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Chuck Berry in the next quarterly recital FTW!

Cathy

Well, how about a recital in 2015 or 2020 then?

Peter... I vote for Joe Cocker, but only if you sing too.

Arrgg, all my agony last recital about tuning my piano - it's still not tuned and worse than before.

It's been a rough year, and I wanna do something to mark it. I just hope to find the motivation to finish and mark this year while finding the motivation to at least tune this piano.

As an adult beginner, it's sometimes easy to feel like a fish hauled up flopping on the deck - it's sometimes harder to take those tiny fins and take over the boat and go where you want to.

"Flounder" around, sort of...something to "carp" about...and always having to "tuna' the piano...makes one want to jump the "shark'...

When is the next recital?

November 15. It'll be open for submissions on Nov 1 -

Cathy

Too soon!

Hey, I don't mean to get crabby about your post, but whaling about puns is my forte.

Holy mackerel, I don't want to drum up treble, but these fish puns are seriously influencing my bass playing.

For the halibut, I'll scale back and not try to sound so crappie.

Well, Ben, if you angling for compliments I guess you'll just have wait with baited breath till FRYday the 15th.

(This is why I love you guys!)

I see we'd clamor for more puns in this group[er]. Glad to hear that salmon Ben will both be participating.

Just exactly how does one "play a bass" - does one beat it, pluck it or blow into it? And alive or dead? And how is this notated - on the bass clef? That's the bass clef and not the bass clef...

(Edited to add that I too was tempted to use some play on "bass", but considered it too much of a stretch, far too weak and desperate, and so didn't fall for it hook, line & sinker like some other "suckers" )

You don't play it, TJ, you press the button!!

Thank goodness there's still a few weeks to go! I tried recording the Chopin Raindrop Prelude last weekend, and on the playback, all I could hear was the THUNK, THUNK, THUNK of that repeated A flat in the left hand. Argh! Back to the drawing board, with some hints and exercises from my teacher. Hope to make some progress over the next week.

(BTW, I'm hoping if I ignore all the puns, they'll just quietly go away. )

You meant to say swim away ...

Joe Cocker, please! He's got great songs and versions. I'm quite fond of "noisy" late 60's and early 70's, much to the amusement of my friends.

I... see we'd... CLAMor for more puns in this group[er]. Glad to hear that salmon Ben will both be participating.

Eel be quiet as clams. Time to stop harpooning on it and find something else to octopi our time.

MaryBee's carping about the puns, but cod she just being koi?

Didn't quite happen.

The melody is not rising as I would like and I still have a section that is quite weak in comparison to the rest. It tends to get very muddy, quickly.

It was revealing.

The good news is ... all my equipment is set up to keep trying through the week. This recording exercise is a very good discipline ... I wouldn't otherwise be nearly so fussy, and likely would moved on long ago.