Seeing as school is starting in a month, and I'm taking an AP Music Theory class, I better freshen up on my theory.

[QUOTE=Mister Blue Sky]Seeing as school is starting in a month, and I'm taking an AP Music Theory class, I better freshen up on my theory.[/QUOTE]

Ha, I'm taking AP Music Theory as well.

I've got a bunch of theory jelled up in my brain for a while...

[QUOTE=ICB]Ha, I'm taking AP Music Theory as well.

I've got a bunch of theory jelled up in my brain for a while...[/QUOTE]

I'm so worried I'm gonna do terrible in this class.

And now that I promised myself straight A's this year, it's going to be hard.

In my history, there's this site and a bunch of other music theory sites.

Well, kids, I'm goin' home, I've got places to be, chicks to do...talk to y'all whenever...

Okay so I have 200 rep now, but I have no clue how I got it. There is no message in my User CP or anything.

:confused: :confused:

[QUOTE=Byzantine]Okay so I have 200 rep now, but I have no clue how I got it. There is no message in my User CP or anything.

:confused: :confused:[/QUOTE]

DBJ probably added it to you in Site in the name change thread. A lot of people are reporting getting a +200 boost from someone. Since he's an admin, he doesn't have to set messages or any of that.

That's why Adam had -14978396 rep from Jeremy once.

My school doesnt offer AP music theory. :-( But I will be chilling with my Music theory from last year a lot so I guess i can learn a thing or 2.

I'm taking Popular Music Studies this year (sophomore), and by the time I leave high school I'm going to take AP Music Theory.

I don't know if my school offers AP music theory. It might be an AP class but maybe not, they don't specify with some classes here (Calculus, Art 5). If it is, I'll have 2 AP classes. Art and Theory. I'm glad I dropped Calc becaue I would've failed instantly.


Anyway, I just played bass for 4.5 hours straight. It was sweet but my fingers really hurt. I haven't played bass or much guitar in a month and today I had a really long jam session with some friends (started off as Bass Guitar and Sax then we found a drummer for the last 2 hours)
Our last song had just hit the 20 minute mark when the drummer's dad told us to turn it off and go home.

So I just came back from an open mic night. One of my closest friends from high school was playing, and since I hadn't seen her since Christmas holiday break for her birthday, she asked me to go, so I did.

The only issue I have is that I'm extremely uncomfortable around my friend's friends. My friend is either bi-sexual or lesbian (I forget, since it changes and I hadn't seen her for months), so that means that most of her friends are.

Now, don't get me wrong: I don't judge her for how she leads her life. I certainly wouldn't want to be judged for who I am. Besides, like I said, she was one of my closest friends in high school.

But, man, her friends are so gay.

Again, I'm not homophobic, but at every social-like event I'm at with these people, their homosexuality goes on parade to an extreme level. Example: hands going up skirts. Seriously. And then when they approach me, I feel queered out because I'm so uneasy around how they act. They think it's no big deal, but it's still kind of unsettling. I mean, I would say the same thing with a heterosexual couple, but a lot of this I base on past experiences (being the only straight male at her birthday party, for example, was very, very unnerving).

Anyway, to make a long story short, the open mic night was pretty awful.

The first band that played was a combination of Modest Mouse and a wounded seal. The three members were an acoustic guitar/singer, a Fisher Price accordian (I only wish I was kidding), and a xylophone. The singer absolutely sucked, and his pitch was waaaaayyyyy off, and his voice kept cracking the higher he got. But hey, he thought he sounded good, so more power to him. The other two members did not say a word.

The second act that played were these two idiots I went to high school with. I used to be okay friends with them, but let's just say there was a little skermish in an athletics competition. Anyways, one kid is pure gump, while the other is pure stoner.

The gump's guitar was overdriven on distortion way too much, while the singer's (stoner's) amp was turned way down so you could barely hear him. The gump had naturally no charisma, but stoner kid did okay in playing a lead part.

Then there's always the hilarious one-string solo where a bunch of the same notes are played as fast as possible with a bunch of slides going to each fret.

Seriously, this was one of the solos:

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But with each note being played a bunch of times, like such:

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(all one line, of course. But page deformation++ if I did so, heh)[/font]

I wanted to shout, "Congratulations! You know where the fret dots are!"

Forget it, you get the idea. But it was ear-splitting with the overly distorted guitar and then the almost no sound coming out of the vocal mic.

And plus, their last song was an absolutely stirring chorus of:

[quote]Where have the days gone? Or are they still here?
What's so wrong about smoking pot and drinking too much beer?
Ohh-ohh-ohh-oh! Ohh-ohh-ohh-oh![/quote]

Yes. They freaking stole the "Ohh" thing from "Vertigo" by U2. I could barely contain my laughing.

I do have to say that the stoner's lead parts were pretty good behind the gump's overly distorted, power chord, downstroking riffs.

And finally, my friend got up to play. She played eight songs or so because she was the only one that was good (the shop owner kept telling her to play, heh). Her voice has improved a ton since she was at university. She said that she plays a lot of open mic nights, and battled the butterflies by going out in front of new people all the time.

I could upload a song or two from her, but I doubt people would care, heh. Her biggest influence is Ani DiFranco (sp?) Ando ther artists like that... where they sort of do spoken-word over guitar chords.

The big shocker for me was that she asked me to sing with her on a song :o

But it sounded decent, so hey. Then she tried getting me to play guitar and I was like, nah, my four minutes of fame tonight are more than I expected.

There is a musical theory class at my school but if I'm not mistaken, it's only available for school band/orchestra kids. :(

Ive been to two open mics before.

The first was my friend Kevin, who is an incredible jazz and rock guitarist. He played great. I only watched him (he was on second last) and the last band. The last band called him up on stage and they played Purple Haze it was awesome.

Then the other one was awful. My friends stepdad played his songs, which were cool, but the rest of the people were a bunch of scene kids playing like screamo music and helpless guitar players playing Good Charlotte and Simple Plan.

That's the other "issue" I had with her friends, they were all scene kids. This meant stupid-looking skirts, socks pulled up all the way above the knees (red and black striped socks seemed to be "in"), and everything being black clothes-wise. It was like, am I at a concert for The Faint or what?!

More like a funeral.

Zing!

[QUOTE=Jom]That's the other "issue" I had with her friends, they were all scene kids. This meant stupid-looking skirts, socks pulled up all the way above the knees (red and black striped socks seemed to be "in"), and everything being black clothes-wise. It was like, am I at a concert for The Faint or what?![/QUOTE]

This is one of things that makes it tough to be naturally dark like me. "No, I'm not a scenester. I just like the color black, and I think I look good in it besides."

[QUOTE=Lunch]More like a funeral.

Zing![/QUOTE]


omg zing'd wootwoot.

Well, Im not scene at all but I wear all black shirts pretty much, because all of my favorite bands shirts are black.

Black shirt as long as it has a cool band on it is ok. I'm wearing a black Jimi Hendrix shirt right now :)

I wear colors. Though I have one or two black shirts.

You should've asked what color crayon they would be...

"Black... The color of my soul"

[QUOTE=Dancin' Man]You should've asked what color crayon they would be...

"Black... The color of my soul"[/QUOTE]

I'd like to throw people for a loop on that one. Either I'd give the honest answer (black-crimson), or I'd do something very silly (rotting pumpkin orange).

Mine is tye-dyed.

[QUOTE=Steerpike]This is one of things that makes it tough to be naturally dark like me. "No, I'm not a scenester. I just like the color black, and I think I look good in it besides."[/QUOTE]

[quote=Byz]Well, Im not scene at all but I wear all black shirts pretty much, because all of my favorite bands shirts are black.[/quote]

You guys missed the point, I think. Would I have clarified if I said that all these shirts were those pathetic black shirts from Hot Topic that talk about how voices inside their head direct them to do what they do, or how they see stupid people, or all that? Meh, sorry. Forget I said anything. [url=refl, not like that is hard to do] [/url]

They need one of those that says "My other body isn't ugly".

^T-Shirt Hell has one of those.

Blast, I thought I was original.

I have decided to plug Age of Silence whenever possible

NP: The Concept of Haste

[QUOTE=Lunch]Blast, I thought I was original.[/QUOTE]

lol phayle

I liked the part of Mind of Mencia where he said "it's like an ugly chick that wears a shirt that says 'cutie'."

[QUOTE=Jom]You guys missed the point, I think. Would I have clarified if I said that all these shirts were those pathetic black shirts from Hot Topic that talk about how voices inside their head direct them to do what they do, or how they see stupid people, or all that? Meh, sorry. Forget I said anything. [url=refl, not like that is hard to do] [/url][/QUOTE]

Point taken.

If I buy a shirt from Hot Topic (yes, they do have some good stuff), I try to avoid the typical array of cliches. My favorite is one with a Mark Twain quote on it.

Hot Topic is basically the only place around here that has band shirts. Luckily for me, I haven't wanted a band shirt in a long time.

I use the internet for band shirts. I'm more focused on buying patches now though.

I got my Jim Morrison shirt from Hot Topic, and my Bob Marley one. Everyone else in the world has all the other shirts there, so I don't go there much anymore.

[QUOTE=Lunch]Hot Topic is basically the only place around here that has band shirts. Luckily for me, I haven't wanted a band shirt in a long time.[/QUOTE]
You're obviously not looking very hard. The JC Penney's and Kauffman's around here both have bandshirts.

I got a Tool shirt from Samgoody today. (it was cheaper than Hot Topic)

In the mall near me, theres a band that carries just band shirts, and the cd stores carry them as well. Lucky for me Hot Topic isn't in Canada, or at least not around here.

[QUOTE=jpj]You're obviously not looking very hard. The JC Penney's and Kauffman's around here both have bandshirts.[/QUOTE]

Sorry, I don't wear AC/DC shirts so I don't go into those stores.

Seriously though, I don't have a Kauffman's, but I've seen a couple shirts at JC Penny's. Mainly AC/DC, Kiss, Rolling Stones, maybe a few Hendrix ones.

As I said, Hot Topic does have some good merchandise if you know where to look. I have a couple of T-shirts from there. And I got my brother his fedora there. He wanted one to go with his suit because it makes him look like a very young Al Capone.

I got 5 pink floyd shirts

/over kill

[QUOTE=Kingofdudes]I got 5 pink floyd shirts

/over kill[/QUOTE]

i thought 4 was enough :)