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Dave Horne

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  1. While looking up information regarding Bob Hope I came across the following which I thought funny and classic ...

     

    From Wiki ....

     

    On July 27, 2003, Bob Hope died at his home in Toluca Lake at 9:28 p.m. According to one of Hope's daughters, when asked on his deathbed where he wanted to be buried, he told his wife, "Surprise me."

  2. Dave Ferris, for the longest time I had problems with YouTube; I'd almost always receive the 'video does not exist' message. I researched the problem and went through the same thing as you with installing Java Script/Adobe Flash 9 (or whatever it was) and I still had a problem. I had that problem for months.

     

    All at once, the problem went away and I attribute that to a Windows Update though I have no proof of that. Just a thought.

     

     

  3. Yea, I'm I'm with Linwood - a very brave first post and done well!

     

    When reharmonizing a song, are there certain guidelines that you follow?

     

    There are simple little tricks that I use.

     

    I'll take a look at where I want a certain note in the melody to end harmonically on. Let's say I want the fifth note of the melody to have some kind of 'C' chord. I'll work backwards from there. The fourth note of the melody will have some kind of 'G' chord, the third note of the melody will have some kind of 'D' chord ... and so on. Sometimes you can force things through, sometimes not.

     

     

    ... or I'll approach the 'fifth' note of the melody (in this example) using chromatically ascending or descending chords. If I wanted a 'C' type chord on the fifth note of the melody, the fourth note will 'see' some kind of 'Db' chord ... and so on ..... or I'll approach it from a 1/2 step below.

     

    ... or I'll use the same exact voicing using parallel (block) chords. Each melody note will be, for example, the +11 of a chord and I'll use the same exact voicing for every melody note. (You can't do this for too long, say, four of five melody notes.)

     

    Anytime I see a dominant 7th chord I break it up into a ii7 - V7. That alone doubles your chords and helps to move things along.

    If I see a minor iv chord, I'll think a bVII chord ... and so on.

     

    Before I reharmonize anything I simply play just the melody and listen.

     

    These 'tricks' can be worked on systematically.

  4. SK, I spent a lot of time trying to solve this problem and had no success. I have this problem on two different computers. I jumped through all the hoops given to me by YouTube and still can not view all videos.

     

    I would be interested in knowing more about BIAB and what modules I should consider purchasing. Is it out of place to ask this here?

  5. I took three weeks off from the piano (wife's vacation) and am back to practicing. This is my third day back and I'm not too far from where I was before the vacation.

     

    I hope to add something within a week or so - I'm Old Fashioned perhaps - nothing too creative, just a play through.

  6. I just got back from vacation and saw that this thread was placed somewhere in Utah ... so to speak.

     

    I was away for three weeks and it will take at least a week to be back in shape but I hope to add more to this most important thread.

     

    I will admit the Keytar thread is tempting though.

     

    So, where the f*** is everyone?

  7. The F#, an octave and a tritone from the top C, as well as the G and G# - one sample, are out of tune when the sustain pedal is depressed.

     

    Regarding your tuner, a friend of mine who lives in Bonita (outside of San Diego, I believe) pays $ 95 per tuning and I thought that was a lot. He has a seven foot Steinway.

  8. Dave F, I particularly liked that sequence for a few measures before the last bar.

     

    Since you and I have the same sample set, do you hear three or six (one or two samples) tones that are out of slightly out of tune in the top end of the piano but only when you use the sustain pedal?

  9. Short and sweet, very nice! (And coincidentally, I was almost the 5,000,000,000th visitor to that site. This is my lucky day.)

     

    I think George and his beautiful sister Ira are a tough act to follow .... though the following might give some food for thought.

     

    Well, if I had to do it all over again,

    Babe, I'd do it all over you.

    And if I had to wait for ten thousand years,

    Babe, I'd even do that too.

    Well, a dog's got his bone in the alley,

    A cat, she's got nine lives,

    A millionaire's got a million dollars,

    King Saud's got four hundred wives.

    Well, ev'rybody's got somethin'

    That they're lookin' forward to.

    I'm lookin' forward to when I can do it all again

    And babe, I'll do it all over you. ;)

     

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