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Saturday Matinee Double Feature Two for One Total Running Time 3:34 "Stompin At The Savoy" Running Time 1:19 1934 Composed by Edgar Sampson
Romanza (Romance, Spanish Traditional) Run Time 2:24 Composer - Unknown I picked up unique sections of this piece from listening to and watching Christopher Parkening
Both tunes are a pleasure to listen to...but as an old guy that used to play an Onyx Black Rodgers XP8 their is a Gretsch kit in the background that somehow catches my eye...
Can't find the stairway to 'heaven'...but I know where the elevator is.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us" - Albert Schweitzer.
Great job Mike. Nice shots of all your studio gear too.
I took classical lessons from a friend a few years ago and the first song we worked on was Romanza. I did OK on much of it but I have trouble with barre chords on a classical neck as a result of a broken hand years ago....so I gave up
Yes yes the barre chords are murder, my hand hurts bad every day or other day, I cant imagine if it was once broken.
I try to rest it, BUT I'm so losing my mind stuck here all day & night doing nothing because of the vertigo and PAIN I HAVE to pick up the guitar. Really it's a nervous breakdown around the corner.
When it's really bad I put it in a brace/wrap and only us e my right hand to work on RH techniques and I'll also study the neck by eye and do some theory reading and watching guitar stuff..
The thing about this piece is adding that F# in between each chord on the way down. Guitarist Jack Marshall transcribed that and Chris Parkening his cousin made it seen and heard. Then there's notes in between the A chord and the B chord alternating bass notes.
It was tricky but I got it finally so I do one verse the regular way and the other that way. The very ending climb was my idea never heard that before.
Well when I was about 16 I was cutting class hanging out at the train tracks by school with a friend or two. I had my acoustic out as always, and this girl I knew from school walked by with a guitar case. Pretty girl with blonde curly hair and big blue eyes.
I said hi and she said I like that song your playing "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. I said "thanks whatcha got in that case"? She took out a nylon string guitar, and began to tune it up. She then started to play "Romance" I was mesmerized instantly by it. How can you love music and guitar and not me? First time I ever heard it...
I was like WOW that is awesome, could you teach me that? She said sure, sure it will take some time though,come by my house after school and I'll show it to you, here's my address.
So later that day I went over to her house, we sat down on the couch talked a bit with our guitars in hand. She starts playing the first few seconds of the song then stops puts her guitar down pushes mine aside and leans and plants a big wet kiss on me...
I'm like shocked, she finishes pulls back looks at me with those big blue eyes and I look straight back at her and say "Are you gonna teach me that song now" LOL
True story, I swear it, can you imagine this? Raging hormones and all NOTHING comes before my music, never has never will. All those guys who made music in high school would have jumped at this and all of them don't play anymore. I was always about the MUSIC even if I was in a rock band!!!
Haha, Mike. I meant to ask you about the story but forgot while I was typing my comments. Thanks for the chuckle. I would have left the song for another day and then learned it...And I still play although nothing like you do.
She only knew the first section which there really is only two sections. But Nope I learned it then split basically. retrospect That's not me, not who I am. I was moved by the song and I didn't kiss people I didn't know well or had some feelings for.
Now I sit here can't do much at all and think boy what the hell was I thinking all those years
Yeah Mike....music is both a cruel and wonderful mistress. But she is as loyal as a puppy dog...always willing to reward you if you have the patience and time...I've been married to her now for fifty years and though she frustrates me at times she is ALWAYS there for me.
Larry
Can't find the stairway to 'heaven'...but I know where the elevator is.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us" - Albert Schweitzer.
Yeah Mike....music is both a cruel and wonderful mistress. But she is as loyal as a puppy dog...always willing to reward you if you have the patience and time...I've been married to her now for fifty years and though she frustrates me at times she is ALWAYS there for me.
Larry
Oh yes I've been in for 45 years myself now and the MUSIC never lets you down. The Business of Music is the complete opposite "It breaks your heart and leaves you wondering" to quote my own line in "Taking On Forever"
Beautiful, Mike. I LOVE house concerts, the kind where I can listen to and watch great music being made, while in my bathrobe! You can perform at my place anytime. Play on!
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