I had to look up Twin Rocks Oregon. Based on the lyrics, I think it's a fictional place. Good song. Thanks!
ETA: I watched the second video. He is a good story teller.
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Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:38 pm
by John Thomas8
bill_g wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:29 am
I had to look up Twin Rocks Oregon. Based on the lyrics, I think it's a fictional place. Good song. Thanks!
ETA: I watched the second video. He is a good story teller.
I love al of Soul's Core, but this one is my favorite:
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:39 am
by bill_g
John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:38 pm
I love al of Soul's Core, but this one is my favorite:
https: //youtu.be/78b49UmBois
I'm unfamiliar with his work. He's got some Tom Waits and Gordon Lightfoot qualities to him. Great guitar, smoother voice, just as much emotion, but a lot less famous.
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:06 am
by northland10
And so I wondered, did somebody do Pink Floyd on the organ.. of course they did.
Here the organist starts with an improvisation on the Sanctus chant from Missa Orbis Factor to read into Pink Floyd's Eclipse.
Chant and Pink Floyd in the same song. It works.
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:29 pm
by Volkonski
Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision to limit all musical, vocal and choreographic compositions to a tempo ranging from 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM) at a meeting Friday, the Russian state new agency TASS reported.
“(I) have announced the final decision, agreed with the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov, that from now on all musical, vocal and choreographic works must correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute,” Dadayev said, according to TASS.
Under Kadyrov’s directive, the region now ensures that Chechen musical and dance creations align with the “Chechen mentality and musical rhythm,” aiming to bring “to the people and to the future of our children the cultural heritage of the Chechen people,” Dadayev added.
Prominent Russian journalist ‘severely beaten’ in attack in Chechnya
The ban will mean that many songs in musical styles such as pop and techno will be banned.
Chechnya sits in the North Caucasus region between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.
It is an almost entirely Muslim republic, which includes part of Russia’s border with Georgia.
Kadyrov has been leader since 2007 and has used his time in office to stifle any form of dissent.
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:33 pm
by northland10
Volkonski wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:29 pmChechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
They must have experience being church leaders.
Too fast, too slow, too loud, too soft, too old, too new.. All at the same time.
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:16 pm
by Suranis
The klinky noise...
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:05 pm
by Uninformed
Take your pick:
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:53 pm
by northland10
I love the brass version with ELP but the biggest issue is it ruins a feature that I enjoyed when it was programmed in orchestra's I played in. It was one of the only times a violinist got to be tacet and sit back like those brass folks always do.
Of course, what is played with keyboards can be done on organ.
Of course, with some good loud trumpet ranks, you can do the regular Copeland version
Ha! That was brilliant! I know that song, and they did it so well. I loved it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:20 am
by bill_g
northland10 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:53 pm
I love the brass version with ELP but the biggest issue is it ruins a feature that I enjoyed when it was programmed in orchestra's I played in. It was one of the only times a violinist got to be tacet and sit back like those brass folks always do.
Of course, what is played with keyboards can be done on organ.
https: //youtu.be/fh9Hj1KFeKQ?si=AllcMnG5X1kVQjJF
Of course, with some good loud trumpet ranks, you can do the regular Copeland version
I'm not sure if the original object de parody was posted upthread (if it was I missed it,) but it is not itself too bad.
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:06 am
by Frater I*I
For Third Grandma...
For every one else listen to the end...
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:18 am
by Tiredretiredlawyer
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:32 pm
by Suranis
For your Drumming Pleasure.
Seriously, that guy was amazing. All that stuff and he still maintains the beat perfectly. What a Showman!
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:16 pm
by John Thomas8
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:50 pm
by raison de arizona
Amazing.
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:55 pm
by raison de arizona
Huh.
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Nina DiGregorio @NinaMDiGregorio wrote:
Eruption - Van Halen - Violin Cover by Nina D
My journey to learn Eruption began a few years ago, when I only had access to a 5-string fretless violin. I learned a small bit of it, and quickly realized that I would need to compromise the octave range, and the finger tapping in order to perform it. There are a few covers out there of violinists doing just that, and they are very impressive.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I did not want to do that. I wanted to sound like Eddie. Thus began my journey with the 7-string fretted violin. Pretty much the entire reason for having this instrument custom-made (thanks Wood Violins crew!) was to see if I could play Eruption. At the time of purchase, I wasn’t even sure if it would be physically possible to do the finger tapping, even with the new instrument.
Upon its arrival, my first task was to learn how to play the darn thing- it’s like a completely different instrument, the neck is huge, I am tiny, and the low strings are super thick. (I also had to buy a special bow to properly play it). If your bow arm falters by a millimeter, you will hit the surrounding strings. Once I had this part somewhat down, I knew I had to dive into the hardest part right away- to answer the question, “but will it tap?” I began with transcribing this beast of a solo into notation. If you play guitar, and you want to learn how to play pretty much anything, you can go to YouTube and find slow note for note tutorials on EXACTLY how to do so. This doesn’t exist for trying to translate guitar things to a violin. You’re on your own.
I tried it out with my normal rig. Pretty much dead sound. Nothing happening but noise. I had a few ideas for specialty pedals. Since you can’t really go to the store and try pedals any more, I bought one, it didn’t work, shipped it back, bought a different one, didn’t work, shipped it back, etc. ad nauseam. Months went by. It seemed for every step forward I took in achieving this technique, I took two steps back with new problems. For months, my poor family listened to what sounded like a train wreck falling on top of a car wreck falling off the Empire State Building. Brody even said to me, “it ain’t gonna happen.” So I locked myself away until it did.
I struggled and fought the limitations of the instrument. I had some hard practice days, but the best motivation for me is “it can’t be done.” It took a combination of newly learned left and right hand technique, played precisely, practiced slowly for clarity, FOREVER to even make the right sound. The spaces that you need to hit, quickly, on a fretted violin are much smaller than that of a guitar. I tweaked the effect chain and technique right up until the 11th hour on the very final day of doing this. One day near the end of it, I was practicing in the studio and Brody was taking a shower. When he got out, he said to me he thought I was playing the recording of Van Halen. That was my breakthrough day. I knew I was close.
I haven’t worked this hard since my masters recital on classical violin. I’ve ripped up my fingers to shreds, they bled, they blistered.
Eddie Van Halen was in a class all of his own. His sound, technique, rhythm, and musicality changed the game for all guitarists (and this electric violinist) that followed. I am a far better performer, a far better violinist, with a much larger range of abilities, thanks to the months (or years) I put into dissecting his style and taking the time to do this on a violin as close to how he did it (so effortlessly) on a guitar as possible. Thank you, EVH, for making so many of us better musicians.
Audio Mixing/programming, Drone footage and video editing, Fog jets and laser programming: Brody Dolyniuk
Filming: Patrick Rivera Photography
Lighting: Robert Brassard
Custom Made Eddie Van Halen Outfit: 3x Emmy-nominated costume designer Diana Eden
HMU: the MOBB Group
Graphics: Derryl Rice
Cannot think of the keyboard brand at the moment. It was plastered as an ad in my YT feeds and I recently checked on it. The keys are programmed to detcct how they are played. Hard or slow press, quick or slow uplift, they detect movements from the side when hands or fingers slide up or down the scale, pressing the top or the bottom of a key initiates a special effect too.