Sometimes a good song is better than a case of beer...What are you listening to these days... Im enjoying this one, old but good...
Don't think sorry's easily said Don't try turning tables instead Youv'e taken lots of chances before But I'm not gonna give anymore Don't ask me That's how it goes Cause part of me knows what youre thinkin
Don't say words youre gonna regret Don't let the fire rush to your head Ive heard the accusation before And I ain't gonna take any more Believe me The sun in your eyes Made some of the lies worth believing
Chorus: I am the eye in the sky Looking at you I can read your mind I am the maker of rules Dealing with fools I can cheat you blind And I dont need to see any more To know that I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Dont leave false illusions behind Dont cry cause I aint changing my mind So find another fool like before Cause I aint gonna live anymore believing Some of the lies while all of the signs are deceiving
-- Edited by Closer on Sunday 24th of June 2012 11:40:02 PM
Welcome, strangers, to the show I'm the one who should be lying low Saw the knives out, turned my back Heard the train coming, stayed out on the track In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of a dream I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings I've done all the dumb things Caught the fever, heard the tune Thought I loved her, hung my heart on the moon Started howling, made no sense Thought my friends would rush to my defence In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of a dream I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings I've done all the dumb things And I get all your good advice It doesn't stop me from going through these things twice I see the knives out, I turn my back I hear the train coming, I stay right on that track In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of a dream I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings I've done all the dumb things I melted wax to fix my wings I've done all the dumb things I threw my hat into the ring I've done all the dumb things I thought that I just had to sing I've done all the dumb things
Reminds me of a bloke I used to know. Or maybe be. lol.
I work down at the pizza pit And I drive an old Hyundai I still live with my mom and dad I'm 5'3 and overweight
I'm a Sci-Fi fanatic Mild asthmatic Never been to 2nd base But there's a whole nother me That you need to see Go check out MySpace
'cause online I'm out in Hollywood I'm 6'5 and I look damn good I drive a Maserati I'm a black belt in Karate And I love a good glass of wine
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious I tell 'em I don't want nothing serious 'cause even on a slow day I can have a three way Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online So much cooler online
I get home, I kiss my mom And she fixes me a snack I head down to my basement bedroom And fire up my Mac
In real life the only time I Ever even been to L.A. Was when I got the chance with the marching band To play tuba in the Rose Parade.
Online I live in Malibu I posed for Calvin Kline, I've been in GQ I'm single and I'm rich And I got a set of six pack abs that'll blow your mind
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious I tell 'em I don't want nothing serious 'cause even on a slow day I can have a three way Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online Yeah I'm cooler online
When you got my kinda stats, it's hard to get a date Let alone a real girlfriend But I grow another foot And I lose a bunch of weight everytime I log in
Online I'm out in Hollywood I'm 6'5 and I look damn good Even on a slow day, I can have a three way Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online Yeah I'm cooler online I'm so much cooler online Yeah I'm cooler online
Sometimes a good song is better than a case of beer...What are you listening to these days... Im enjoying this one, old but good...
Don't think sorry's easily said Don't try turning tables instead Youv'e taken lots of chances before But I'm not gonna give anymore Don't ask me That's how it goes Cause part of me knows what youre thinkin
Don't say words youre gonna regret Don't let the fire rush to your head Ive heard the accusation before And I ain't gonna take any more Believe me The sun in your eyes Made some of the lies worth believing
Chorus: I am the eye in the sky Looking at you I can read your mind I am the maker of rules Dealing with fools I can cheat you blind And I dont need to see any more To know that I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Dont leave false illusions behind Dont cry cause I aint changing my mind So find another fool like before Cause I aint gonna live anymore believing Some of the lies while all of the signs are deceiving
-- Edited by Closer on Sunday 24th of June 2012 11:40:02 PM
Great selection Closer. I kind of like this song too. I more of a classical music buff myself more than anything else, but music does sound better today now that I'm sober. That's something we can agree on. Thanks again.
Oddly enough... I've been obsessed lately with a song from my early drinking days. Boston's Foreplay/Long Time. Of course I've been listening to it so I can learn to play it, which is a whole different experience I've found with a lot of music. Music that sounds complex is often very simple. Music that seems simple ends up being very complex. But what I'm learning about music is that it's all made up of the same stuff. Complex things are nothing but a whole bunch of simple things arranged one on top of the other. I've been playing bari sax for a while now, but you only play one note at a time on a saxophone (unless you have an extra mouth, which I've been accused of having....). On a keyboard you can play as many notes as you have fingers. I have all 10, but my technique is about equivalent to a second grader and I can't usually coordinate more than one hand at a time.
When I first heard "Long Time", it really hadn't been. Now it has been. It was 35 years ago I saw that band on their first big tour, in a huge venue full of pot smoke and the smell of overpriced crappy pizza and stale beer, surrounded by people mostly my own age in some form of altered brain chemistry. I don't remember if I drank any of the beer... probably not, I couldn't afford arena prices and I wasn't old enough to buy it anyway. I probably did my drinking afterward. Many times on a Friday or Saturday night, in my first post-college apartment, with the same friends, getting drunk and stoned (I really just wanted to get drunk) and listening to Boston (among other things). It's interesting to try and actually play a bit of that music... sober, and it has been such a Long Time.
BTW, main chords are: C-F-A (F major), Eb-G-C (C minor), Eb-F-Bb (Bb+4), and D-F-Bb (Bb Major). That's for the Long Time part. The Foreplay intro is quite a bit more difficult, runs 3 minutes of very fast triplets in the key of Db - five flats... not too bad on a keyboard, you can at least see them... and Db uses all five black keys, easy to remember.
On a keyboard you can play as many notes as you have fingers.
The Foreplay intro is quite a bit more difficult, runs 3 minutes of very fast triplets in the key of Db - five flats... not too bad on a keyboard, you can at least see them... and Db uses all five black keys, easy to remember.
Barisax on the Keyboard
Barisax - You have just given me a challenge for today. I can not imagine how it would be possible to play all ten fingers at once and make it sound like anything other than music for the movie Jaws when it attacks... but I'm going to see : ) Never tried it in 25 yrs of playing!
The "very fast triplets" you're referring to are probably called syncopated triplets.
I googled it and found this example: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/straight_vs_syncopated_collaboration_solo_/
There is a difference between just going very fast and this, and if you do have syncopated rythm... you are enjoying music at a wonderful level : )
Anyway.... as for me, I've really been into rag time music lately.
Thanks for the post Closer!
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Oddly enough... I've been obsessed lately with a song from my early drinking days. Boston's Foreplay/Long Time. Of course I've been listening to it so I can learn to play it, which is a whole different experience I've found with a lot of music. Music that sounds complex is often very simple. Music that seems simple ends up being very complex. But what I'm learning about music is that it's all made up of the same stuff. Complex things are nothing but a whole bunch of simple things arranged one on top of the other. I've been playing bari sax for a while now, but you only play one note at a time on a saxophone (unless you have an extra mouth, which I've been accused of having....). On a keyboard you can play as many notes as you have fingers. I have all 10, but my technique is about equivalent to a second grader and I can't usually coordinate more than one hand at a time.
When I first heard "Long Time", it really hadn't been. Now it has been. It was 35 years ago I saw that band on their first big tour, in a huge venue full of pot smoke and the smell of overpriced crappy pizza and stale beer, surrounded by people mostly my own age in some form of altered brain chemistry. I don't remember if I drank any of the beer... probably not, I couldn't afford arena prices and I wasn't old enough to buy it anyway. I probably did my drinking afterward. Many times on a Friday or Saturday night, in my first post-college apartment, with the same friends, getting drunk and stoned (I really just wanted to get drunk) and listening to Boston (among other things). It's interesting to try and actually play a bit of that music... sober, and it has been such a Long Time.
BTW, main chords are: C-F-A (F major), Eb-G-C (C minor), Eb-F-Bb (Bb+4), and D-F-Bb (Bb Major). That's for the Long Time part. The Foreplay intro is quite a bit more difficult, runs 3 minutes of very fast triplets in the key of Db - five flats... not too bad on a keyboard, you can at least see them... and Db uses all five black keys, easy to remember.
I got a ragtime dog and a ragtime cat, ractime piano in my ragtime flat, wear ragtime clothes from hat to shoes, I read a paper called the ragtime news, Got ragtime habits and I talk that way Rag all nightime and I rag all day getting ragtime problems from my ragtime wife oh i'm living a ragtime life
and
Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire, If you refuse me Honey, you'll lose me, then you'll all alone So telephone and tell me I'm your own Hello, Hello, Hellooooo (repeat until you vomit)
I heard thses Once, at a live gig at uni, 35 years ago. They came barreling back into my mind about two hours ago.
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justadrunk wrote:The "very fast triplets" you're referring to are probably called syncopated triplets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTFD5DZwK7g
The emphasis is on the first note of each triplet but it's going so fast that it's very hard to tell. I really had no idea what the notes were until I picked up the sheet music. It's accurate at least for the organ portion. The organ is drowned out by the guitar in many spots but it's always going. The right hand is continuously playing triplets throughout the intro except when it goes into the progression, then it repeats back into the triplets, and then the final progression where it changes from Bb major to F major for the song Long Time.
I can play the lead triplet riff at about 2/3 speed, but the rest of it is much more difficult as it goes up and down the octave in an almost random pattern. I just hack through that. I've been playing it through once each night left hand, right hand, both hands. In about 6 months of that I might be able to play it through at about half speed.
I just have to bump up this old thread because it has now been *four months* since I started trying to teach my self the Boston Foreplay/Long Time intro in my keyboard. I played it for my brother a couple weeks ago and his reaction was "Damn!" I didn't think it was THAT good, but I guess a whole lot better than the first time I ran it by him. I was wondering when it was I had started on it, and my post is from late June which means I started on it in early June.
Not long after I made those posts, I memorized the entire intro - like I said 3 minutes worth but very fast so it's actually 5 pages of sheet music with a repeat back. Memorizing it allowed me to concentrate on my technique instead of my reading, which is still poor for chorded and 2-hand music. I guess I've gotten pretty decent but not for performance. I still have to stop and correct myself, or slow down for certain parts, and the descending riff that ends the first go-round before the repeat has been the most challenging because the left hand walks a bass line while the right hand rips down descending triplets that never repeat themselves.
Anyway I think the first time I timed myself, it took me 12 minutes to get through it, and I was shocked to play it back and find the original is only like 2 minutes 45 seconds. I think I can play it through now in under 6 minutes, allowing for corrections etc. I've taken an interesting approach... rather than beating it to death, I play it through once or twice a day, and that's it. I will backtrack, correct, or work one lick or two, but I don't have to play it 10 times a day. Having two keyboards is interesting too... one is an oldie in the basement and if I've been doing home improvement stuff in the basement - as I have a lot lately - when I'm finished I'll power up the fuzzy old Hammond and play it through. Then later I'll power up my big, loud Hammond upstairs and play it again. I've actually managed to amaze myself getting through some of these things and the main riff I'm playing almost fast enough that it sounds like what it's supposed to sound like and not just a finger exercise.
I said it would take 6 months... well it has been four, and three since I said it... so I'll check back again in early December....
