Hello ARdith,   
      
   On Tue 2039-Mar-08 21:06, Ardith Hinton (1:153/716) wrote to Anybody   
   Interested:   
      
   AH>     Improvisation      -- what we do when the music falls down    
      
   Also what we do when we're running out of songs to play and   
   want to make them last longer.   
      
   AH>     Chords             -- something organists play with one finger    
      
   Depends on the organ I guess, but never was able to do that   
   with a Hammond b-3 (and glad that wasn't available there.)   
      
   AH>     Discords           -- something organists play with two fingers    
      
   Oh yeah, especially if you're fat fingered or had a little   
   bit too much whiskey by the end of the night.   
      
   AH>     Suspended Chords   -- useful for lynching the vocalist   
      
   Known a few of those for which that would have been   
   appropriate.   
      
   AH>     Time Signatures    -- trivial details often irrelevant to   
   AH> drummers    
      
   WOrked with a few who resembled that remark .  I   
   endeavor not to.   
      
   For drummers for whom that was true often dynamics are   
   trivial as well.   
      
   AH>     Melody             -- an ancient, now almost extinct art in song   
   AH> writing    
      
   Oh yeah, that's for sure.  Back when I was doing studio for   
   hire I did a rap album for a young man.  Never again!!!   
      
   Then there was the alternative band, not bad melodies, some   
   good words, but they wanted to run their vocals through   
   these awful guitar stomp boxes and a guitar amp and have   
   that track dominate over the actual capture of the singer's   
   voice in the room.     
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   --- timEd 1.10.y2k+   
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