  haha ... but, I actually needed some of the stuff from it, as it turns out!

[littletune]

Happy anniversary my dear beautiful piano!!!!!          Today is exactly 1 year since I got my piano!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     

[Bob]

Not to dampen that mood.  Haha...

[Bob]

Think I see a pattern in the audience.... 

[Bob]

Amusing job rejection letter....


Dear Applicant,

Thank you for applying for the __________ position.  We appreciate your application efforts.  The position attracted many outstanding candidates.  Unfortunately, you are not one of them.  Good luck in your future efforts.




Other random thought....

Argerich has man hands?

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10:28 in....  Is that Christopher Walkin?   With a pompadour?  Playing the violin (or just sitting and watching at this point)?

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Liu-Bolin-Disappearing-Act/ss/events/en/020311liubolin#photoViewer=/ydownload/20110203/photos_net_web_en/1296771211