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No really!
They say you learn something new every day. Fuck that! There are a shitload of days where I don't learn squat. I bet you're the same way. So let's learn a bunch of new things at once to make up for all the days where we sit on our lazy asses and play Skyrim.
So I'm going to kick this off with one of the few areas I have any expertise in: the harmonica. Something a lot of musicians (especially guitar players) get really confused about is the key we harp players choose. I will now make it really easy!
Anytime a song is in a major key and wouldn't sound good with a bluesy harmonica, the key of harmonica to use is the same as the key the guitar player is in. If the song is in G, you need a G harp for this sort of thing. Folk music does this a lot. If you play Dixie on a harmonica, you're playing straight harp. Also you're likely in the Confederate army at a Civil War reenactment, unless you're reenacting the time Lincoln said it was one of his favorite songs. See! You're learning all kinds of things.
Blues is what the harmonica is famous for. So when you're playing the blues (most of the time) you're going to play the harmonica very differently. This is where cross harp comes in. You accent the draw notes instead of the blow notes, and you start doing a lot more bending (you can bend the first 7 draw notes of a harmonica, and the last 3 blow notes). This gives you that famous rock and blues harmonica sound, and it also changes the key you're playing in. In fact, the harmonica was not initially designed to be played this way at all, but nowadays we have specially designed harmonicas to make this easy (like the Hohner Special 20, which is actually my personal favorite harp). You'll need to play the harmonica where the song key is a fifth above the harp key. So if your guitar player says, "Blues in E!" you'll need an A harmonica. C harps play in G, D plays in A, G plays in D... etc.
Finally, there's a very little-known style called slant harp. This is for minor keys and special minor blues tunes. An example a lot of you have undoubtedly heard is the well-known opening song to The Wire, Way Down in the Hole.
This has a very special scale arrangement, and you can't be as loosey-goosey as you can on straight or cross harp. You'll have to look it up if you're interested in playing this sorta difficult style. But the trick to finding your key in slant harp is to play a whole note key below the song's minor key. So, if your guitarist says he's in E minor, you need a D harp. If he says he's in D minor, you need a C harp. Easy!
Now it's your turn. Teach me some things!
They say you learn something new every day. Fuck that! There are a shitload of days where I don't learn squat. I bet you're the same way. So let's learn a bunch of new things at once to make up for all the days where we sit on our lazy asses and play Skyrim.
So I'm going to kick this off with one of the few areas I have any expertise in: the harmonica. Something a lot of musicians (especially guitar players) get really confused about is the key we harp players choose. I will now make it really easy!
Anytime a song is in a major key and wouldn't sound good with a bluesy harmonica, the key of harmonica to use is the same as the key the guitar player is in. If the song is in G, you need a G harp for this sort of thing. Folk music does this a lot. If you play Dixie on a harmonica, you're playing straight harp. Also you're likely in the Confederate army at a Civil War reenactment, unless you're reenacting the time Lincoln said it was one of his favorite songs. See! You're learning all kinds of things.
Blues is what the harmonica is famous for. So when you're playing the blues (most of the time) you're going to play the harmonica very differently. This is where cross harp comes in. You accent the draw notes instead of the blow notes, and you start doing a lot more bending (you can bend the first 7 draw notes of a harmonica, and the last 3 blow notes). This gives you that famous rock and blues harmonica sound, and it also changes the key you're playing in. In fact, the harmonica was not initially designed to be played this way at all, but nowadays we have specially designed harmonicas to make this easy (like the Hohner Special 20, which is actually my personal favorite harp). You'll need to play the harmonica where the song key is a fifth above the harp key. So if your guitar player says, "Blues in E!" you'll need an A harmonica. C harps play in G, D plays in A, G plays in D... etc.
Finally, there's a very little-known style called slant harp. This is for minor keys and special minor blues tunes. An example a lot of you have undoubtedly heard is the well-known opening song to The Wire, Way Down in the Hole.
This has a very special scale arrangement, and you can't be as loosey-goosey as you can on straight or cross harp. You'll have to look it up if you're interested in playing this sorta difficult style. But the trick to finding your key in slant harp is to play a whole note key below the song's minor key. So, if your guitarist says he's in E minor, you need a D harp. If he says he's in D minor, you need a C harp. Easy!
Now it's your turn. Teach me some things!
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the only culturally acceptable reply is "Victory to you!"
they actually have a myth of a certain kind of demon that waits on the road, and it is vital that if you are travelling you greet it first, because then it has to reply "Victory to you!" and loses all power to harm you.
(because you are victorious)
This sounds like something from The Witcher
Pretty neat!
A cricket's ears are located just behind their front legs
Turtles can breath through their butts
The crack of a bullwhip is actually a tiny sonic boom
The longest one syllable word in the English language is Screeched
In Detroit, Michigan it is against the law to tie Alligators to fire hydrants
That machinist was my grandfather and the mayor was his long lost brother, my great-uncle.
Trunk Club
When I read that, I was all :shock:
They only gestate babies for 4-5 weeks, after which time the fetal infants are born into the world, and must crawl up their mother's fur to the teats and pouch. Because of this their face and forelimb development are accelerated, but otherwise the newborn is very undeveloped (by mammalian standards).
The infants live in the pouch into childhood, eventually emerging for longer and longer periods of time, but still returning to the pouch to sleep or when threatened.
Steam: TestSubject23 | Minecraft: chaos_introvert | Backloggery: TestSubject23 | PSN: testsubject23
time for dan to move to europe
You can also find me on Twitter if you want to be inundated with my horrid opinions off the forums, too!
Utilize high dose Propofol / Etomidate / Fentanyl instead.
What
WHAT?
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
Yes, even poorer than Michigan.
Yet they take American currency and have artificially levied a 1:1 exchange rate.
There's also
http://www.idiotlaws.com/shooting-indians-on-horseback-is-legal/
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
http://www.idiotlaws.com/indians-traveling-in-a-group-of-seven-are-more-are-considered-a-war-party/
Oh right.
Fixed it.
Massachusetts has no entries on that site.
Victory for us.
Whoops, they're Volvos.
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
In May 2010 the chef at my local curry house in Bedford, killed and bagged a swan on the river, but was lucky to receive a 12 week suspended sentence due to admission of guilt : b
does that website cite any sources?
Fucking love mythology.