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12 hours ago, Geoff Grace said:
I can't believe that Trevor Lawrence is now tied with Joe Burrow for highest paid quarterback. Lawrence doesn't even have any playoff wins!
There, how did I do?
Best,
Geoff
Trevor Lawrence does have a playoff win. This was the game in which his team was down 27-0, then he mounted a comeback for the win. 😎
This win started talk of firing the head coach on the losing side - one Brandon Staley.
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Trevor Lawrence is now tied with Joe Burrow for highest paid QB
I got put on the spot forJustin Herbert being the highest paid QB despite zero playoff wins. It's the kind of ribbing that comes with being only Charger fan here, heh. Geoff as I recall was the first to call attention to Herbert's new contract at that time and get the ribbing started. That said, I don't mind at all that he's now got several QBs earning more now, with more playoff wins. 😎
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14 hours ago, CrossRhodes said:
Another gem from the Tiny Desk crew. Man, I’d love to work these shoots. Talk about a sweet day gig!
They used to have interns manning the cameras, with a seasoned pro supervising the interns, and another seasoned pro handling the audio engineering duties. The interns were usually photojournalism or videography type majors fresh out of college or still in college. Not sure how NPR does it these days.
Working at NPR in general was pretty sweet.
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I simply posted the original recording of The Windup as reference, and to provide context for Pat Metheny Group's performance.
My intention was not to invite comparison between Lyle and Keith as improvising pianists.
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Love Lyle's playing in every context that I've heard him play.
However, that was apparently a cover of Keith Jarrett's The Windup and whoever made that video took only Lyle's solo rather than Pat Metheny Group's complete performance of the tune.
https://www.patmetheny.com/qa/questionView.cfm?queID=3969
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20 hours ago, El Lobo said:
Consider that playing the guitar can actually transfer to improvement in your keyboard playing. I have double GAS too. I have many keyboards and many saxophones. (I only own a couple of guitars now, but I used to have more.) I played rhythm guitar as a young rock 'n' roller, but no longer. I've played sax in bands for (gulp) 60 years. I started playing keyboard in my main band 20 years ago, in my late 50's. I got better on keys over the years but I'm still a very mediocre keys player. However, the more keys I played, the more developed I got in my sax playing. I moved away from pentatonics or staying in minor blues scales and got more into playing the 2nd and the 6th and chromatic runs, even finding the sharp 1 (b 2) in those 9th chords, etc. I would say that this was a direct result of thinking as a keyboardist about sus and diminished chords and 11ths and 13ths etc. And I could immediately think in chords on the keyboard because I learned to think in chords on the guitar. I can see that the reverse could easily be true -- that your knowledge of the keyboard could transfer something to your understanding of what to play on a guitar or on the way you learn and develop on guitar. I think something that many of us know and understand is that, if you get music and how it works, you can learn other instruments fairly well and fairly easily. This is not always true because you need to develop specific skills to play any instrument well. I can't play brass instruments (valve horns) because to me it's like learning to speak Russian. But the transfer from chording instruments, guitar to keyboard or vice versa, is fairly good and doesn't require an embouchure. I can play all the saxes well but never could get a good embouchure for flute so I don't play that. Just a different point of view about learning to play another instrument later in life ...
I have indeed created some chord progressions on guitar that I later adapted to keyboard. Cycles of 4ths and 5ths are so easy to find on guitar.
I had a piano teacher try to teach me ornamentation, such as grace notes and trills, on the piano, as part of a bigger lesson about how to play blues and jazz melodies. I didn't really get it until I worked on similar ornamentation on the guitar, then brought that to my keyboard playing.
Clifford Brown's solo on Sandu was the first that I tried learning on keys first rather than guitar. I don't know why I didn't think of trying this before. For that starting Bb note, there is only one key on a keyboard to play, whereas on guitar there are multiple frets where that same pitch can be found. Learning solos/melodies on keys first, instead of on guitar first, lets me focus more on the notes and less on the note locations. The downside is I have a harder time playing the melody smoothly on the keys compared to guitar, but I'm fine with that tradeoff. Having a good quality melodica like my Suzuki M-37C increases the fun factor, allowing me to approximate horn dynamics more than just playing a piano, as well as giving me opportunities to stand up and take a break from sitting on the piano stool.
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On 6/1/2024 at 4:55 AM, Jose EB5AGV said:
I have a question for you which this thread has triggered... Do you think playing guitar is detrimental to playing keys in the long run?. Because I am finally getting serious on my attempt to play the guitar and, at 56, I wonder if maybe is the wrong move, as my main instrument is the keyboard 🤔
I too am a victim of double GAS. I own more guitars than I actually need, and same problem with keyboards/synths. 😀
There is no denying that every hour you spend on guitar was an hour you could have spent on the keys. Whether this or not this is truly a detriment to you depends on what you hope to achieve musically, how you wish to express yourself musically in various situations, etc. For example if your main genre is pop music, are you being asked to play keyboard solos like Jesus Molina on every song? Probably not. And it's not like you'll be asked to solo on guitar like Matteo Mancuso or Isaiah Sharkey on every song either.
If you have limited time to devote to guitar playing but want to do it anyway, you could probably get a lot of mileage of focusing on rhythm guitar playing. Rhythm guitar is a desirable skill to have for any band situation.
Egberto Gismonti and Ralph Towner developed skills on both instruments. That said, I notice both musicians stuck to acoustic guitar playing, which simplified their lives as guitarists quite a bit - once you get into electric guitar amplification, effects, etc. those things can be potentially endless distractions, and thus time lost, from actual music making on the guitar.
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Justin Jefferson officially the highest paid non-QB in NFL history
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40268752/sources-justin-jefferson-vikings-agree-4-year-140m-deal
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Transcribe by SeventhString: https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html
I've been learning the electric piano part for "Nothin But a Hearache" by Doobie Brothers. Learning by slowing down Youtube has been ok, but now it's time to enlist the capabilities of Transcribe (EQ, marker placement, etc.). Unfortunately it doesn't work with M4P files out of the box, so I'll try playing the audio out through an audio interface, with a cable connecting an output back to an input, and recording the audio in my DAW to create a file that Transcribe can use.
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Check out murder ballads - Stagger Lee, Knoxville Girl, Cedartown Georgia, etc. All songs in which the singer plots and executes a murder. The music is traditionally country/folk - not rap actually.
Almost forgot about Hey Joe! Registered for copyright by Billy Roberts in 1962, but actual authorship has been contested. Made famous by a certain Army veteran turned rock star (not rapper).
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I rooted against Larry Allen because he played for the Cowpokes but I respected his game and was admittedly jealous that my Chargers never had an OG of his caliber during his peak years
RIP
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There was a time I didn't like any rap music just like the OP.
I also didn't like any country music.
My music world was enriched after I changed my attitudes about those genres over time.
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15 hours ago, GovernorSilver said:
had no idea Michael McDonald toured with Edgar Winter
Here he confirms the names of his support musicians: Edgar Winter (sax, keys), Robben Ford (guitar), Willie Weeks (bass), Brian Mann (keys), George Perilli (drums). Practically an all-star band
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had no idea Michael McDonald toured with Edgar Winter
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A new digital piano looms larger in my near future than a software library, with the Kawai being a top candidate. Because Keyscape plus my beat up Casio still has the not great feeling experience of the beat up Casio keybed.. That said, the playing on these vids are pretty nice.
Checking out Chummy's Kawai review now.
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Youtube recommended this cover of White Sun
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1 hour ago, MrVegas said:
Hey I'm curious about the SX900 vs. the SX600 arranger boards. The 900 is over $2K but the 600's can be found on Ebay for around $600. How do the drum accompaniments compare between these two I wonder?
When I was shopping and deciding on an arranger board to buy, this video was helpful to me.
I did not look into the 900's drum sounds as I was confident the 600's drum sounds would be more than adequate for my needs... and so far I've been satisfied with the 600's drum sounds. That said, once the MIDI data for a song I create on the arranger is imported to the DAW, I feel no obligation to keep the all audio from the arranger. Once it's all inside a DAW, I can go to any MIDI track in the DAW, and replace drum parts, guitar parts, etc. with a sample library, plugin, a live muso playing the part, or whatever else I want.
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Uploaded just yesterday was a Q&A clip focusing on the new book What A Fool Believes authored by McDonald and Paul Reiser.
Among the reveals: McDonald and fellow Doobies have entered the mixing phase of their next album, featuring music written by all four official members (McDonald, Johnston, Simmons, McFee), some tracks featuring McDonald and Johnston singing together, etc.
Toward the end, he says he feels validated for his crappy (in his opinion) synth tones as used on "I Keep Forgetting" and other songs, thanks to those tones being sampled for rap tracks. 😎
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YT recommended this video which I'd never seen before, let alone thought search for on purpose.
Guess who plays the sax solo
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When Night Music was on air I used to set my alarm clock to wake up for every episode. Thank you, David Sanborn for introducing me to so many great musicians and music
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Chargers signed free agent OLB Bud Dupree, adding needed pass rusher depth with one starter (Bosa) being injury prone. Dupree was thought to be leaning towards returning to the Steelers but was apparently sold on triple OLB sets that will be part of the Chargers' new defensive system. I'm sure he was also sold on the opportunity to play for Jim Harbaugh.
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I'm still happy with my Yamaha PSR-SX600 arranger keyboard.
One way I use it is like iReal Pro/Band In A Box. I pick a music style like slow blues, medium swing, etc. then record maybe 4-6 repeats of a chord progression, with a fill to indicate a return to the top of the chord progression. All I have to do is play the chords with my left hand, and the arranger creates the bass line, drum parts, rhythm guitar/piano part, etc. iReal Pro has a faster workflow with 1000s of song charts available for download, but I like practicing switching chord shapes with my hand in real time, as well as putting in the mental work to make sure the song sections are properly structured.
A songwriter like Paich could sketch out a song on an arranger keyboard in minutes. If he wants to change how many measures should be in the verse and/or the chorus, he just makes another recording, and decides on the fly when to change from verse to chorus, chorus to verse, etc. by hitting the appropriate buttons (typically labeled something like "Variation 1", "Variation 2", etc. as well as triggering fills whenever he wants by pressing buttons. This can be a faster workflow than editing notes in your DAW. Once the songwriter is satisfied with the song, MIDI can be exported to a DAW for further work. Some arrangers will let you export both MIDI and audio if you really like the audio too.
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OT - What are you listening to right now?
in The Keyboard Corner
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Lee Sklar introducing then playing (the track, not physically playing) "Dark Side" from Michael McDonald's Wide Open album