I remember when I was learning harmonica, and my friend Chuck Byrd went through blues progressions on his guitar with me, I'd say how do you know when the chord changes are coming. He'd say, well, you can learn the progression structure and count measures, but, don't think about that right now, just keep on playing and you won't even remember when it became second nature for you. Of course, he was right, we still count somewhere back in our brain, but don't conciously do it.
Man, I wish that guy was still around.He's the one that stepped in front of a car and flew through the air, head over heels, for more than a hundred feet from the point of impact, with more than half his brains knocked out. He technically died 3 days later with a hundred tubes in him at the hospital. It really busted me up inside, and scared the hell out of the blind folks in the San Francisco bay area, because as skilled as he was at getting around, if it could happen to him it could be anybody next. He had more sense than me, Chuck was an anthropology student, and was gonna go off to the jungle somewhere and study the natives. He probably would have had such a great time he'd have forgotten about writing his scholarly paper and found him a sweet native girl and never been heard of in the civilized world again.
The driver of the junk car that killed him got away scot free, by the way.Stephie will find the same thing happening to her with intuitively understanding blues progressions. She'll get so she just knows somehow, even when it's a non traditional blues progression. That's what's so comforting about blues, it's predictability, even when it's innovative.
Same with hymns of the 1800's.You can play along with them immediately, even when you never remember hearing them before. They're so right on that there couldn't be any other way they could have been written.
On 11/14/2011 6:58 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
Welcoming Indigo to our little assorted motley crew 'grin'. It's a very friendly and highly motivated and productive group over here. You'll have plenty of window-eyes company too, since Ross, tom, and myself Roy, Eddy, and Megan all use window-eys. Definitely not a jaws dominated list. We've been discussing operating systems, reason, omnisphere, and everything else. I hope you stick around because your in to about everything, maybe you could give my wife some pointers on flute since you play some. She's getting the hang of it, and perhaps I can help you out with some stuf too. I just want to do it all in one place. I'll address some of your issues here about your networking concerns so everyone can benefit, and there is a systems builder here, DJX is quite knowledgeable about these things, and we haven't found a good tool to measure Tom's iq yet 'grin'. But even though it's sort of the cardinal rule not to put your music machine on line, you can disable your network at any time, in xp go to control pannel, and network connections, and local area connections, hit the file menu and it's a togggle in there. with w7, I forget the exact procedure right now, but if you type network in the search box, you'll probably find it. Everyone here is running w7 now, I'm the old die hard who's still holding out, but the old saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Let's see if the next incarnation of window-eyes is more stable with w7. but if you don't go browsing and doing unnecessary email and other junk on your music machine, it's not the worst thing in the world to have it on-line. YOu need to get a router, so you can have multiple machine on line, and that will help you be more protected too. Just using nat itself offers a little protection, and many routers have firewalls and dmz and also, I don't know if this works for w7, but I use something called drop my rights, written by microsoft or an ex employee or something, and wha that does is that anything you run through it makes you not an administrator, that's how lots of these grubbies get in, because with xp, people went surfing as an administrator, i run ie and firefox and whatever with diminished rights and we have not had any trouble since I did that. w7 of course has beefed up security, but whatever you do, don't run ie 9 it's not ready yet. Also as you know, imaging your system is very important, so you can return to a good known state. so before you do anything really important, I'd highly recommend that. Image for windows dos and linux from terrabyte is the best and most accessible with the most options for us, and is recommended by the cavvy school I forget who sponsors i, Stephie could tell you, but it's yeh sisco, that the one, but they use that and I can tell you it has saved my but more times than I could remember. If you spring for a speech synth, tom and I both like to run one, granted, it's an investment, but if you do, you will have independance with doing your own back-ups interactively. It's the only way to fly when your blind 'grin'. for those machines that don't have a com pot, you can use the linux versiion to ssh in via a network cable and control things that way, i haven't done this yet, but i know it can be done. Other blind folks are doing it. But as long as they've got serial port headers on motherboards, and we don't have talking installs like they do on the mac, you won't catch me buying a machine without one. There's also something called the weasel, which I'm poanning on getting, which gives us access to the bios. YOu don't have any pci slots though, and I don't think there's a pci express version yet. It's about 3 bills, I saw it demonstrated in one of the cavvy classes I audited, and it's great. I don't build systems as often as djx does, but I do just enough of it that at some point, it might warrant me getting something like this. It'll certainly help with configuring machines, and the most important stuff happens in the bios, like turning off that pesky real-tech card, or turning off real time event monitoring, or putting your machine in ahci mode turned off. or changing your boot record, or adjusting video memory if you have to share, and adjusting cpu throtling, that's important when configuring a daw. YOu ant to turn off all these power savin things that might cripple your machine and raise your dpc latency. For all your audio production needs and technology training, visit us at www.affordablestudioservices.com or contact Chris Belle cb1963@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or Stephie Belle stephieb1961@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for customized web design
