blue shield for people

This is one of the protective signs, probably the triplicated one is required in some areas.

The backside should have the text in the most appropriate language:

Protected by the Convention of The Hague, date 14 May1954, for the protection of cultural property in the event of an armed conflict.

After years of procrastination i managed to convince the talents from dieselch to do the gritty details for me, many thanks.

civilization - to go

next time you visit a public toilet, in a trainstation or a rest stop, remeber civilization is still a long way to go.

and then think about pollution rights, air, sea and earth ...

a long long way, let's hope "The journey is the reward" applies a little.

pilot talk

condensed language to enable on stage communication while playing.

  in / out
  low / high
  go / stop
  more / less
  yes / no / now
  up / down

shout if need

pictures and videos

big issues this days

• german t-mobile advertises picture storage in the cloud
• flamewars as instagram is no more iphone only
• facebook buys the company for big money

ten years ago uncle X slide show of last and preceeding holidays pictures was the perfection of boredom. sometimes second to sock drawer reorganization.

these days, the 21st century (?see), things changed as it looks to me.
uncle X is the party king showing his pictures on an ipad, downloading them from some cloud.

card steps

the first time i could make use of the cards in a live session, the sax only wanted one card.

lately a piano player took a full pick five cards.

  G mi  -  Eb mi  -  F# mi

  C mi  -  A mi 

all minor, sorry for the boy, but we did it. the B-part (Cmi Ami) was played al fine only.

notes how to go around the A-part.

• g a bb c# d eb f# is an interesting scale
• g eb f# is nearly giant steps changes, taking f# as dominant to b we are there.
  but in minor:  Gmi aeol - Ebmi aeol - F#mi dor

practice - Üben

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQI0GFHDO5A

not only for bass players to practice walking bass.

• take the sheet and follow the chords
• tap off-beats
• play along: roots, thirds, chords

have fun 

http://darefoot.blogspot.com/2011/04/playing-standards.html

walk around, talk around

a little structure into your session fun:

having four players on stage, drums plus three, pull three session cards.
every non drummer get's one, lay them open.

get the last digit from the birthdate of every player, this is the number of beats in two bars.
tell/show them everyone.

start playing
first let the chords/tones ring

enter some rhythm

...
everyone is allowed to take up every part.
...

end somewhere




notes:

be aware of tonal preferences: after a longer conversation with a trumpet player my session cards mostly do b-flat things. this fits to a former experience, when pulling things with guitar players, one gets a lot of sharps.

usage of two bar structures is recommended for rhythms (clave style), four bar for harmonic rhythms.