What's on your mind now?

[yewtree]

[Bob]

I still want to find that music stand that will be freestanding, have some kind of pivot or snake arm, and position a book or music where ever you want in front of you, while seated at the keyboard. 

[Bob]

I'm going to bet jack squat happens with Trump's impeachment going to the Senate.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/politics/senate-impeachment-trial-starts/index.html


I think it's something like 53 Republicans in the Senate vs. 48 Democrats.  The House vote was almost split evenly, so they'll probably do that again.  And then there's "only" another year left.

I'd really be surprised if Trump gets reelected though.

[j_tour]

Well.  There's politics.  As an American it is my sacred duty to not only police the comings and goings in our own swamp of despair, but to observe the faults of others.

In life, I suppose I should make at least a summary appearance at having become well-informed for yet another tedious job interview, for a tedious in-house "employment opportunity."

Every second I spend working logistics and doing management sh** is a second less I spend keeping current at relevant skills. 

At least I can somewhat be able to play the keyboards.

[Bob]

The teleportation problem of whether you're actually killing off the original person if you destroy the original.  But I'm wondering, what happens if you just create that second copy and leave the original?  I would think if they ever actually were able to teleport, if you did that experiment, it's not hurting anything, except that the copy would probably want the same as the original for everything.  If there's anything undetected, like a soul, I wonder what the original would experience.  I could see nothing, that it's just a copy.  Or maybe some kind of split entity or other problem going on.

[Bob]

Time is going faster....

And the "phased" push.  Instead of just a push for one day, it's over a few days.

[visitor]

Yes Outin is right. It is just cute!  But maybe it's just because I have to deal with my psycho neighbours every day and all the aliens, ghosts, monsters... seem pretty friendly and calming compared to them.   

been a few since little tune posted , hope she's happy and well

[Bob]

Abs muscles.  Breathing.  Physical space. 

[Bob]

Bill Gates is looking pretty smart in 2015 now.

[Bob]

[Bob]

Interesting youtube channel, but....

https://www.youtube.com/user/pegzch/videos
Rick Beato


Looks a bit pop music oriented.  Not a believer that perfect pitch is attainable by adults.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

People in Chicago are Wild right know lmao

People are like blowing up police cars and stealing horses and sh*t out here

[Bob]

I'm wondering July is going to have.

[Bob]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hasf7n/if_you_could_show_mozart_a_modern_song_to_blow/

[chopins_piano]

I NEED a Bosendorfer and a trip to Vienna

[Bob]

Yeah.  I'll take a standard issue Steinway then if he's getting a Bosendorfer.  I can suffer along with one like that.  In place of the trip, I'll take a recital hall with paid climate for the next 50 years.  *Bob does some mental math....*   Yeah, how about 80 years into the future, but 50 is probably plenty....  Darnit.   *Bob consider moving into this recital hall....*

[Bob]

https://twitter.com/stephanPhD/status/1278460053830266880

[Bob]

I hope this food that expired in Feb 2020 is still good.  *Burp.*  It's not that long ago.  2020 is still new.  Plus, it's before the virus.





*Bob hopes.*

[Bob]

Concerned.  I think I've lost some rhythm or coordination.  I noticed it in scales when playing them slower.  I've been playing faster and trying to push speed, so ability to play slower seems like it dropped out a bit.  And then I'm wondering if my body is really feeling the beat precisely.

[Bob]

Fixing things at higher levels.

[Bob]

The Ur post... Is this the first post on here.

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=1.msg51#msg51

Days after 9/11?   9/19/2001 for that post.

[j_tour]

I'm really trying to do a smooth "moonwalk" dance step wearing steel-toed shoes with heavy vibram treads on the soles.

For a musician, I guess I can pretend to "dance" OK, was compelled to do ballroom dancing as a young teenager with a bunch of bluebloods, sort of a rite of passage.

The moonwalk is eluding me, but I'll get it. 

[Bob]

[Bob]

Something about having a stable base built, to return to, and to use to push off from to capture progress.

The beat
Strength of the beat felt in the body as a whole.
Amount of force on the arm, hands, fingers for the beat (vs. not on the beat)
in terms of drilling things in, and creating that base to work off of.

[Bob]

https://nypost.com/2020/10/11/trump-mulled-superman-shirt-after-walter-reed-release-report/

"President Trump considered ripping off his dress shirt to reveal a Superman T-shirt when he was released from the hospital after being treated for the coronavirus, according to a report."

 

[Bob]

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/13/923236139/new-york-philharmonic-cancels-its-entire-2020-21-season-due-to-coronavirus

[Bob]

Wondering about TED talks now.

And stagnation in practicing.  If there's no progress, then there's no progress....

[Bob]

[Bob]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/world/neanderthal-human-hands-thumb-grip-scn/index.html


So what would that impact for a Neanderthal playing the piano?

[Bob]

At a higher level...
Once "a" workflow is known...
Is that the best workflow?
And how to speed that whole process up?  If that's possible, how it's possible, as much as possible....?

[Bob]

&feature=youtu.be

[Bob]

I should check on my neopet sometime....

[Bob]

Breaking a mental block, even if it's an extremely small step.   The mental block side of it is interesting. 

Although there's the rest of the whole project that's still there.  And that's the type of thinking that doesn't get anything done.

[j_tour]

My Bing-fu is not working so good.  I must have a copy somewhere around of one of the Dauphin editions of Vergil's Aeneid, but I don't find any easily anymore online.  They're out there on the web, though.  You stop reading classical Latin for a few years and it's a PITA to get back into it easily.  The Oxford Classsical Texts of Vergil is, to be sure, a very nice text, but of no help.  And I'll be damned if I'm using Clyde Pharr again:  not very convenient to carry around.

[neap tide]

I need to write/find an ending for my book.

Now, I must convince an infallible algorithm I'm not a robot. Should this ever post, kindly read: Qualityland, by Marc Owe-Kling. A satiric and brutally honest, funny novel.

[j_tour]

I think I've broken my knee, while self-administering one of my regular CV-19 tests under supervision of a nurse via video and audio link.  Yes, I tried to do the classic posture where one pretends one is sitting in a chair, but isn't.  I was trying to align myself with the camera for the nurse.  It's fine for a bit, but holding that posture for about twenty minutes is apparently not very good.  Not for me, anyway.  I think holding that posture is what re-activated the inflammmation in the knee.  It was stupid, but I think I was probably trying to prove how manly awesome I was to the gals in line behind me.  No, I'm not much of an athlete, despite my feats of strength and endurance, so I should stop attempting to show off at work aka the "day job."

It is still xmas season, though, so, I suppose excesses are allowed.

On the good note, I'm enjoying a beverage called Slane triple casked Irish whiskey,  I wasn't expecting much, and it doesn't have much of a bite on the way in, but I have no complaints.  It's a bit light, but there is a peppery, sharp note in the afterburn.  A new mark for me, but I'd buy it again over Tullamore or Jameson, I suppose

[Bob]

[j_tour]

Yet again.  Every single time driving westbound on Hwy 26. 

Unbelievable. 

(i) don't pass on the right

(ii) signal your lane changes.  Yes, numbnuts, that means you:  get a map and learn to read it or pull over if you're lost.  Every.  Single.  Time.  You.  Change.  Directions.  Signal.  In.  Advance.  *** morons.

(iii) don't ever tailgate.

When in doubt, see rule (iii).  There's not any possible reason to tailgate.  The only reason I can see is to temporarily allow a merging lane to merge, but that traffic should self-equilibrate. 

Putains. 

[vogel54]

I am very frustrated with the Brahms Intermezzo 118 no. 2 and wondering if I will ever get to play it well enough to perform. Any practice tips would be appreciated... 

[ivorycherry]

Bored. Guiltily exploring forbidden music like jazz and sorajbi.

[Bob]

[flanker27]

What are the acoustics through these?

[j_tour]

Hmmm...the woman in the cage playing the alto sax reminds me of...

Car repair.

Dammit, I should finally get around to replacing the driver's side side view mirror....except I have to take off the entire interior door panel to replace it and hook up the electronics.

Maybe I should just leave it duck-taped on and buy a second ultra-loud horn:  I'm sure I can do that in a few minutes.

Yes, that is super illegal to have a 150 dB truck horn installed in your car, but with any luck, I won't have to use it.

No, I'm not going to use a novelty horn playing like "Dixie" or "La Cucaracha," just a very loud compressed air horn.

I am very frustrated with the Brahms Intermezzo 118 no. 2 and wondering if I will ever get to play it well enough to perform. Any practice tips would be appreciated... 

The A major with the F#m section?  Yeah, I learned it in high school as a little present for my girlfriend at the time who was on vacation somewhere with her family for a week or two..  I don't think I ever brought it in to my teacher, just did it for fun on my own.  In fact, I had to double-check the score to make sure of which piece.  Yeah, I remember that tune.

What's exactly the difficulty you're having?  I'm not sure I can help you, but I found the piece fairly straightforward, although I don't regularly read through it much these days.  I'm sure I could fake my way through it many years later, though, reading off the page.

You absolutely need the 2:3, of course, but I don't know what else you might need.  Biggish hands are nice for this one and comfortable with arpeggios, as well as major thirds with appropriate voicing, and judicious use of the sustain pedal, I guess about covers it.

[Bob]

[Bob]

Looking for luck from Piano Street.... 

[Bob]

[j_tour]

I was reading the Scarlatti K. 517, which I'd never heard before, nor even seen.  Walked the twenty feet to the keyboard and everything.

Mighty peculiar how similar the little scalar passage is to Contrapunctus 9 from Ars fuga.

It's a coïncidence, I'm sure, but it's very odd.

I now think Bach was poisoned by an unknown Italian relation of Catherine de Médicis, in an attempt to revive a thirst for the glory days of St. Bartholomew's Day among partisans of the Germanic tribes.

[Bob]

Soon....

[Bob]

Still soon....  But sooner than the last soon....

[Bob]

Wow.  I typed in pianoforum.net to get here....


Soon... is now.   

And now also means more work and my usual schedule disruption...