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i've finally decided that my life is exciting enough to blog. YEAH YEAH YEAH! so that basically means that you can read about my adventurous dull life in detail on any given day. almost any given day. i don't think i'm really that adventurous.
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today was a beautiful day in portland!
this morning started out with a bike ride to my final in music theory. it was sonata allegro and rondo structural analysis, courtesy of hayden and beethoven respectively. considering that i, along with all my lovely gay classmates, had only 60 minutes to analyze both pieces, i can't say that i performed at optimum capacity... or rather that i analyzed at optimum capacity. meh. hayden sure was a deep guy. so, so deep. so soft. white light energy. positive ra... nevermind.
move forward 4 hours. disclaimer: next 2 paragraphs are pretty rough. skip over them if you're not a musician.
every friday afternoon, the PSU jazz department throws a big jam where students, faculty and an illusive "guest artist" shows up to "blow over some changes." exciting, right? the last time it was exciting was back in 2003 when dan duval showed up baked out of his mind and took 7 choruses through "mr. pc" with the octave pedal and sparkle drive he had just purchased. hot shit.
my point to this? today was the faculty jam. the house rhythm section (you know... guitar, bass, drums, piano) was faculty and then students could play the head of the tune and then jam out over the changes. i played on "caravan" - the afro-cuban jam ala duke ellington and during my improvisation, resorted to blisteringly fast leads over alternate changes (or maybe it was all just outside...). you think i wanted this? no. the guest bass player decided to walk lines over chord extensions. i think the rhythm section played 7 'A' sections in a row, cause the bass player never played the root at the top of the fojkashga'rajkef.
this evening i'm spending some quality time with my vibe brother dirty dan. some quality radiohead time listening to his newly obtained bootleg, and some quality herb time watching him consume organics. ha.
i'm out.
p.s. i need maracas and hand clapping volunteers for a track i'm working on. do you have maracas or hands?
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today was a beautiful day in portland!
this morning started out with a bike ride to my final in music theory. it was sonata allegro and rondo structural analysis, courtesy of hayden and beethoven respectively. considering that i, along with all my lovely gay classmates, had only 60 minutes to analyze both pieces, i can't say that i performed at optimum capacity... or rather that i analyzed at optimum capacity. meh. hayden sure was a deep guy. so, so deep. so soft. white light energy. positive ra... nevermind.
move forward 4 hours. disclaimer: next 2 paragraphs are pretty rough. skip over them if you're not a musician.
every friday afternoon, the PSU jazz department throws a big jam where students, faculty and an illusive "guest artist" shows up to "blow over some changes." exciting, right? the last time it was exciting was back in 2003 when dan duval showed up baked out of his mind and took 7 choruses through "mr. pc" with the octave pedal and sparkle drive he had just purchased. hot shit.
my point to this? today was the faculty jam. the house rhythm section (you know... guitar, bass, drums, piano) was faculty and then students could play the head of the tune and then jam out over the changes. i played on "caravan" - the afro-cuban jam ala duke ellington and during my improvisation, resorted to blisteringly fast leads over alternate changes (or maybe it was all just outside...). you think i wanted this? no. the guest bass player decided to walk lines over chord extensions. i think the rhythm section played 7 'A' sections in a row, cause the bass player never played the root at the top of the fojkashga'rajkef.
this evening i'm spending some quality time with my vibe brother dirty dan. some quality radiohead time listening to his newly obtained bootleg, and some quality herb time watching him consume organics. ha.
i'm out.
p.s. i need maracas and hand clapping volunteers for a track i'm working on. do you have maracas or hands?