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.

GEO kompakt - intelligenz

"GEO kompakt - intelligenz ..." das Editorial :

der Erflog des Menschen beruht maßgeblich auf zwei Eigenchaften, in denen er jedes andere Lebewesen auf dem Planeten bei Weitem übertrifft: seiner Intelligenz und seiner Kreativität.

mankinds success on this planet is based fundamentally on two properties, in which he excells every other lifeform above and beyond: intelligence and creativity

a daring claim, this species hardly recognizes intelligence in it's own diversions and therefore never managed to communicate with beings outside this.
sorry to say, to me this looks like a sure way to nowhere and below, it does not bring one any farther if it is correct and it nails you to the ground if it is not. intelligence and creativity are not uniform but multitude.