CountFosco

Reframing the move on Bottas, which resulted in contact and a puncture, as brilliant is an interesting evaluation. You forgot to add that he hit Magnussen when trying to overtake him too, also brilliant? Making contact with three cars in one race is good going even for Verstappen.

Thanks for this Tim. That vocal at 1:54 is insane. (I was going to write voc(oder?)al at 1:54, but I think it's legit)

Exactly! (I think we made the same point. Ferrari=Leclerc)

Another race ruined by VSC. Not just at the front, all the way down the grid. But Ferrari made a big mistake pitting Leclerc a second time. Really smacked of them treating Bottas, the 2nd driver in the championship, with no respect. They thought Leclerc driving right by him would be a formality.

Glad to hear it, cos that's what it was!

Could this be just about the most aussie post ever? (Also not meaning to inflame, but as an ex-pat, this is the sh!t that makes me miss home)

Also not being that and just trying to do that. Too also means excessively (as in "Too pedantic, CountFosco").

Yes, it's right there on page 28. I had the answer to my original question sitting in my "to read" list. Thanks Darren.

That's gorgeous. Great recording too, evident even through my laptop speakers. Going to give that a proper listen later.

This site mentions "extended blues scale" and describes it as "The extended blues scale is the major and minor blues scale combined. The extended blues scale gives you some interesting shapes to play that produce both a funky and gospel infused sound." https://www.pianogroove.com/blues-piano-lessons/blues-scale-improvisation-tutorial/ Perfect, thanks Toano.

It wasn't really the flat 3 / nat 3 thing that caught my attention in the original video. The major blues scale already has that, and #9 extensions are a ubiquitous requirement in funk covers. What intrigued me was the number of notes Rai had available to create his licks and trying to work out how to make them available to me. I like the name "Greater Blues Scale", I'm going to use that. And googling that in quotes returns zero results, very cool dazzjazz.

What the good doctor said works for me.

Yeah that sounds like a reasonable way to look at it. For the most part, any lick uses only one of the flat or nat 3.

Thanks Math, I'm going to work on incorporating this more into my playing. Regarding the mega-scale over all three chords thing, I still hear Rai switch up scales (somehow) for each chord. He makes a particular point of highlighting this when he moves from G to C - I guess the Eb and F# come into play, and he gets a bit more mileage out of the Enat. I think the scale change itself is also part of what makes this jam sound next level.

I watched this vid a few times last night, to try to decipher the scales Rai uses. The piece is a major 12 bar blues in G. To my ear, he's using a scale which combines all notes of major and minor blues scales for each chord. And he's not jumping in and out of the major or minor mode, he uses it as a scale in its own right. For eg on the G he's using all of: G Bb C Db D F + G A Bb B D E = G A Bb B C Db D E F which is essentially all notes of a G chromatic apart from Ab, Eb and F#. (b2, #5, #7) Is this a thing? Does this scale have a name?

I made the mistake of giving my Whatsapp details to some clients when I was doing a job in India, now I'm basically on call all the effin time. Even after leaving the company. In one band we use a single Whatsapp group, a Dropbox, and emails where necessary. In another we use Whatsapp and a german language online app called Teamplanbuch. It's a team project tracking tool, there's a row for each band member, then columns for each important upcoming date - practices, gigs, etc, screenshot attached. Everyone goes through and populates it in advance, inserting holidays, days when unavailable, you can add comments to each entry. BL decides whether or not to cancel or shift practices based on the inputs, and the app sends email reminders to everyone. It's Swiss level band organisation, and it works pretty well. Not suggesting this app, as I think it's only available in German, but I'm sure there are other programs offering that type of thing.

and writer of the song, Rob Hyman. I always thought you could tell he wrote the song just by the way he owned those backing vocals.

Say Something by A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera has a chorus which will get their lighters out.

How about some Simon and Garfunkel? Songs like Sounds of Silence, Troubled Water, Scarborough Fair could work as M/F duets.

Not sure how important the vocoder capability of the Kronos is in this setup, but you could also consider something like the Electro Harmonix V256. Run your single mic through that, it has a bypass, and it can take a midi in from a controller. I use this setup to do what you're describing.

I always liked that 6 bar turnaround in the chorus of Roxanne, always stuck out as something novel. And the on-beat guitar part in the verse is kinda reggae but not.

+ about a million on what Strays Dave said (glad I didn't have to make the Journey comment), and plus a cuppla hundred thousand on Analogika's point 2 (because I understand what he meant, unlike the others who agreed with him because they didn't).

Well done Leclerc. Holding out both Mercs for those last 15 laps or so was a great effort. And a nice uneventful 4th for Danny. The virtual safety car experiment is not working. Some drivers do the 40% thing, others just take the p!ss. (How does a driver work out what 60% of his normal speed around turn 9 is?) Relative gaps before and after a VSC sometimes change by more than 10 seconds, which is the length of an ice age in F1 time.

Nice review. Big fan of Ben Folds (except my son has taken to bashing out Brick on the piano downstairs on a nightly basis. He does a nice version, in his fffashion, but I could probably go a couple of happy years without hearing it again). You've whet my appetite, looking forward to reading it.

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