I read TC's post this morning and listened to a bit of the attached video. It seems that the 100-year-old fella might be moving to halt posts about windows, Catholicism and music practice.
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"No more silly posts!" |
I'm a bit worried about Rob playing his cello as a transposing instrument - 'a big violin'.
Well, I guess the world can survive a big violin.
I glove you Rob.
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A Poneke glove. |
Hey, except for clove, glove is the only proper noun you can make by adding one letter to the front of 'love'. Yes, yes, Peter will claim 'slove' to be a legitimate English word. I know he'll do this. Ah well, whatever keeps the old guy happy.
How's it going so far? Are you enjoying a bit of light relief?
Hey, and there is no truth to the rumour that Rob is looking to buy a capo for his cello.
If he did that, he might be tempted to sing folk songs. He'd have to keep The House of the Rising Sun in A minor. Actually, the open cello tuning could work pretty well for that.
Open strings: C G D A
Chords: (in 6/8 time) || Am | C | D | Fmaj7 | Am | C | E7 | E7 | Am | C | D | Fmaj7 | Am | E7 | Am | (E7) ||
He could just play the root notes of the chords to get started. Then he could add 6ths and 5ths to make double stops:
|| A over C | G/C | F#/A | F/A | A/C | G /C | G#/B | G#/B | A/C | G/C | F#/A | F/A | A/C | G#/B | A/C | G#/B ||
Well, there you go for today. Actually, Rising Sun might be easier in imagined violin tuning.
Ciao tutti.
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Will the new ROB the Ice Cream Man sign off with "Ciao tutti-frutti"?
They'd love that joke in Wainuiomata!
RBB
Yeah, I suspected that.
Oops, sorry, I was talking about a different joke. No one speaks Italian in Wainui. They just wouldn't get it. Please don't use that joke when you come here.
RBB
I'll try those chords out later.
I saw a musician with a fretted electric bass use a capo a couple of weeks ago at church; though it's not a sin, I did think it just as well RBB wasn't there.
Actually, using a capo on a bass guitar is a mortal sin.
RBB
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