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I just downloaded sheet music for a Fats Waller transcription (I hoped) of "Ain't Misbehavin'". The first page (which is all you see before you buy) looked promising to be a note-for-note transcription of what he plays, but it was not. Of course, they all say Fats Waller, because he wrote the song. I guess that's what I get for being lazy and not learning it by ear. I can do it that way, or I can buy the book of his solo transcriptions. I'll probably do both - buy the book but learn some parts by ear anyway. Eeeeee!!!
"Eeeeeee" is for excitement - I love, that is luurrrrrrve Fats Waller. His playing is full of both muscle and humor. He's the kind of guy who'd write a song called "Your Feet's Too Big." "Your pedal extremities really are obnoxious", he says at the end of the song. I mean, I ask you. I wish I could get inside this guy's head a little bit.
"Your pedal extremities really are obnoxious - one never knows, do one..."
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ReplyDelete[edit] Goshdarnit. Don'tcha just HATE finding mistakes after you've posted and the Editing Fairy has left the building? This scorched earth policy for comment corrections is not a good look for me... [/edit]
ReplyDeleteFive bucks lost on a dodgy transcription you could only see the first page? I hear dat. Yo. Fo shizzle. Err...
I once tried to find a decent MIDI file for "Heaven On Their Minds" for a singing lesson, and I couldn't find a free one and didn't fancy recording one myself, so I found an Actual Pay For One that - the first 30 seconds of which - sounded quite good. Sadly, it turned out to be... poor. Passable, but poor. I was most disturbed that my favourite bit (the F-A-A7 progression at the end of lines like "I've been your right hand man all along") had been butchered disappointingly. To this day (it's been more than a year now) it sticks in my craw like a stone in my mixed-metaphor shoe. I should really just pop in and fix it... or I could spend that time on something more worthwhile. Like sitting in the corner with a pencil in my eye.
I can't sleep and watching someone with so many check marks in the right boxes squirm and wrestle with their demons publicly is somehow cathartic. But I digress.
I once won a trivia competition because I could correctly name a popular song that had the word 'moot' in its lyrics (bonus internetz points if you get it), but I wouldn't have guessed the line "Your pedal extremities really are obnoxious" would be in a song, even one from 1935. I had to check to see it for myself. Amazingness.
And who - amongst those who discuss this blog recreationally amongst themselves - ever said this wasn't edumacational?
To conclude, a randomly-found joke off the interwebs (the piano ones weren't even delusionally funny):
Q: What do you get when you cross a French Horn player and a goalpost?
A: A goalpost that can't march.
I'll get my coat...
[edit] See, now I have to repost my stupid second comment to explain away why there are two deleted ones before my first one. I tells ya, living in the First World can be rough... [/edit]
ReplyDeleteHoly moly: it gets quite long when it's all squished in to a column like that.
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That's what SHE said.
All of this makes my day. I mean, not the frustration you have felt at wasting money on subpar products, and sitting with a pencil in your eye etc., but the comment in general. I particularly want to hear you say "fo shizzle" with an Aussie accent.
ReplyDeleteThank you for inspiring tonight's pop quiz. :)
Aww shucks. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWe'll call it even.