Crotchet equals one hundred and twenty.

 I like crotchet = 120 because it is a great tempo for medium swing tunes.

You'll notice that I deleted my last post. I got up in the middle of the night to do that. I just thought that I was getting a little negative. I was tempted to call this post...

Make Blogging Great Again - MBGA

but that sounded too much like saluting Donald who is back in power this morning.

For some reason our bathroom tap
always reminds me of Donald.

There are only two of us left in our little blogging community now. The Catholic presence, along with church shops, rosary beads and sucking up to the Virgin Mary, has gone.

At least we can still talk about downsizing and metronomes.

Downsizing:

This happens when you acquire too many things. You may have some sort of attachment to all of these things, but they are tying you down. How are they doing that? I guess it's like having a very big family who are all relying on you. It could also be like being attached to an organised religion - in some religions you have to wear a silly hat, wherever you go. In others you're expected to be at Mass every Sunday AND you get landed with Original Sin - all because of bloody Eve! I mean, I could understand if it was a bottle of Cleanskin chardonnay that tempted her, but an apple?

Downsizing happens when you finally remove things that you don't really need. Sort of like walking away from a blogging community because you no longer want to communicate with the other bloggers. Maybe they are atheists, or maybe one of them has been in 3P.

Metronomes:

Apart from playing long notes for tone and checking your intonation, practising with a metronome is one of the most important things that a musician can do. Never underestimate it! For my jazz playing I like to practise at crotchet = 120, especially when practising swing tunes. Then I like to move the metronome up to crotchet = 240. Let's imagine that we're practising walking likes on a double bass. At solo time you may want to use quavers (eighth notes). I have found that crotchet = 240 is a good speed to get these two things under control. Then, when you feel ready, you can slowly increase the speed. The quavers that worked at crotchet = 240 should move up to faster speeds pretty easily. It's all about getting those fingers comfortable.

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I know, I know, you want a few pictures. 

Here we go...

3P

belly buttons

ex-blogger

crotchet = 240

a pillar of the church

3G, the guys who didn't make
it into 3P

Father Orange

Ciao tutti.