ripock
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I still see that the vituperative thread about Terry Carter thrives. I didn't read it after my initial early response because qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent, as they say in Latin. When you sleep with dogs you arise with fleas and when you engage in angry threads, you become angry. And I do not want or need that in my life.
I want centered peace. I'm achieving that in my little corner.
speaking of little corners, I was just looking and musing at my kitchen and noticed a few ukulele-inspired acquisitions I have. on my counter I have a bowl that I keep roots in. It is made of acacia. And I have a flat serving dish for holding my cooking fats. It is made from a bole of a mango tree. I must have selected those items because of their connection to ukulele building. I wonder if I could attain something made of koa to complete the motif.
I have to attend to laundry now but I will update with my musical meanderings when I return
I started with a fairly simple Em, Am and a problematic B7. I always have a problem with the B7 on the 7th fret. My hand does like curling up to get that F#. I am comfortable with a B7#5 except that chord just sounds so final. It is a really great ending: arpeggiated B7#5 and one final Em. That is how things should end. So the ending's set but what about the middle?
I played around with different things off that A on the 9th fret: Am, A13, A+. I also subbed in some F# chords.
That was the basic structure I had to work with and I filled the interstices with C# Aiolian b5/F# Dorian b2 and D# super Lokrian/G Lydian #5.
Since those are all E melodic minor modes, they all wanted to return to an E, so I played around a bit and would return--not to E, but to Em either rooted on the G or A strings.
I have to go to bed. 6 hrs before I have to get up for work. These holiday weekends are always a crap shoot. Either people will be devoted to their holiday and I'll have an uneventful Sunday or people will think everyone else is having a holiday and therefore they will beleaguer me thinking the coast is clear.
I want centered peace. I'm achieving that in my little corner.
speaking of little corners, I was just looking and musing at my kitchen and noticed a few ukulele-inspired acquisitions I have. on my counter I have a bowl that I keep roots in. It is made of acacia. And I have a flat serving dish for holding my cooking fats. It is made from a bole of a mango tree. I must have selected those items because of their connection to ukulele building. I wonder if I could attain something made of koa to complete the motif.
I have to attend to laundry now but I will update with my musical meanderings when I return
I started with a fairly simple Em, Am and a problematic B7. I always have a problem with the B7 on the 7th fret. My hand does like curling up to get that F#. I am comfortable with a B7#5 except that chord just sounds so final. It is a really great ending: arpeggiated B7#5 and one final Em. That is how things should end. So the ending's set but what about the middle?
I played around with different things off that A on the 9th fret: Am, A13, A+. I also subbed in some F# chords.
That was the basic structure I had to work with and I filled the interstices with C# Aiolian b5/F# Dorian b2 and D# super Lokrian/G Lydian #5.
Since those are all E melodic minor modes, they all wanted to return to an E, so I played around a bit and would return--not to E, but to Em either rooted on the G or A strings.
I have to go to bed. 6 hrs before I have to get up for work. These holiday weekends are always a crap shoot. Either people will be devoted to their holiday and I'll have an uneventful Sunday or people will think everyone else is having a holiday and therefore they will beleaguer me thinking the coast is clear.
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