AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 684) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | December 5, 2002 | All of Us

[JRandomFreeper]

I am worthless and weak.

I remain full of doubt about that. ;>)

I also studied french from 1st though 6th and then 10-12 in high school.

Latin was 7th and 8th, boys only, taught by the headmaster. That was the most valuable class I ever had. Latin is the root of the romance languages, and a large part of American english.

And the key to science. When I hear meso, I think middle. When I hear phylic, I think heat. So mesophylic bacteria are those that like the middle range. (about 105F). Lacto makes me think of milk. Bacillus is pretty obvious to most english speakers. Hence, my ability to remember mesophylic lactobacillus. Not to be confused with acidophilus, which would be a philus or friend of acid.

In my next life, I shall study languages, for they are rich in life and history. ;>)

/john

[MozartLover]

Do you see the word "View" at the top of your screen? If so, click on it; then if you see the phrase "address bar" pop up, click on that. That should work. If you have Explorer, that is.:)

[MozartLover]

Actually, after clicking on "view", you run your cursor over "Toolbars" and THEN click on "address bar".

[JRandomFreeper]

According to Trill (I am not a geek anymore), go to View, then Toolbars, and then select Address Bar. This should get it back. If not, post again and I'll try to help.

/john

[Common Tator]

Music is a language.

Requiring written music to play is like requiring written words to speak.

My family has always played music. When a child reaches 3 years old, he or she is given a Uke and taught a simple song or two. A three year olds hands fit a Uke and the gut strings are easy on little fingers.

As the years go by we transition to other instruments. Only after we learn to play do we learn to read music. Think of how hard it would be if a child had to learn to read before it could learn to talk. Yet that is what we do with music education.

The key is to learn to hear the chords and rhythms of a song. With 4 cords you can do simple songs. Our system was when we did not know how to make the chord in a song we would find the sheet music. Play the notes on the piano and then transfer them to the other instruments. Most of the time we just asked a brother sister or cousin how do you make that sound(chord) on the instrument we were playing. Once you know the chord the melody is simple. The melody note is mostly hiding in the chord as one of the notes in the chord. There are transition notes that take a song from one chord to another.

Songs are easier to remember than written words. Once you learn to "hear" the chords and "hear" the melody, playing any song is as easy as saying "repeat after me". We all can hear the sounds that make music. All you have to master is how to make those sounds on your instrument. Later you can learn to write those sounds down so others can read them or play what other have written on paper.

From 1963 until 1997 I never played music with my cousins. I lived hundreds of miles away. They play every Tuesday evening. Mrs tator and I joined the group after we moved back home in 1997. It was the first time I had played with my cousins since 1963. Mrs tator, the piano teacher, was astounded that I was able to sit down and play songs with them. My cousin Joe and I even did some Bob Wills western swing twin guitar circa 1950 style.

My cousin Mary composes songs. After that session she asked her brother Joe to listen and give her some ideas for fixing spots on a new song she was writing. She played it on the piano by ear, and he played the bass. Mrs Tator could not believe he could play a song he had never heard before. So Joe handed me his bass sat down at the drums. When I played bass with no errors on a song my wife knew I had never heard, she was shocked.

The key to that is understanding transition notes that take the tune from one primary chord to another. When you master that you can play songs you have never heard before. Later on you will learn the transition notes can be played as chords too.

When children learn to read they are learning how to read words they already know. Music is even easier. Most of the music you read, you already know not only the notes but the composition as well. Reading music after learning to hear it, is like reading a poem you have already comitted to memory.

[Neets]

Thanks UG...I took some nyquil earlier and now I am up, wide awake..hehehe..just checking in to see what's going on before I try to go back to sleep.

My car is snowed in...we got a lot of snow for only expecting 3 inches...

[Neets]

There was some White House Historian or something er other on Fox earlier tonite. I thought I heard him saying something about the term "Holiday Tree" being used in lieu of "Christmas Tree", only during the past 12 years...you could see he was clearly biting his tongue to try to NOT reference x42's reign...then I noticed as the tree lighting ceremony began, the term "Christmas Tree" being used by President Bush.

[Utah Girl]

Word sucks. Can I say it louder? WORD SUCKS. I write everything in WordPerfect. I only graduated to version 8 because of the 8-digit DOS limitation on file names in the older versions. Still, I tune my keyboard to WordPerfect 6.1. I don't need all the new stuff, and with the old style I don't need to touch the *&*(&$#(#*& mouse. I can do everything with the keyboard.

Thanks for your comments! I am a former WordPerfect employee, and it warms my heart to hear those comments. It is really to bad what happened to the company, Word stinks, and isn't even at WP 5.1 level YET.

[Iowa Granny]

That doesn't do the trick.

I am going into the history icon, and sneaking in thru the backdoor to the sites I need to access.

I will wait until morning before I attempt any additional stuff. I screwed up the opening page badly.

Can anyone here imagine How Deep the Pile of Meadow Muffins would be that he'd throw me into if I went into HIS OFFICE and compromised his computer? I believe there is a diamond bracelet in my immediate future.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm still a WordStar fan. Ctrl-k Ctrl-d. On a CPM system. I have to admit that output of either WP or Word is better than WS on a dot-matrix printer, but if you have to punch in a bunch of stuff, WS was the way to go.

/john

[JRandomFreeper]

I believe there is a diamond bracelet in my immediate future.

I would settle, were I in that position. You would get your bracelet, and I would never touch your computer again. Wait.... I've done that. Grin!

/john

[Utah Girl]

I think what your husband did was hide the toolbars. To the left at the top of the Explorer browser screen, you'll see File | Edit | View, etc. There might be a line like this: | to the far left, click on it and see if the URL box reappears. In the older versions of the browsers if you clicked in a certain area near the top left hand corner of the screen, things would start disappearing. I hope that helps.

[Utah Girl]

I'm going back and forth on the job idea. It would be a transfer, so I would keep my seniority. I need a change of pace, but do I really want Joe Lieberman to be my Senator?

[JRandomFreeper]

That was going to be my response if she was using Netscrape. I suppose, if I were a geek, and a tester, I would have asked the version of Exploder and OS that she was using, and tried to duplicate the problem.

But I'm just a cook. grin!

/john

[MozartLover]

"Think of how hard it would be if a child had to learn to read before it could learn to talk. Yet that is what we do with music education. "

Everyone's brain is wired differently. For me reading music came naturally; I was reading music at a very young age, long before I was reading words. The magic for me was transforming the little black dots on the page into pretty sounds my fingers could make on the keys. Playing by ear came much later.

There's really no "right or wrong" way to learn music. It just depends on how your brain works. Paul McCartney is a multi-bijillionaire and doesn't read music. OTOH, being able to get together with a flutist you've never met, put the sheet music for Mozart's Concerto in G Major on your respective music stands, and play it together beautifully & perfectly on the first try is an incredibly satisfying experience........and a whole lot of fun.

[MozartLover]

"But I'm just a cook. grin!"

You are toooooooooo cute.:^)

I'm going to call it a night. 14 angels to the cook and erstwhile geek.:)

[nicollo]

After our Thanksgiving dinner, my neice performed a little recital for us on the violin. I can't remember the piece. It was a difficult composition, something she's been working on for a while. It was horrid, her performance. She had the mechanics down perfectly. Her tempo was exact. And she didn't play music. I didn't understand it until we were talking about it on our way home later that night. I realized that she has no ear.

So right you are, CT: she was taught to read music before she learned to listen.

Ben Franklin thought that children should learn Greek and Latin before they learn other languages. He explained that to learn French, for example, before learning Latin was like jumping to the top of a stairs, then walking down. He said it was probably easier to go down those stairs, but it was much harder to get up them.

John, language is humanity. It defines us, it makes our thoughts. It empowers just as it limits. To harness it is to liberate yourself. You are blessed to have your education.

I went through all the college-cr*p about language in anthropology courses. At first I thought it was neat stuff. But I learned that they didn't get it. They fell into the relativist trap that one thing leads to another. And too bad the English Dept's don't get it either.

Language is song. While they teach us to understand it, and maybe even sing along, the don't teach us to listen to it, to hear it, to feel it. Those who can can fly.

[JRandomFreeper]

but do I really want Joe Lieberman to be my Senator?

Tough call (NOT!).

I wouldn't be able to go for the weapons ban that Conn has. Too much danger for this able military guy. I require the ability to protect myself.

/john

[nicollo]

YOU WORKED WITH WORDPERFECT? God love Wordperfect!

Give me your feet so that I may kiss them.

And I don't even mind all that Corel jungle, so long as I can get to my Wordperfect. You'd die if you saw my keyboard setup. (Watch out, though, I have a billion questions for you.)

[JRandomFreeper]

Thanks kiddo. But, I am just a cook. An unemployed one at that.

14 angels to you and yours also. And travel mercies for Em.

/john