Pianostreet's Kindergarten

[pianowolfi]

Uncle Nils uncle Nils, the imbetter always calls me "Wolfgangztah" and he is not at all always better as he says. Do something. BWAAAAAHHHH . And da pianistimo don't believe that clarinets in A transpose a minor third down. BWAAAAHHH













 

[pianistimo]

i believe now.  i'm a believer.  lalalalala.  karijan believed me.  i mean - i believed karijan.  what's with those scores anyway.  somebody ought to highlight them and write - 'this part isn't transposed yet.'  what are you supposed to do when you're trying to read a supposedly reduced score.  brain surgery in each bar?  or do some add another line to the staff and scribble out the top line?  but then, what about the notes that don't need transposing?

ps all i really need to know i learned in kindergarten.  after that it was just money down the drain. 

[pianowolfi]

nyannanay i have anyway a better brain surgeon than you, bahhhhh!!! hee hee

[pianistimo]

well.  perhaps my problem is i haven't had the brain surgery.  i just try to perform it on each bar of music.  you know.  white out.  drawing in extra lines.  whatever seems to help the mental blockage.

truly,  my eyes have been opened on this one.  i reallythought that the score from indiana was already transposed.  some conductor i'd make.  yelling at the clarinets to get it right this time, or else.

[pianowolfi]

lalala you use adult language and me not. Only kindergarten language is allowed here, yep.    karajan believed you? sooo coool I'll tell it my friend.

[quantum]

Now what about those brass in Beethoven's time.  Transposed, yes.  Key signature, none.  Accidentals written out for every note no matter the key.  Confusing - yes.  But this only applies to brass.  Clarinets still transposed with key sig.  But they had other ones too.  Ones in C, D, Eb.  Not to mention when the score says Clarinet in B it meant B-flat. 

what ever happened to singing the alphabet song backwards, can we can we.......puhleeeze......

[nicco]

Not to mention when the score says Clarinet in B it meant B-flat. 

Doh. In Germany, and several other countries, B is B-flat, and the B that you know is actually H, so when Beethoven wrote Clarinet in B, it was perfectly legit.

C D E F G A H C

[ihatepop]

Ok, everyone please take out your books on 'Advanced Integral Calculus' please.

ihatepop

[pianistimo]

you're a bad kindergarten teacher, ihatepop.  and quantum - why do you have to complicate things further?  it's like pianowolfi bringing in the ending of the opus 106.  brass - in no key signature - and all the confetti of accidentals.  clarinets in C, D, and Eb.  how did these composer's do it?  must have spent hours.  can you imagine if they had sibelius or notion or whatever transposes the music automatically.  that would have sped up the process and then they could have composed twice the amount. 

btw, they teach computers in kindergarten now.  actually, they have computer games in preschool now. 

ZYXWVU....now try to remember your license plate number and where you parked - and all your children's birthdays - and all their social security numbers - and where you put that receipt for 'whatever' - and why you haven't responded to several letters yet - and what day it is.  my mother does suduko - but i claim that it is just something else that will mess up your brain so it won't function when you need to use it for something else.  to me, if i remember anything it has to be piano music.  perhaps in the old folks home i will still play piano?

[pianowolfi]

Ok, everyone please take out your books on 'Advanced Integral Calculus' please.

ihatepop

Nooooo I don't feel like, nahahhhhaaaa!! I want to play with my little keyboard. puhleeeze. And with these colour building bricks from the aural training. lalala they were so beautiful hehehe you can build EVERY chord with them yehessss!! mhm! Oh yeah aunt pianistimo, bring us the accidental confetti yeah yeah yeah i want them I WANT THEM!!!
so i can throw them at mcgillcomposer because he asks so difficult questions, don't tell him this

[pianistimo]

let's tie up mcgillcomposer.  then, we'll ask him some questions.  (basically, just get the answers).  this whole mentality starts in highschool when you know the answers are at the back of the book.  how long are you going to wait before you check and see if you are doing the math correctly.  time is of the essence.  if you want practice time - these compositional nightmares have to be given a time limit. basically, play dumb until the answer is handed to you on a silver platter.

say - did anyone know there is a song for the days of the month.  sing it to the 'adams family'  :  'there sunday and there's monday - there's tuesday and there's wednesday - there's thursday and there's friday - the last day's saturday  - days of the week , bum bum, days of the week.' 

[imbetter]

pianowolfi, nils will probably perceive this thread as a complaint. You know I have your approval of calling you "wolfgangztah" so why bother.

[imbetter]

i predict a warning message any minute now.


P.S. i DONT think im better than i claim

[rach n bach]

ibty don't play rules!  whahahha....

[pianowolfi]

pianowolfi, nils will probably perceive this thread as a complaint. You know I have your approval of calling you "wolfgangztah" so why bother.

I'm just kidding and I am ........Silly that's all

[imbetter]

WAHHHHHHHHHHH



wolfi hit me! im telling!

[pianowolfi]

I'm telling I'm telling, ibty hit me FIRST WAAAAAAAAHHHH

[imbetter]

WOLFI'S LYING!!!!!!!

[cmg]

That's enough, all of you!  Imbetter, go to your room!  Wolfi?  No cookies and milk for three days.  Pianistimo?  Take those ropes and handcuffs off mcgillcomposer and stand in the corner. 

Bad!  All of you.

[imbetter]

NO YOUR NOT MY MOMMY

[cmg]

No back talk! 

[pianowolfi]

That's enough, all of you!  Imbetter, go to your room!  Wolfi?  No cookies and milk for three days.  Pianistimo?  Take those ropes and handcuffs off mcgillcomposer and stand in the corner. 

Bad!  All of you.

  *sneaks in his room and blushes*

But....but...no cookies? really? isn't that a BIT hard? and NO MILK . wahhhhhh!!

[gerry]

This is beginning to sound eerily like the later stages of many other threads on this forum.

[imbetter]

*plays rachmaninoff second sonata 8 times (hahahaha i wish)*

yay my four hours is up IM FREE


its time to smuggles milk and cookies into pianowolfi's room

This is beginning to sound eerily like the later stages of many other threads on this forum.

hahaha

[cmg]

That does it!  Gerry, you always have to stir things up!  Remember those two years in reform school?  Well, you could be sent back, you know.  And wolfi and imbetter will be your roommates.

[gerry]

LLA LLA LLA LLA (I can't hear you) LLA LLA LLA LLA

[imbetter]

BE QUITE GERRY YOUR ANNOYING ME



cmg make him stop

[gerry]

I'm going home...

[pianowolfi]

its time to smuggles milk and cookies into pianowolfi's room

hmmmmmmmm yum yum yum ibty you are my friend after all 

[imbetter]

ummm....mr. cmg, can wolfi and i have a play date?

[quantum]

I'm going home...

I'm gona tell, i'm gonna tell.  Schools not ovor yet and you is runnin away.  You gonna be sent to the office.... hahaha

[pianowolfi]

*sings* see emm geee... see emm geee we are going not to beee... cee emm geee ceee emm geee...

(*tests pedagogical challenges from the other side before teaching starts again*)

[cmg]

I step out for just two hours to get some work done and I come back to this!

Okay, imbetter and wolfi.  THAT'S IT!! Reform school is just too good for you.  I'm enrolling both of you in pianistimo's Summer Bible Camp.  Maybe SHE can get you to behave!

And forget the play date, imbetter.  You're condemned to eight hours daily of Hanon exercises startring right now!

As for you, wolfi, you're hopeless.  Only Summer Bible Camp will help.  Off you go and don't stop to talk with Gerry.  I know he's hanging outside . . . smoking pot!

[pianistimo]

naptime.  everybody heads down.  if i see one head popping up - it's getting noogied.  here's some 'abosuluely mozart.'  (*secretly reads book under pillow trying to figure out if maynard solomon was right - or just making up stuff as he went along - much like the mayans).

ps summer's over.  everybody wore blue t-shirts and drank gallons of lemonade.  they're all zombies now for their parents.  i think it was a combination of heat-stroke and too many movies.  but, we do offer a two-week 'how to play the organ without looking at your feet' at the nearby st. francis hospital/church - combo.  people can go to the hospital quickly if they have an injury - or play for patients.  it's just a way to reach out to the community.

sometimes elderly people stop by on their way to the fourth floor.  basically, that floor people never come out of - so if they hear a little bit of music before it happens - it puts them in a better frame of mind.  basically, if you remember how kindergarten teachers were nice and never made you feel idiotic for standing near them and looking at them sideways and then asking questions - you'll be great for this two-week seminar that is blazingly out in the open and done as people pass by and gawk.

usually we start with dvorak's new world symphony because the bass-line is whole steps.  don't want to get too fancy with the feet on the first lesson.  we'll save the goldbergs for the finale.  each of you will get one variation.  remember the word 'passacagli' and think - it will repeat.  unlike some kind of fantasy where you're doing a chromatic heel-toe.  have you ever tried to play just 'heel heeel heel heel'  it's really difficult.

(we have the seventy year old hymnal you can use to create your own variations - as well).  sometimes they relate to songs they know better than having to ask 'what piece did you just play?'  hey, we could even start a 'don't gag your mother' choir.  basically, no matter how terrible the voices are - they meet every tuesday night and just sing.  even the people who are off-pitch.  it's a way to just let everything out.  probably helps them sleep better at night.

[pianowolfi]

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As for you, wolfi, you're hopeless.  Only Summer Bible Camp will help.  Off you go and don't stop to talk with Gerry.  I know he's hanging outside . . . smoking pot!

Pot? really? how can you smoke a pot? Is that cool? I mean.. the heat--- until this metal smokes...wow that must be fun to watch--- something like fireworks LOL

[quantum]

There shall be no more play dates, all but one remain.  To a Biblecampler, go!

[pianowolfi]

*escapes through backdoor and watches gerry smoking a pot (or is it a pan?). whispers defiantly "no i won't go to bible camp"*

[jlh]

Uncle Nils uncle Nils, the imbetter always calls me "Wolfgangztah" and he is not at all always better as he says. Do something. BWAAAAAHHHH . And da pianistimo don't believe that clarinets in A transpose a minor third down. BWAAAAHHH
 

I could not help but think back to a similar discussion with Alec Baldwin, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin on Brian Whitman's talk show on WABC radio.

https://movies.crooksandliars.com/Whitman-Baldwin-Hannity-Levin.mp3

 

[ahinton]

naptime.  everybody heads down.  if i see one head popping up - it's getting noogied.  here's some 'abosuluely mozart.'  (*secretly reads book under pillow trying to figure out if maynard solomon was right - or just making up stuff as he went along - much like the mayans).

ps summer's over.  everybody wore blue t-shirts and drank gallons of lemonade.  they're all zombies now for their parents.  i think it was a combination of heat-stroke and too many movies.  but, we do offer a two-week 'how to play the organ without looking at your feet' at the nearby st. francis hospital/church - combo.  people can go to the hospital quickly if they have an injury - or play for patients.  it's just a way to reach out to the community.

sometimes elderly people stop by on their way to the fourth floor.  basically, that floor people never come out of - so if they hear a little bit of music before it happens - it puts them in a better frame of mind.  basically, if you remember how kindergarten teachers were nice and never made you feel idiotic for standing near them and looking at them sideways and then asking questions - you'll be great for this two-week seminar that is blazingly out in the open and done as people pass by and gawk.

usually we start with dvorak's new world symphony because the bass-line is whole steps.  don't want to get too fancy with the feet on the first lesson.  we'll save the goldbergs for the finale.  each of you will get one variation.  remember the word 'passacagli' and think - it will repeat.  unlike some kind of fantasy where you're doing a chromatic heel-toe.  have you ever tried to play just 'heel heeel heel heel'  it's really difficult.

(we have the seventy year old hymnal you can use to create your own variations - as well).  sometimes they relate to songs they know better than having to ask 'what piece did you just play?'  hey, we could even start a 'don't gag your mother' choir.  basically, no matter how terrible the voices are - they meet every tuesday night and just sing.  even the people who are off-pitch.  it's a way to just let everything out.  probably helps them sleep better at night.

Is all of the above your version of stream-of-consciousness writing (or maybe stream-of-semi-consciousness in your case)? What on earth does all of this mean? I recognise most of the words, but the sense seems worryingly absent...

Best,

Alistair

[jlh]

Is all of the above your version of stream-of-consciousness writing (or maybe stream-of-semi-consciousness in your case)? What on earth does all of this mean? I recognise most of the words, but the sense seems worryingly absent...

ps all i really need to know i learned in kindergarten.  after that it was just money down the drain. 

Is that a sufficient answer, Alistair? 

[ahinton]

Is that a sufficient answer, Alistair? 

I suppose that it pretty much fits the case - although there are two ways of interpreting it, of course, the other of which would be an indicator of immense precocity(!)...

Best,

Alistair

[cmg]

I suppose that it pretty much fits the case - although there are two ways of interpreting it, of course, the other of which would be an indicator of immense precocity(!)...

Best,

Alistair

 . . . or, a preposterous absence of perspicacity, sir.

[pianistimo]

cmg, did you see underdog as well?  you know - the assistant who only picks long 'p' words when responding to simon bar jonah, the mad scientist?

[cmg]

cmg, did you see underdog as well?  you know - the assistant who only picks long 'p' words when responding to simon bar jonah, the mad scientist?

I haven't, pianistimo.  I wish I had younger kids in my life, as you do.  It would give me an excuse to explore their world.

I do like alliteration for its own sake, however.  The posts of ahinton often open the door to free associations along alliterative lines.  That's their primary attraction for me. 

[ahinton]

The posts of ahinton often open the door to free associations along alliterative lines.  That's their primary attraction for me. 

Oh dear - it would therefore appear that there's something wrong with you, or with the way I express things in words, or both. Can't do anything about you, so my message to myself had better be "must do better"!...

Best,

Alistair

[pianowolfi]

Bwaaahhh I don't play with you all anymore . You use adult language allways, yep Me not undastand nothing *rides away on hobby horse*

[berrt]

. . . or, a preposterous absence of perspicacity, sir.

... or, a perfidious example of peremptoriness

[rach n bach]

... or, a perfidious example of peremptoriness

Berrt no play rules too.... bwaaaahhhh.... no alis, no cmg.... me go play with woofy...

[pianowolfi]

ooohh yeahhhhh rocky let's hide their keyboard and their lego bricks hee heeeeee

[rach n bach]

hehheehe lets dooo.... and steel deir roking horses tooooo....