Author Topic: ZOOM (Read 11626 times)

Lockjaw Larry · « **Reply #180 on:** January 08, 2024, 12:28:13 PM »

Last year I flipped the slide on my 270 in G and have enjoyed it a lot. Since then I also flipped slides on other keys and enjoy playing them more than the factory normalized keys. Pressing the button takes the notes down, which suites my thinking patterns, just like bending takes the notes down. I’m liking my valveless chromes more and more.

Age · « **Reply #181 on:** January 08, 2024, 01:27:17 PM »

I dunno bro! The only thing that ever did for me was make Beer Barrel Polka a bit less boring.

Age

brorat · « **Reply #182 on:** January 08, 2024, 02:06:57 PM »

OK. I'm "pushing 80". (Well, pushing 77 but ... close enough.) In the last five years, I've kinda learned where the notes are on a solo tuned instrument. So, I'm proving to myself that an old dog can learn a few new tricks. Sit. Roll over. Shake.

But, things like "non-standard" tunings, flipping slides ... I dunno 'bout that. It's kinda like teaching an old dog to do long division.

Think I'll just stick to solo tuning and work really hard to figure how to play in a handful of keys, and just be satisfied with what I've accomplished.

Age · « **Reply #183 on:** January 08, 2024, 05:50:18 PM »

Yeah right, Doug!
Looking back (waaaaay back to when I was like 10 or 12

) I thinque I mightta gone with diminished or auggie tuning, but not after playing for over two years. I too have gotten standard tuning to work for me and, especially with my ADHD, there's no way I'd consider changing (and I'm actually in the third month of my eightieth year

)

Danny G · « **Reply #184 on:** January 08, 2024, 06:19:04 PM »

Thanks to the zoom meetings we have witnessed your truely amazing progress. My advice is to keep on doing what you're doing. It ain't broke, don't fix it.

Age · « **Reply #185 on:** January 08, 2024, 10:16:53 PM »

Did a little presentation / orientation / Chromatic aptitude thingy after church Sunday, and invited a couple of "embryos" to join us this Thursday to see what we do there. Hopefully we'll have a couple extra flies on the wall.

brorat · « **Reply #186 on:** January 09, 2024, 06:48:53 AM »

Quote from: Age on January 08, 2024, 10:16:53 PM

Did a little presentation / orientation / Chromatic aptitude thingy after church Sunday, and invited a couple of "embryos" to join us this Thursday to see what we do there. Hopefully we'll have a couple extra flies on the wall.

Great!

John Broecker · « **Reply #187 on:** January 09, 2024, 09:53:02 AM »

So, A.J.

Like me, you've been alive in 9 decades.

Best of health & happiness to you.

JB

Age · « **Reply #188 on:** January 09, 2024, 01:18:46 PM »

Let's see, I've seen the
40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's, 2-10's and 2020's
so yeah, I guess that's nine.

RichChrome · « **Reply #189 on:** January 09, 2024, 04:04:36 PM »

I believe I qualify for that club, I'll be 80 in May.

brorat · « **Reply #190 on:** January 09, 2024, 06:36:00 PM »

Any of us who are 75 or older are members of the 9 decade club😱😱

Grizzly · « **Reply #191 on:** January 09, 2024, 07:21:58 PM »

Quote from: brorat on January 09, 2024, 06:36:00 PM

Any of us who are 75 or older are members of the 9 decade club😱😱

Me.

Lockjaw Larry · « **Reply #192 on:** January 09, 2024, 08:11:06 PM »

Me too.

Age · « **Reply #193 on:** January 09, 2024, 09:33:55 PM »

O.F.C.P.U!
Old Fart Chromatic Players Unite!

Bernie9 · « **Reply #194 on:** January 10, 2024, 04:10:12 PM »

You yunguns make me smile. I have been a member for seven years and didn't even know it. LOL

brorat · « **Reply #195 on:** January 10, 2024, 04:29:48 PM »

If you're 85+, you are REALLY special. You've lived in TEN decades! How's that make you feel?

Age · « **Reply #196 on:** January 10, 2024, 05:26:19 PM »

It's startin' to hurt me head. Too much figurin'

Lockjaw Larry · « **Reply #197 on:** January 10, 2024, 06:20:36 PM »

Yeah Doug, and lots of us have lived in two centuries.
That thought makes my arthritis hurt.

Grizzly · « **Reply #198 on:** January 10, 2024, 07:12:44 PM »

Born the Year of the Lead Penny.

T

Age · « **Reply #199 on:** January 10, 2024, 09:39:24 PM »

Yeah me too

Age · « **Reply #200 on:** January 10, 2024, 09:43:27 PM »

I just remembered, I may be late to the party tmw, cuz I gotta go to the Dermo at 2:30. I'm sure I'll show up before it wraps up.

wolfman · « **Reply #201 on:** January 11, 2024, 03:53:34 PM »

Born in 1935,i guess that makes me a tenner
and a two centerien.🤗😬

Danny G · « **Reply #202 on:** January 11, 2024, 06:18:48 PM »

Sorry you were having iPhone problems tonight wolfman. Thanks for being there, I hope you could at least hear us. It was a good meeting

wolfman · « **Reply #203 on:** January 11, 2024, 07:02:14 PM »

Hi Danny,
No problem,good meeting.Enjoyed it all.

Roman

Age · « **Reply #204 on:** January 11, 2024, 07:14:35 PM »

Yeah, at least we all saw ya there.

Age · « **Reply #205 on:** January 11, 2024, 07:30:03 PM »

Yeah, I made it, but was like a half hour late. Good to see Tommy Stryker again, eh?

Went to my Dermo and got my yearly skin cancer check, PLUS I had a whole buncha those (about twenty) "old fart farkles" burnt off my face and noggin, so by tomorrow I'll prolly look like a burnt leopard or somethin' from "the walking dead" or worse.

Doc sez not to go around small children for a week or so, cuz I'll scare them so bad they'll prolly wet their pants. Actually that might be a lotta fun! Bwoaahahah!

elaect · « **Reply #206 on:** January 12, 2024, 10:38:57 AM »

Guys is there any settled time for the next event, I really wanna join

Vale · « **Reply #207 on:** January 12, 2024, 10:49:17 AM »

Quote from: elaect on January 12, 2024, 10:38:57 AM

Guys is there any settled time for the next event, I really wanna join

Every Thursday at 4:00 PM EST.

Age · « **Reply #208 on:** January 12, 2024, 01:09:33 PM »

Yeah, see ya there, kiddo!

brorat · « **Reply #209 on:** January 12, 2024, 03:58:23 PM »

Read a really good quote today. We who actively participate in this forum already understand this!

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ― Benjamin Disraeli

Don't let that happen to you!