blues n.d.

no duplicates. remove every chord repetition from a 12 bar blues.
starting from ::

  C F C C F F C C G F C C

reducing to ::

  C F C F C G F

try some 7/4 against it or play in 7/4 ::

  4+3/4 C | F C | F C | G F

get rid of repetion of ``C F `` :

  C F C G F

add a bridge in Ab halfdim.

tititi ta ta ta tititi

this is something that did not turn out so well on the last session.

as usual there were three bass players and only one guitar player.
when the opening quartet left stage, no one took over the void and my fellow lowdowners did not really dig into the idea of a  bass solo till the end :

i would volunteer to go first, take a bass solo, not too long, then leave the stage, another bass player lays his lines, leaves, the next one , and so on and so forth, till ...

but there were glasses of beer to be emptied, another void to be created, mirroring the one on the stage.

so i grabbed the young drummer, told him "this is an emergency" this means SOS or in morse "tititita ta ta tititi", and we did it, but as people told me afterwards, they do not know morse alphabet. education surely is down the gutters.

played something like:


   12/8 fffc.eb.gb.fff

till some other time some other place ...

was du willst - what you want -- Vijay Iyer

Die Musik die ich machen will, erfordert ein bestimmtes Level von Vertrauen und Empathie.

Dieser Moment, wo du verletzlich wirst und die Musik sich anfühlt, als könnte sie in jedem Moment explodieren. Du könntest natürlich scheitern, aber wenn man sich erst einmal an das Scheitern gewöhnt hat, ist es gar nicht mehr so schlimm. Dann ist dieser Moment genau das, was du willst.

 eine analyse, was iyer will:

den moment, da die musik exlodieren kann, kurz vor dem scheitern, denn scheitern muss es, wie soll man sich sonst ans scheitern gewöhnen.
das vertrauen ist in den langjährigen projekten vorhanden ...

in english (please nag me on errors):

The music I want to make, requires a certain level of trust (or confidence) and empathy.

This moment, when you are vulnerable and the music feels like exploding any time. Obviously one could fail, but once you got accustomed to failure, it no longer is so bad. This moment then is the one you want (desire).

an analysis, what  Iyer wants:

the moment, the music could explode any time, right before failure. because it must fail, to get used to failure.
is it trust in the others or confidence in oneself ?

:-)

rework - the book

Jason fried & heinemeier hansson - 37signals

In page 14:

The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.

art, when ?

when is something art ?

1. artists do not care about this.

so should anybody else ?

2. no, surely not.

an artist is similar to an athlete, by practicing one gets more routine/repertoire on how and where to start and end and how to avoid pitfalls and how to handle the ones one got into nevertheless.

both professions have the need to stay inside safe limits to not hurt the outcome and to push these very limits to make it special.

but artists have two advantages over an athlete

1. that going beyond more likely does not hurt anybody physically
2. art is a quality not a quantity, not only champions can produce but everyone.

doing your best is it, renown artists have a different best, but it is theirs not yours. Trying to outdo anyone but yourself is only limitting.

let-downer (as usual)

years, actually decades ago, i ordered a gigbag for my bassguitar. at that time i was in munich once a week in the MunichBassInstitute, everyone had a gig bag. most of the bags were black, some dark brown, the leather bag of peter was beige. this is a clear sign of male dominated area, the same as entering a clothing store for man. the gods showed mercy with me i got a pink one, without ordering it, i am not sure if i would have dared to.

to countermove the really annoying architecture/designer-black-turtleneck-syndrom in creative surroundings i proposed to freitag.ch that i would love to have a freitag-gigbag. being professionals they declined, there is an addition to a normal bag, gigbags need protective cushioning, maybe this is a reason, but there might also be the small market that is there for non-black in music business.

this leaves me with the one choice, a fender tweed gigbag.

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.