Reply to: Am I jealous or what?

[Churchill]

Yeah, when I write stuff for fruit machines I sometimes drop into discussing the theory of the piece I've written for them and they glaze over before the end of the first sentence. So it always descends into a Pythagorean tuning, hence general avoidance of A#, major chords for winning, minor chords for losing, and dominant 7ths all in 4/4 time (even though the machines generally have only three reels).

So Threaded, have you ever worked for IGT?

Think carefully before you answer.

[threaded]

Ok. Scordatura? Now that's a word I've not heard in a long time... a long time.

Yeah, when I write stuff for fruit machines I sometimes drop into discussing the theory of the piece I've written for them and they glaze over before the end of the first sentence. So it always descends into a Pythagorean tuning, hence general avoidance of A#, major chords for winning, minor chords for losing, and dominant 7ths all in 4/4 time (even though the machines generally have only three reels).

[hyperD]

Ok. Scordatura? Now that's a word I've not heard in a long time... a long time.

[threaded]

No no no - wasn't the boy/girl thing... it was the odd bum note on the fast riffs I picked up...nothing to take away from a stunning performance frankly. I believe it was a standard tuned guitar only looking at the fast riffs at the top of the neck but I can't be sure...

Like I was saying it is not possible to play that piece on a standard tuning without bending, and it appeared to me most bum notes were in the place the correct ones would be if the guitar was scordatura.

[hyperD]

I don't know what you object to, but my excuse is that I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl. I initially thought girl ... my other excuse is that the piece was IIRC originally written for violin and uses a deliberate mistuning so couldn't tell for some of the notes if he hit a bum one, or it was because the guitar appears to be in a standard tuning and has frets, but he does bend to some of the right ones so the juries out on that.

No no no - wasn't the boy/girl thing... it was the odd bum note on the fast riffs I picked up...nothing to take away from a stunning performance frankly. I believe it was a standard tuned guitar only looking at the fast riffs at the top of the neck but I can't be sure...

[Xenophon]

Are you all blind??? who cares about the guitar player

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I think I'm in love!

Good effort Goldie. Worthy of a post in the hallowed halls of 'test please delete'.

[Churchill]

I don't know what you object to, but my excuse is that I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl. I initially thought girl ... my other excuse is that the piece was IIRC originally written for violin and uses a deliberate mistuning so couldn't tell for some of the notes if he hit a bum one, or it was because the guitar appears to be in a standard tuning and has frets, but he does bend to some of the right ones so the juries out on that.

jury's
juries are(plural)

Fleetwood.

[threaded]

Threaded!!!!!!!

Have you been taking doublespeak notes from Patricia "You're fired!" Hewitt?!?!?!

Good find btw...

I don't know what you object to, but my excuse is that I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl. I initially thought girl ... my other excuse is that the piece was IIRC originally written for violin and uses a deliberate mistuning so couldn't tell for some of the notes if he hit a bum one, or it was because the guitar appears to be in a standard tuning and has frets, but he does bend to some of the right ones so the juries out on that.

[hyperD]

...when he/she makes mistakes they are generally musically correct mistakes...

Threaded!!!!!!!

Have you been taking doublespeak notes from Patricia "You're fired!" Hewitt?!?!?!

Good find btw...

[DaveB]

Try the classic OTT mumbo jumbo of the guitar duel from "Crossroads". Steve Vai vs The Karate Kid. The scene's about 10 minutes long.

You mean Steve Vai vs Steve Vai

[dang65]

Try the classic OTT mumbo jumbo of the guitar duel from "Crossroads". Steve Vai vs The Karate Kid. The scene's about 10 minutes long.

[threaded]

Well after a little digging I've found him, he's called JerryC, from Taiwan, and has his own website.

[Gold Dalek]

Are you all blind??? who cares about the guitar player

From the same page:


I think I'm in love!

[Churchill]

Steve Morse!

[Fleetwood]

Buckethead on "Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)" by Praxis.
Music at both its weirdest and most enjoyable.