Gettin' Chill

walrus

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That was great!

Rich, I'm assuming he's got that A/C rattling in a nice funky way! Great A/C accompaniment and great keyboard playing!

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Explain please!

OK. I will try.

There is a musician, probably out of work, probably bored out of his tree.

There is a noisy air conditioning unit that may or may not be driving the musician nuts.

I would guess that he samples the noise from the aircon and uses it as a funky rhythm track to improvise over.

The thread title is a pun. "Getting chill" Being cool. Getting funky. Being chill with the aircon unit.

I found it amusing. I put in the Funny Papers pigeon hole.
 

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Ah, I thought the A/C was playing solo, didn't know it was sampled. Cool!

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Ah, I thought the A/C was playing solo, didn't know it was sampled. Cool!

walrus

I suspect there may be some technical jiggery-pokery involved in getting the aircon to sound like it is playing in strict and funky time.
 

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Oh wow, I thought we had another keyboardist on board, and a really good one! Still, that was entertaining!
I suspect there may be some technical jiggery-pokery involved in getting the aircon to sound like it is playing in strict and funky time.
Yeah, it's just isolate and cut a well-timed section and then paste it onto a track over and over so it's a steady beats per minute. Of course, then he brings in another drum track. Very clever!
 

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I'd sell my sole for that kind of dexterity ;]
The touch-sensitive keyboard on my Motif XS7 is super fast and I can get in a lot of notes in a short amount of time. I've been playing keyboards (messing around, mostly) for, like, 65 years, and that guy is a lot better than me. That's the thing about keys -- so many guys and gals are super accomplished! Still, I have my fun!
 

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I do a mean Inna Gadda Vita... Church Organ is my favorite setting on dinosaur Roland D50, but it takes me two hands to with what good players do with one... I improvise to get around not being able to play well.

"Bob Mayo on the keyboard" That would be what I'd like to be able to do. Guys like that instantly make me believe in "God given" or innate talent.
 
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Outed ;]

The other fish is my '73 Relic P Bass. I was going to sell it, worth a lot more than the JS2, but when I plugged it in to do a tone comparison, there were all sorts of funky high and low and everything in between harmonic overtones that just aren't there on the JS2, the tone test lasted all of a minute, I could never sell the P Bass, hence the Guild on the chopping block.

I also fear owning instruments with angled headstocks, whereas I have no qualms jamming the P Bass in the back of a fully loaded station wagon in just a gigbag, so it's also about the instrument's preservation ;]
 

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I should also add that I am currently stuck at home, nursing my bedridden wife as she recovers from non-life-threatening abdominal surgery.

I have time on my hands.

I have stumbled into this pleasant and diverting site. Contributing takes my mind off my worries.

I hope your wife recovers quickly and you'll soon be worry free. You can stll stick around and contribute, even if you have no worries. ;)
 

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I hope your wife recovers quickly and you'll soon be worry free.

Thanks. The hard part is the pain.

It is both good and bad that she does not tolerate opioids well, good in that there is no danger of her becoming another prescription junkie and bad in that they are not available for pain relief because they cause nausea, and nausea after abdominal surgery is not a good thing at all. So it is ibuprophen and acetominophen only.

I am blessed that she is as tough as nails and pragmatic and good humoured. Without her, I would definitely be living under a bridge somewhere with a cool car, maybe a motorcycle or two, lots of guitars and amps, a monster stereo, and a black leather sofa. ;)
 

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That's a really fun and clever video. I like it when people sample percussion or "mechanical noise" and create music with it. It shows great creativity. It kind of reminds me of back when Joni Mitchell used one of those old pull-style cigarette machines for the percussive track for her song, Smokin' (Empty, Try Another). With Jaco Pastorius on bass, who can quibble with the result, even if you don't smoke? Here you go!!

 
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