I am the listener, and your auspicious audience… whether you guys are playing with skirl bagpipe and horn battle march, or what… it is an emotional effect when you slide on your axes; and true there can be nothing worse than a bad piper… so I have heard 2% slide attempts.

I like how Lowell bogarts his fag… and Germania asks “Can you show us something more difficult…?”

Sheeeez, you can take the German out of the Lutheran Church, but not all the way. I think Sans is without Sans and is just Direction now that I hear his modal argument on efficient sliding, no?

From the engineer’s bell book: Full ahead engines; hard over rudder–

And now for our Sylvia Plath moment of truncated prose on pruning the pear tree….

PatrickisnoAprilFool’s last blog post..MooPig’s: Report from the Middle… Schooler

Good points, Sans.

One thing I noticed early on was that if I’m just sitting around the yard playing some blues in an open tuning, I will have tendency to defy temperament and tune the third to a perfect interval. It makes a fat, gorgeous, rich chord. But, when playing with a band, especially with a keyboard player-it’s not going to work because the whole western world is set up to work in a tempered tuning.

It all started to go south with Pythagoras.

But harmonically, the real third is a bit back from the major third we’ve been told about. And the real note is somewhere between the sixth and the dominant seventh. You can get there with bending, but that’s hard. And it’s easy as pie with a slide. If a player is good, he can use a slide to get exactly to the right note.

Of course, if a player is bad, nothing in this world sounds worse.

Sans Direction’s last blog post..If you keep pickin’ that thing, it’ll never heal