Eccentric Flower talk:201012/Now He Only Eats Guitars

Columbina:

Remember back when I said that sometimes the problem with learning is that you're waiting for someone to hit upon the one exact explanation that makes sense?

This is a good example.

Now, if someone would just write a whole instruction book: "Guitar for Baffled Pianists" ....

-- 04:38, 6 December 2010 (GMT)

Bunny42:

Um... why wouldn't we follow the links, again?

These are gorgeous. My father, who was a musician (played piano for Frankie Yankovic's Polka Band, among other things)had a steel guitar and played Hawaiian music on it. I have an idea that my aversion to country music, especially the kind with steel guitars, stems from the fact that I associate it with my dad, who left us for parts unknown when I was about seven years old. I remember him using a heavy metal bar to slide up and down the strings to get that almost nasally quality, which I didn't know at the time was Hawaiian. Now, thanks to you, I know that it was "all the rage" and very trendy for him to be playing. Huh.

"music always gets louder and more popular after a war"

Eh? What's this? Is this just a given, or do you know of history I could read to learn about this statement? The writer seems to pass it off as a given, like we should all know that. I didn't.

-- 13:35, 6 December 2010 (GMT)

Columbina:

I tend to assume, based on prior anecdotal evidence, than people don't follow links I post unless I physically drag them to them. (Not that I'm complaining too loudly, as I might crack the walls of my glass house; I'm very bad at following links myself.)

I took that "music always gets louder and more popular after a war" statement as an Unconfirmed Assertion. It's an interesting one though!

-- 15:56, 6 December 2010 (GMT)

Joy:

I can recite the "rap" from Rapture too. No shame in it!

-- 18:32, 7 December 2010 (GMT)

Mel:

I don't know if I know the entire rap, but I know enough of it that every time I look at this title I get an earworm. (Something about the man from Mars eating cars...)

-- 21:34, 11 December 2010 (GMT)

Ysabel:

I was going to point out something similar. Guitar scales really are just as obvious as piano scales are. The only digital dexterity required is understanding how to hold the string so that it will ring properly, which is just about the same digital dexterity required to control how hard you hit the piano key.

As someone who has done both, I promise you they're very nearly equivalent skills. Different, but of very, very similar difficulty (or lack thereof). It's just that you're unfamiliar and aren't sure how to look at it right, that's all.

-- 05:56, 11 January 2011 (GMT)