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In each octave, blow the lower notes harder than the higher notes. This not only keeps things in tune, but it makes your tone and volume more consistent across the scale. Playing a B takes much less energy than playing a D. Also, blow your higher octave more softly than your lower one. This is count...

P.S. I tried to play the box and it ate me alive. By which Josh actually means he learned a bunch of tunes on the box which he played beautifully, then stopped playing the instrument, presumably because it wasn't enough of a challenge. His cd is a brilliant piece of work. Maybe I'll start a fourth ...

chas wrote:Chris Norman once said to me, "Don't blame the flute for your inability to play it in tune."

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In terms of learning the real basic stuff, Michael Tubridy and Matt Molloy were the two players I studied a lot when I was learning to play. Phrasing, articulation, where to put rolls and cuts and taps, how to approach variations, all the stuff that's basically hard-wired into my playing. Mary Bergi...

You could always change your technique.



Though I guess pseudofolliculitis on your chest wouldn't be much fun either.

I think that's really the key. Boomchucking the first-position "cowboy chords" in standard tuning won't do much for anybody. Whatever tuning you use, you have to learn to play the thing.

Since it seems established that Kate Smith does everybody's favorite version of God Bless America, who does your favorite version of the Star Spangled Banner? The alternate version of "No W" by Ministry starts off with a scratchy, muffled "SSB" ernestly sung by a young woman acc...

Céline Dion is one of my musical heroes. So sue me. Well, different strokes, I guess. I remember hearing her surreally gooey version of "God Bless America" playing endlessly on the radio in the wake of Sept. 11 as my country began going batsh*t crazy, and thinking of Kundera and how close...

Coming to the session at Ri Ra Sunday, then?

I don't have any sensory associations with letters or numbers either, but musical intervals each have their own color.

And I can smell things by touching them with my hands. And I have recurring dreams where I experience music by eating it, or where I put food on a record player and listen to it.

The only "trick" I know is just listening to the thing a lot until you know what it's supposed to sound like. If you get to where you can sing the tune, the rest is just typing. The version of the tune I know is the one with three triplets in a row that djm quotes, but I've been meaning to...

I don't like standard tuning for ITM because there's not a complete D scale in the bottom octave. I'd at least drop the sixth string down to D. Plectrum vs. fingerpicking, well, people do both, but for me I want the drive and whomp a flatpick provides. I've done some nice fingerstyle arrangements of...

Like this one? Hell yeah.

Slate did a consumer guide to scooters a few years ago: http://www.slate.com/id/2093169/ . It doesn't include newer models like the Yamaha Vino, but it should give you some ideas about which direction to go in.

"You hear it in classrooms. And courtrooms. They'll say, 'Tell us ... in your own words.' Do you have your own words? Personally, I'm using the ones everybody else has been using. Next time they tell you to say something in your own words, say, 'Nigflot blorny quando floon.'"