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Sooperdooper secret message to OperaTenor
Topic Started: Nov 26 2006, 09:25 AM (276 Views)
ivorythumper
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Thanks again for dropping by last night -- we loved the ragtime!!! :clap:

Here's the link I promised!
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Frank_W
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Love it!! What a great link! I love the music covers, too! I'm using one as my current wallpaper. Thank you! Thank you! :excited: :thumb:
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OperaTenor
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Thank you for having us!

Wow, you weren't kidding about that link. Fantastic!



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JBryan
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Great link IT. It has already helped me out. I found the Bohemia Rag which I played many years ago but now have about one and a half pages of.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

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ivorythumper
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JBryan
Nov 27 2006, 11:58 AM
Great link IT. It has already helped me out. I found the Bohemia Rag which I played many years ago but now have about one and a half pages of.

I'd love to hear a recording of you playing it.
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JBryan
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My dad wants me to record some stuff so he can listen to it (He lives 1200 miles away). I have had ragtime on the back burner for almost a year now devoting myself exclusively to Bach. However, the old man is probably only going to sit politely through so much of that so I plan to bring some of the ragtime I know back up to speed and add it on as an attention keeper. Don't plan to do any recording till the end of the year when I will be taking a vacation but I will see what I can put together and will share anything that doesn't embarass me too much.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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LadyElton
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So much for a "sooperdooper secret message", huh?
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ivorythumper
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LadyElton
Nov 27 2006, 01:50 PM
So much for a "sooperdooper secret message", huh?

How else am I gonna get your interest? :lol:
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OperaTenor
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While we're still on the subject of the visit...

IT and I were talking about how we play. He mentioned how he'd grown up playing by ear, and had recently been working on sightreading. I, however, memorize everything, because I have the bad habit of feeling the need to look at my hands from time to time while I play. I could be wrong in my perception, but IT seemed momentarily surprised when I mentioned I try to play what I memorize note perfect, as it is written. That came up as I was getting the message from my wife that our daughter was calling time on our visit, so we really didn't get to finish the conversation.

With regards to my playing, am I weird?



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ivorythumper
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More like awe -- I don't have that sort of memory to retain mental images of note patterns and then recall them to play. I can play a few easy songs from memory -- (Let It Be, Maybe I'm Amazed, parts of Fur Elise), but without sheet music I am often lost since I don't have a particularly well trained ear for notes or chord progressions.

I am intrigued by phantasmal memory --- what some call photographic memory -- and have know a few musicians who do enjoy that ability. There is a lot going on between the retention and recall, and then the muscle memory to play accurately. For those who have it, it is easy. For those of us who don't, it is just sheer labor.
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OperaTenor
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You flatter me. :redface:

FWIW, I do see the music as it appears on the page in my head. I feel as if I'm translating it t my hands.

I brought the subject up over at WTF too, to get additional feedback on it. I guess it's not as unusual as I previously thought. More like a normal stumbling block encountered when playing stride, or any other music with interval jumps in it. The key seems to be to know when to look down and not miss out on the music, and to not keep looking down after the need has passed.



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