Monthly Archive for July, 2007

Afraid of my own shadow

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Justin
on Tuesday July 24, 2007
in Music
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I got a call from a one the more beastly governor’s school jazz band graduates who needed a bass player for a gig on thursday. The gig is nothing special for him, but a sudden fount of anxiety for me. I turned him down. I am so out of shape on the bass that the thought of playing a gig terrified me. Well, a Jazz gig with real Jazz musicians anyway.

An introspective blog/rant on the subject is not what will cure how I feel right now. I need to practice. But this event prompts me to say something I now know is truth: Don’t ever allow anything to come between you and what you love– not money, not work, not fear. I don’t think there is a bigger mistake that can be greater cause for regret.

A Run Around The Block With Youtube

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Justin
on Sunday July 22, 2007
in Flickr & Youtube
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These days, it doesn’t take long for someone to expose you as a phony, but because it happens so often, we don’t really care:

Dan “Larry The Cable Guy” Whitney

Stacy “Fergie Ferg” Ferguson

Notice how both of them speak perfect English.

While we’re on the subject of Fergie Ferg, most people my age know that the single “Fergalicious” was just a boosted version of “Supersonic” by JJ Fad, I’m just a little irritated that none of these 17 year old Black-Eyed Peas fans realize it.

First the version you might be more familiar with:
Fergalicious by Fergie and Black-Eyed Peas

Now compare:
Supersonic by JJ Fad

Never Noticed This Before

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Justin
on Thursday July 19, 2007
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If you play arpeggios over any II-7 to V7 changes (two-fives), placing a passing tone (a scale or chromatic note) on the 4th beat will always resolve either up or down (and sometimes it can do both) into a chord tone of the next chord.

Let’s say we’re playing G-7 to C7:

G-7-------|C7-------|G-7------|C7---------|
G Bb D D# | E G Bb B | Bb D F F#| G Bb C Eb |

and so on..