The silver flute beat box guy! :-D I love him! I was showing that exact video to a friend last week while I was up in Nova Scotia. See, my uncle who gives me guitar lessons plays guitar, piano, sax, and silver flute! He's been performing in various little bands (2/3/4 people) for oh, probably the last 45 years on at least one of those, but flute is his favorite and his primary. He practices every day and I loved hearing him through the woods / across the lake while I was up visiting.
I thnk you've got plenty of music cred :-p I could never play anything that requires solid breath control, so flute, I probably couldn't do well at. And karaoke! Gah. I sing in the car when nobody is around, and when I need to clear a room quickly with only slightly less panic than a fire alarm will cause. Props to you - and for doing that in front of a room of people you don't know. It's something I love to watch and listen to, but it's not something I do. You and I appear to have rather complimentary musical backgrounds.
That music store sounds great! My favorite shop in the DC aa is similar, but probably smaller: The House of Musical Traditions. Everything is old-timey and hands-on, all the staff are musicians and love to help you make your music, it's where I get my drums re-headed, my bows re-strung, and where my bones, doumbek, first bodhran, mandolin, and lap dulcimer came from. Good place, if you're even the area I also recommend that you give them a visit :-)
The funny thing about the sound on that one performance is that I think the mic I was playing into was down, but it had sounded great at sound check. I don't know what happened, but I share your preference for being in charge of my own sound... It was a sad thing. You wouldn't have known it from the room, though.... We had a hundred and fifty people stomping and clapping along in the first four measures once we got to the energetic part and we were blown away by the enthusiasm and excitement! (for reference, we were performing our very own personalized version of "The Captain's Wife's Lament", as often performed by Paul & Storm, occasionally with help from Wil Wheaton... But our version was talking about swing dancers, not sailers. listen here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slWesdezt58&) for the lyrics, and check out one of the two-guys-on-a-stage versions to hear what their performances usually sound like. Most are 13+ minutes because of all the pirate jokes they intarrrrrrsperse between the lines of the song. Or, perhaps, the intersperse lines of a 3-minute song amongst 10 minutes of pirate jokes? Either way, it was a great performance, even if I was the only person that could hear my guitar for most of it.
Babble, babble. When you do get brave and record, I would love to hear it!
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Date: 2012-08-14 01:39 pm (UTC)I thnk you've got plenty of music cred :-p I could never play anything that requires solid breath control, so flute, I probably couldn't do well at. And karaoke! Gah. I sing in the car when nobody is around, and when I need to clear a room quickly with only slightly less panic than a fire alarm will cause. Props to you - and for doing that in front of a room of people you don't know. It's something I love to watch and listen to, but it's not something I do. You and I appear to have rather complimentary musical backgrounds.
That music store sounds great! My favorite shop in the DC aa is similar, but probably smaller: The House of Musical Traditions. Everything is old-timey and hands-on, all the staff are musicians and love to help you make your music, it's where I get my drums re-headed, my bows re-strung, and where my bones, doumbek, first bodhran, mandolin, and lap dulcimer came from. Good place, if you're even the area I also recommend that you give them a visit :-)
The funny thing about the sound on that one performance is that I think the mic I was playing into was down, but it had sounded great at sound check. I don't know what happened, but I share your preference for being in charge of my own sound... It was a sad thing. You wouldn't have known it from the room, though.... We had a hundred and fifty people stomping and clapping along in the first four measures once we got to the energetic part and we were blown away by the enthusiasm and excitement! (for reference, we were performing our very own personalized version of "The Captain's Wife's Lament", as often performed by Paul & Storm, occasionally with help from Wil Wheaton... But our version was talking about swing dancers, not sailers. listen here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slWesdezt58&) for the lyrics, and check out one of the two-guys-on-a-stage versions to hear what their performances usually sound like. Most are 13+ minutes because of all the pirate jokes they intarrrrrrsperse between the lines of the song. Or, perhaps, the intersperse lines of a 3-minute song amongst 10 minutes of pirate jokes? Either way, it was a great performance, even if I was the only person that could hear my guitar for most of it.
Babble, babble. When you do get brave and record, I would love to hear it!