FReeper Canteen ~ Tunes For Our Troops ~ 28 FEB 2015

Our Troops Rock !!!!!!!! | Canteen DJs

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
~ Dr. John & Odetta ~

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
~ Tom Waits ~

(Variations On)
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime
~ Dave Brubeck ~

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Being a former computer hardware tech, I hates software. All it ever seems to do is make my hardware appear broken. (Hardware is like a light bulb, it either works or it's broke and you replace it). Software gets tweaked every couple of weeks and it takes a PhD to keep up with the changes - (doesn't anybody still use the C:\> prompt anymore?)

Therefore, I'm not the guy to ask. I simply use Windows Exploder Explorer to make old fashioned directories and sub-directories (they call them folders these days, but they can't be folded).

I have a terabyte external drive called "Music Archive". Under it I create sub-directories by genre, i.e. "Country Cache", "Blues Vault", "Soul Shack", "Rock Pile", Pop, Swing, Surf, Show Tunes and what-have-you (I file some stuff by decade - 50s, 60s, 70s et. al.). Under the broad categories, I drill down to the sub categories (Art Rock, Alternative, Classic Rock, British Invasion, Southern Rock, Heavy Metal, etc.), and then the individual folders for each Artist. It's easy to find Willie in "Country" or The Beatles in "British Invasion". Under the Beatles, I have sub-directories for John, Paul, George & Ringo's solo stuff ("Wings" is under "Paul"), plus "Live", "out-takes", "rarities", "videos" and in their case a "Tribute" sub-directory of Beatles covers by other artists.

Some stuff is a bit more complicated, but, I've learned by trial and much error - for example: dividing by actual album title folders leads to too many folders, too many duplicates and it taxes my weak brain. "Eric Clapton" is in the "Guitar Greats" directory. Under Eric is Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & The Dominos, etc. Gary Moore has "Gary Moore with Colosseum", "BBM", "Gary Moore with Thin Lizzy" and "Skid Row" (his late 60s/early 70s Irish band, not the American 80s hair band with Sebastian Bach). To me, it's intuitive, and I think software, left on it's own to handle my files would be a train wreck.

I do use a few programs that help me "tag" (ID3V1/ID3V2) file info. I use Winamp to tag my songs (Album, Artist, Track #, Publisher, Composer) and I also tag all my "shared" songs with my Drumbo Thunder sig - my kitty cat taught me to mark my territory. I get a huge kick when I see my downloaded files recycled somewhere.

I do use simple shareware called "audiograbber" (by Jackie Frank) http://psyonix.com/wp-signup.php?new=www.audiograbber.com-us.net to "rip" CDs. It has FreeDB freedb.freedb.org built in, that identifies most CDs and names the tracks for me so I don't have to squint at CD liner notes and type too much with my two-finger "Biblical" method of "seek and ye shall find". I use a decade old, one time paid subscription to GoldWave, an MP3 editor that lets me chop album files into individual songs and has a million "effects" (echo, reverb, equalizer, fade-in/out, compression, etc. that come in handy, especially if you have your own music that needs remastering on the cheep like I do (about ten thousand cassettes that start life as massive .WAV files on the computer and need a "Lame" http://www.dors.de/razorlame/index.php utility to convert to MP3s or other formats. The software gets complicated and I keep it as simple and cheep as I can because I hates software! Alas, my scaled down programs help me do my thing. Letting some auto-bot categorize my preious MP3s is a non-starter and would keep me awake nights. I just have to take the time to "prune" stuff every now and then, deciding where songs should live when they end up in the "to-do" folder.

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Hi Publius!

[Publius]

Hey, M-L.

(HUGS)

You sneaked in and out last night.

I'm posting 1985 in trickles today because there's a movie on pay cable I want to see tonight.

How's it going? Temperatures still warm?

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Cry Me A River
~ Julie London ~

Cry Me A River
~ Ella Fitzgerald ~

Cry Me a River
~ Etta James ~

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Cry Me A River
~ Missy Higgins ~

Cry Me A River
~ Imelda May with Jeff Beck ~

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Cry Me A River
~ Aerosmith ~

Cry Me A River
~ Joe Cocker ~

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I got so tired last night that I went to bed early...now I have some catching up to do.

I played All of Hanon 1 & 2 to work out my wrists.

Everybody HATES Hanon. I love him! :-) I have both books memorized so I can sit down anywhere and play it through (Takes about 50 minutes to an hour)

[Publius]

I hated Hanon too. It may be necessary, but it’s not fun.

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Because The Night
~ Patti Smyth Group ~

Because The Night
~ 10,000 Maniacs ~

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I know I am SUPPOSED to hate him...but it just somehow fascinates and appeals to me! LOL!

Some people hate Hanon but Love Czerny.

I hate Czerny! hahahahaha!

[Repeal The 17th]

Thank you, and may God bless you all.
R17

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Are those Method books for piano? For drummers I suppose it’s like hating Haskall W. Harr, but loving Chs. Wilcoxen, or hating Podemski and loving Goldenberg. I teach with all of them, but notice that my unspoken bias still rubs off on students somehow.

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Gloria
~ Them Featuring Van Morrison ~

Gloria
~ Shadows Of Knight ~

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Gloria
~ Bon Scott & The Spektors ~

Gloria
~ Popa Chubby ~

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Yes. Of the two, Hanon is closer to the rudiments of drumming than Czerny.

It is a series of exercises that reproduce patterns up and down the keyboard in both hands parallel, by modes, first up the keyboard to work the right hand, and then down the keyboard to work the left hand.

The first book has twenty exercises of 28-30 measures long, and the second book is harder, with all the scales at the end.

I have not attempted the third book, as it is beyond me! Maybe I should try it as a challenge! Right after I teach myself Mandarin Chinese.

Czerny is more like music based on Western Scales. I like the ancient modes, which is probably why Hanon appeals to me!

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: FEBRUARY 28, 1985

#22 – Phil Collins: “One More Night”

One of the most haunting songs of the era, beautiful and understated.

Phil Collins: “One More Night”

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Hanon seems (to me, anyway!) to be the fastest way to get dexterity back after a long lazy period of not practicing, or an injury, or a vacation.

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The Seventh Son
~ Willie Dixon ~

The Seventh Son
~ Johnny Rivers ~

The Seventh Son
~ John Hammond ~

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Ah, so I did read the context correct.

In drumming, both Haskall Harr and Wilcoxen are rudimental method books, that accomplish basically the same thing, but Harr is stuffy/strict military style no matter how you “interpret” it and Charlie Wilcoxen just swings on it’s own (even while marching down the street).

Benjamin Podemski and Morris Goldenberg are the ancient, accepted, standard “classical” snare drum methods circa 1955 and still SOP (why reinvent the wheel?), but to me Podemski is like doing math drills and Morris’ (often pronounced “Maurice” like Stevie Miller’s Space Cowboy) “Modern School for Snare Drum and Guide Book for the Artist Percussionist”, has charm and substance while getting the job done.