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Offline Pandora

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Double-Take Five
« on: March 20, 2013, 03:19:21 AM »
"You can do anything when you're wearing sunglasses."

Take Five - Unorganized Hancock

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The Heir is doing all the heavy lifting. He is playing three parts on the recording. He has learned to play the bass fairly well, even though he only recently started messing around with it. He tried to cajole a handful of his friends to play along with him, but they all fall out almost immediately. He decided to do it himself. With the help of my readers, he's able to record multiple tracks now, and makes the most of it. It's a tiny little thing, his multitrack. But it works. He recorded the rhythm guitar part along with his brother, in one take, and then added the bass, and then the melody and the solo. His little brother never misses, so he gets to go back to playing Minecraft right away.

I know him, the Spare Heir. He's thinking of playing Minecraft the whole time he's playing Take Five. I'm certain of that, because I remarked to him, after the last cymbal strike decayed into hiss and the recorder was turned off, that I thought he played really well, and he looked at me funny and immediately started in with: My Minecraft mod has such-and-such and so-and-so in it and blah, blah, blah...

Honestly, I don't know how he does it. He's still only nine.

I can't play Take Five properly on the drums. There is no one in Oxford County, Maine, that can, probably. It's in odd meter: 5/4. If you're unfamiliar with that term, watch it again and count the beats as the measures go by. You're probably used to doing that. 1 2 3 4, you go. Count 1 2 3 4 5 for this song. It's how the song got its name, of course.
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Re: Double-Take Five
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2013, 08:14:40 AM »
Excellent piece!
Good tune to set my head right on a "sword-of-Damocles" kind of day.
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Re: Double-Take Five
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2013, 09:48:41 AM »
Ahhhh.... children channeling Dave Brubeck. Love it!
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Re: Double-Take Five
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2013, 09:49:52 AM »
Great piece!!

I still like a little sax before my breakfast, though. ::unknowncomic::
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