Just yesterday I came across an excellent video on youtube analyzing the development of Paul McCarntey's bass lines in the Beatles' songs.....and I realized I've never really seriously considered what makes for a good bass line
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Just yesterday I came across an excellent video on youtube analyzing the development of Paul McCarntey's bass lines in the Beatles' songs.....and I realized I've never really seriously considered what makes for a good bass line
Yeah no, a good bass line is absolutely essential to a good song (or good performance of a song) in my opinion. Not only that, but a good bass line that has a groove will make people want to dance to it. Take this cool calypso bass line (I’ve been practicing this one for the show). Also practicing palm muting on this, cause it sounds WAY better in this case. It just works so well cause it has a nice groove. I just wrote out the line isolated from the rest of the arrangement to make it less confusing. (Realized I could've beamed the dotted eighth notes, but whatever, it's fine for the sake of an example).
In swing (when playing a walking bass line), the most important thing is to play the notes legato (connected), or else there's no groove.
Another great bass line is off of Ray Barretto's version of Killer Joe, if you wanna check that out.
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On my mind is work. Back in the office tomorrow after a week off. Not looking forward to it.
But there you go. Got to pay the bills somehow I suppose.
But there you go. Got to pay the bills somehow I suppose.
A good bass line is something I love to hear, and is also something that you will find (hear) in many of the works of the Baroque era (and is one of the many reasons I love much of this music).
Absolutely!! Just proves that Baroque music inspired much of the modern stuff.
This reminds me of when I was waiting to board a flight last week, I didn't notice the gate change announcement because I was wearing headphones
-Mad to myself. At last, my luggage was successfully flown to Las Vegas, but I missed the plane.
Gonna get some burgers on the grill in a few minutes. I am seasoning them how I do steaks -togarashi rub and then glaze with unagi sauce. They should turn out spectacular
My family and I were on a transatlantic flight from DC to London in the middle of the winter. Apparently the de-icing system failed a third of the way across the ocean or so, and was considerable discussion about whether we had to divert to some Canadian airbase. In the the the end plane limped back to Newark, arriving at 1AM. The buses taking us to the hotels arrived at 2AM. Not a fun experience with toddlers in tow.
I also once pulled negative G's in a 727. I was a kid and we were flying near thunderstorms along the South Carolina coast. The plane dropped like a rock (microburst?) for about 10 seconds or so. All the adults were having sphincter moments, but as a kid I remember how cool it was to see objects seemingly levitate in the air. Somebody did fall and hurt their arm (enough for an ambulance on arrival in Florida), but otherwise it was OK but messy with all the drinks and food everywhere.
Now I loathe flying, not because of possible dangers in the air, but because of the lines and hassles at the airports. Ugh.
Yup! It's such a cumbersome process. It's never just board your plane and have a nice flight. It's always something.. lost luggage, unexpected delays/layovers, flight cancellations, etc.
However, I am grateful that I can get from Victoria BC to Halifax in one day, that is pretty awesome.
I don’t like anyone so I only fly Delta in seat 1A, use Sky Priority, the lounges, and pay the cart people to drive me to my gate.
Fair enough! It does make traveling faster, that is true. Don't think I could feasibly go to college out-of-state if airplanes didn't exist.
I left Thiokol, as a Senior Reliability Engineer on the Space Shuttle boosters, to go back to federal service, in '99. Took a 20% pay cut.
Job satisfaction skyrocketed. Vacation Time went from 5 days/year back to 30. Commute dropped from 75 minutes back to 10 (each way). National/Int'l travel bloomed.
And, here's the killer, within 2 years I was making more money than I ever thought possible.
If your financial burdens allow it, GO for what makes you happy. That opens so many other doors you weren't aware of.
I'm also just aware enough of your two job possibilities (SW developer/Security analyst) that, if you do a decent job in either, private industry will be knocking at your door in short order (I've seen it happen many times).
Recovering from minor surgeries yesterday. Basal cell carcinomas (carcinomae??). Nothing serious, just in difficult places like the corner of my nose just next to my eye, some also needing skin grafts, so they decided they would all be done under general anaesthetic. Not a problem, but the anaesthetic knocked me around a bit.
Hope you recover quickly! When I had my surgery last month, I also was under general anesthesia. The nurses had to carry me out to the recovery room, which was really weird. My mom was so sweet and put on Singers Unlimited the whole time (except now I will forever associate that music with coming off of anesthesia, soooo...) Then after the hour, or however long I was in the recovery room, I had to be carried out to the car. I wasn't fully myself till almost 24 hours after the procedure. Couldn't walk or talk at all for a day straight. Then came the week-long recovery, which was miserable, too.
So yeah, can't say surgery is the funnest experience...
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It didn't work!! Think I had a defective unit, cause it didn't work over USB-C at all. Plus, I felt like I was ripped off.
Oh, I'm fully recovered by now! But thank you!