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Post by ads on May 12, 2017 16:47:47 GMT -5
Free to a good home, 8 baby ducks, slightly hearing impaired.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2017 19:51:31 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 9:50:37 GMT -5
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Edit add: You needn't bother reading this if you are one of the members that actually knows something about music. The Pentatonic Scale is one of the extremely interesting things I came across when I began investigating for curiosity, a little more music theory than what I was given in childhood piano lessons and school band. It started with Cohen's "The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift" and I wanted to know what he was talking about.
After several false starts with books that assumed too much of me, I got a good beachhead with How Music Works subtitle The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond, by John Powell. It's a sort of Music Theory for the Compleat Idiot- amusingly written, and takes you in baby steps through the basic stuff into the really interesting stuff. The author is a physics PhD and has taught physics and music acoustics at universities in Britain and Sweden. He gives many examples in various genres that can be found on your computer. Recommended for anyone wondering, uninformedly, about the subject.
Turns out harmonies, scales, etc. are physics, illustrated by the waves produced by a plucked tight string. The human brain is pleased by frequencies whose different wave-lengths match evenly over a period of time. Those of odd fractions which remain permanently out of step, clash. The Pentatonic Scale is the 5 principal tones which accomplish this matching in the shortest time, and arose independently all over the world thousands of years ago. The 5 black keys on a piano in any given octave are a pentatonic scale. (makes me wonder about the origin of the band's name)
Though different cultures have made their music more variable and interesting by filling in with more tones, much music still makes heavy use of the pentatonic scale; most folk music, blues. Amazing Grace is entirely pentatonic.
I should stop now, though I could rattle on, before I try to paraphrase more of what I have learned, which the book mentioned above would surely explain better. I wish I had a keyboard to play with; I almost feel like I could compose a tune, with what I have learned about what makes music sound good, or interesting. Probably not, though- my imagination is too dependent on what I have heard before; I would likely just be stealing riffs unconsciously.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 8:04:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 23:40:03 GMT -5
This Viral Video is getting a million hits every few hours. Spoiler Alert - Obvious, but look at the video (from the beginning) before scrolling down. Aww, the "seal" is so cute! 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I didn't hear the "Ta Da, Ta Da" Jaws theme music until it first came a few inches from the little girl. Thank god she wasn't hurt and the guy dived in right after her. Even if I was her dad I wonder if I would have done anything in time (before the attack I mean). Would anybody else in this situation realize the danger enough to pull their daughter away in time? To me the "takeaway" is we tend to get to "go with the crowd". "Huge Wild Predator with Big Teeth 6 Inches From a Seal-sized Yummy Little Girl" (they eat smaller seals) probably did not come up in anyone's mind beforehand, I bet. Don I doubt if anyone was thinking . . .
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Post by rogeraphil on May 25, 2017 18:54:51 GMT -5
Great slight of hand !!!
Didn't know how to post the actual video here, so I just put up a link. This guy is really entertaining !!!
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Post by rogeraphil on May 26, 2017 13:26:50 GMT -5
Great sleight of hand !!!
Didn't know how to post the actual video here, so I just put up a link. This guy is really entertaining !!! Thank you for that, Alfred !!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2017 13:40:28 GMT -5
Gonna get those birds, get those birds, get birds... uh oh.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 13:18:56 GMT -5
Queue up 'Maniac' from Flashdance...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2017 8:49:31 GMT -5
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Post by Beachguy on Jun 29, 2017 10:47:40 GMT -5
Gonna get those birds, get those birds, get birds... uh oh. "" out of me yard you silly things ...go go go ..Yikes !!!!! mommy mommy i fall downs ""
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2017 17:24:42 GMT -5
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Post by jrchico on Jun 30, 2017 4:14:14 GMT -5
More hummingbirds.
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Post by pgantioch on Jul 1, 2017 20:16:15 GMT -5
Gonna get those birds, get those birds, get birds... uh oh. The little guy has a hitch in his giddy-up. Some sort of injury (I can't tell which leg...)?
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Post by pgantioch on Jul 2, 2017 8:25:50 GMT -5
The little guy has a hitch in his giddy-up. Some sort of injury (I can't tell which leg...)? Looks like he got dizzy and fell over from too much running in circles. As he's walking back to mom (& before?), his left knee bends but his right doesn't.
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