flight of the conchords is funny

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?p=31321

aaron your review is up

Sure is, good stuff.

srsly wtf kind of name is Ms Daisy Sock Hoon Tan?? geez i've had some custom,ers with some funny names of late. Another one last sat was Mrs Saki Tomi.

Haha. Drag queen?

lol that would of been a little scary.

Great review Haz. ilu xox

ps. It's trumpet and tenor-horn used in [I]24th January 2005[/I].

yeah I was unsure of your source instruments

[quote=MeatPlowReview]his own skills as a classically trained musician [/quote]
This made me smile.

idk you said you were a percussionist in an orchestra or something, but i didn't want to give an impression your music is based around that

I did 8th-grade violin at Wollongong Conservatorium. Also did orchestral percussion [tuned and untuned] for my schools orchestra as well as HSC-piece accompaniment.

/music-nerd

Really?

[QUOTE=Aaron;17354313]Heyyyyy. You should stay and post dudeseph.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=gaslight]Good to see ya buddy.[/QUOTE]

Yeah I would but I only come to mx once every day or two to check in the soccer, footy and cricket threads. I'll try to post in here more often! Aussies represent.

Bloody hell These Days by Powderfinger is such a mad song. #21 on hottest hunj.

Yeah they are a quality group those boys.

its a fairly generic listing i guess for triple j, but so far ive been happy with the amount of songs i like in the countdown

too much mainstream for me, i reckon i could whittle the 100 down to 10 or 15 that I would enjoy. But thats just me

[quote=gaslight;17354443]Really?[/quote]
Yeah man.

I started violin at age 3. I did "pre-reading" for grades 1,2 & 3. Never did exams though. Did a bunch of eisteddfods and went away on tour. Didn't keep my attention past 12 though, and it coincided with my teacher joining Vienna Phil [she was 1st chair of the SBS Youth Orchestra for years] so I stopped lessons and playing when she left.

Did guitar lessons for eighteen months after that and then decided to take up drums. The same day I had my first drum lesson I joined a nine-piece latin fusion band at my church. I got put on congas and hand-percussion and learnt rudiments on hand percussion, then progressed through orchestral/caladonian snare work to timpanis and and kit. I also was a baritone in our school's male choir, lol.

That's the story of my musical education.

Nice one.

I'm working really hard on getting more bass students at the moment.

I'm going on a big drive of transcribing more songs for my teaching library. Going to try and do at least one a day, however simple, for as long as I can.

I tried to teach myself bass by loaning one of Phil's, but found it odly hard.

It's a strange beast the bass, bless it. No matter how much I like playing guitar for fun, in a band context it's bass for me any day of the week.

Am I right in thinking that the role of bass is similar to timpanis and cello; it's meant to link the melody and the rhythm? I know that's an obvious way to say it, but it represents the melody in the rhythmic pattern that the drums are playing?

Yeah in general you can think of the bass as the glue between the guitar and drums. Which is kind of a rock trio analogy for the glue between melody and rhythm.

When I tried to play bass I generally played 8ths or 16th notes of whatever the chord was dependent on the drums.

That's as good a place to start as any.

The first concern with learning bass is definitely solid time keeping.

I happily have good timing with most instruments. The hardest thing is being confident to ignore the placement of the beat while playing in time, so that you can really use the full range of note weights available, without getting in the way of others.

Yeah I've got quite good natural time feel as well. I pity the people who have naturally bad time and need to do metronome practise all day just to keep their **** together.

I can generally go pretty good on a drum kit in terms of staying with the time, it's just I lack the familiarity with the kit to know how to execute a lot of what I want to express, especially in terms of limb independence moreso in the legs. Lots of fun learning though.

I don't think I've used a metronome since I've been able to read :lol:

These days I use one to check myself in normal times and to practise in strange times for fun.

There's some pretty esoteric metronome exercises you can do that are brutal, like, set it really slow, so it's clicking only the 1 at 40bpm or something, clap along with it for a while, turn down the volume for a minute or two, turn it back on and see if you kept perfect time. Torture.

Yeah, I've done that occasionally. I'm more into practicing to asymmetrical loops and stuff.

Asymmetrical how?