I bought a thing

"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
10/24/2016 at 15:03 • Filed to: Musiclopnik, Keep Oppo Musical

But I need another thing or two. I also give points for inventive reuse of the Apple Cinema Display. More points if you know what piece of music is up and even more if you can play it.

I need to get a Z frame and a proper bench. Standing up to play isn’t the greatest idea, nor is playing with awful posture.

DISCUSSION (27)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
10/24/2016 at 15:09

Hammond or GTFAC. I keed, I know you’ve been needing a good ordinary keyboard. Also all the Atlanta area List-Of-Craig Hammonds have probably been snatched up by the Atlanta area guys who refurbish them and sell them for All The Money, so...

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/24/2016 at 15:10

Fuck Hammonds. Analog monosynths and divide-down string synths or GTFO.

Grindintosecond > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
10/24/2016 at 15:11

I know how to play the Stereo. It’s always in tune and the music is usually pre-arranged.

McMike > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
10/24/2016 at 15:17

Tone so thick, you don’t dare play more than one note at a time.

-Moog Rogue owner

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > McMike
10/24/2016 at 15:20

I have a Prodigy. It’s sick though and needs to go to the shop for a tune-up.

McMike > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
10/24/2016 at 15:22

That was the other one I was shopping for back in 2000-ish. First purchase I ever made from eBay.

CalzoneGolem > Grindintosecond
10/24/2016 at 15:23

Dude, I play the fuck out of my iPod. We should jam sometime.

ttyymmnn > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
10/24/2016 at 15:29

Need a closer look at the music.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > McMike
10/24/2016 at 15:30

I kind of regret not picking up an MG1 when I was living in Asheville for cheap. Picked my Prodigy up for $200 off the list of craigs with one oscilator down. Replaced an IC and it was good to go, but the scale’s way off at the moment. If I want to sample notes in it it sounds great, but it’s unplayable because it’s going to be badly out of tune within a key or two of the one you were pressing to tune it. I think my first ebay purchase was my Yamaha CS5, which is still one of my favorites. It’s way limited, but there’s no way to make it sound bad and it has the best noise generator I’ve ever heard. Pump in some PWM on the square waveform, mix in some noise, open the filter, and suddenly you’re Ethan Kath from Crystal Castles! I’m really in love with the current Korg offerings. If you can get over the mini keys or don’t mind plugging in a midi controller, their Odyssey and Monologue are phenomenal and their MS20's an MS20. I think MS20s are a bit overrated, but it does cool things you can’t do with anything else and is great for sub-bass because of the way the filters self-oscillate and how easy it is to tune that to the oscs. Also pretty great for drum sounds.

Benjamin Rolland > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/24/2016 at 15:31

Fuck keyboards in general. Rhodes or GTFO

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
10/24/2016 at 15:31

How do you feel about Mellotrons?

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/24/2016 at 15:32

I wish I could buy one for less than $25k.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Benjamin Rolland
10/24/2016 at 15:33

Rhodes has a keyboard. Do you mean MIDI modules or GTFO?

Benjamin Rolland > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
10/24/2016 at 15:39

I’m out of my wheelhouse, I’m just throwing words at shit and hoping it sticks. Since when is Rolland a name you’d associate with this sorta thing?

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Benjamin Rolland
10/24/2016 at 15:43

There’s no way I have three or four polysynths with “Roland” written on them.

7:07 > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
10/24/2016 at 16:21

I sight-read the tune and know the piece but can’t for the life of me remember the name or composer. It would take me an hour to find the sheet music too.

What is it?

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/24/2016 at 16:49

Pictured: A. Hammond (OTT #30 G)

Kinja'd!!!

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
10/24/2016 at 16:50

I’m partial to a two-manual Baldwin Model 5 myself...

Although the three-manual Rodgers we have in the church is quite nice as well.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > ttyymmnn
10/24/2016 at 16:52

Clementi Op. 36 No. 1 to be precise. Last thing I remember learning way back when...

https://musopen.org/sheetmusic/29243/muzio-clementi/6-sonatinas-op-36/

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > 7:07
10/24/2016 at 16:53

M. Clementi Op. 36 No. 1

Classic of piano students everywhere.

ttyymmnn > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
10/24/2016 at 16:55

My brother took piano lessons way back in the day. I know that piece well.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > ttyymmnn
10/24/2016 at 17:01

It’s excellent for learning fingering. Screw up your thumb rolls and you quickly find yourself running out of fingers to play notes.

ttyymmnn > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
10/24/2016 at 17:22

When I was an undergraduate music major, I had to pass a proficiency exam to get my degree. The exam was pretty easy, but I was also a terrible piano player. I was too busy practicing trumpet to worry about piano. I wish I had learned, though. In much the same way the computer keyboard is the fundamental instrument of business, the piano keyboard is the fundamental instrument music.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > ttyymmnn
10/24/2016 at 22:45

I’m being recruited by the parish organist to start studying the organ.

I’ve already been handed Marcel Dupré’s 79 Chorales (which is in turn a study arrangement of 79 Bach chorales) and told to start working.

I swear this is a quote from him: “You can drive a stick, right? Well, you are 70% of the way to being able to use the pedalboard on the organ, since you can operate your feet independently in a well-coordinated manner.”

ttyymmnn > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
10/24/2016 at 22:52

My father has a doctorate in organ performance. I spent my formative years as a trumpet player turning pages for his recitals and watching him play. What kills me is the idea of reading three lines of music. But, like any other high-order skill, it can be learned with time. I think that, at a certain level, the understanding of harmony means that one is almost playing on automatic pilot, at least for pieces that follow traditional harmonic progressions. Knowing where your foot (or hand, or finger) is going next without reading the music is half the battle. But I have enough trouble with just one line sometimes.

Good luck with it!

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
10/24/2016 at 23:17

Clementi Sonatina.

Not because I know my piano works, but because it’s transcribed for xylophone/marimba solo by Garwood Whaley, and so I end up teaching it to my percussionists every couple years or so.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
10/25/2016 at 11:26

I some point I need to print out Clementi’s Op. 42 on the office printer.

Well, it’s cheaper than buying a copy of it. Or given a copy, as in the case of the Dupre chorales.