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Zak Claxton
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| Fyrm Fouroux wrote: | | How do you count 7/8? |
Old musician's secret: never count more than 4.
A 7/8 either goes 1,2,3,4; 1,2,3
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1,2,3; 1,2,3,4.
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Fyrm Fouroux
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Zak Claxton wrote: | | Fyrm Fouroux wrote: | | How do you count 7/8? |
Old musician's secret: never count more than 4.
A 7/8 either goes 1,2,3,4; 1,2,3
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1,2,3; 1,2,3,4. |
I agree with you 100%, Zak. And it thus leaves me somewhat underwhelmed about that interview
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Silas Scarborough
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| hexx wrote: | | Silas Scarborough wrote: | | Sorry I don't have the link just now but there's an interview with Vai on YouTube and he talks about his first or very early session with Zappa. It's very cool and the punchline will have you falling out of your chair laughing. Zappa was one amazing man and anyone who missed the "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar" tour missed one of the hardest-rockin' shows that ever came down the road. He absolutely blew the walls down!!!! |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cplMM3d_Q
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The video is plugging the Berklee School of Music but Zappa did not go there and, in fact, never really attended anywhere. He went to CCM (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) but dropped out after a relatively short time as he had more important things to do, like being Zappa. (It might be Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music. Who knows...everyone just called it CCM)
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Zak Claxton
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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I went to Berklee for a year. 
1985.
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Silas Scarborough
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Zak Claxton wrote: | I went to Berklee for a year.
1985. |
There's an interesting blurb on the Berklee web site from a professor of bass. He said he gets all kinds of bass players coming to him and when he first meets them they can do all the flashy stuff that he called 'music store jams' but what he aims to do is teach them how to do what bass players really do.
Education, in any field, is a mixed blessing as, unless you're an extremely strong-willed individual, it is almost impossible to learn something from someone else without also adopting, to some extent, that person's style. I don't mean to go too far with this.
Zak, if you don't mind my asking, why did you bail after a year? (None of yer damn bizness is a perfectly fine response
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Zak Claxton
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Silas Scarborough wrote: | | Zak, if you don't mind my asking, why did you bail after a year? (None of yer damn bizness is a perfectly fine response |
Ran outta money.
I ended up getting my bachelor's in music from a Cal State school that gave me great instruction and that (more importantly) I could afford. I got some help from the folks but also worked my way through.
But Berklee was a great environment, and I had a guitar in my hands 6-7 hours per day.
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Silas Scarborough
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Thanks. I don't know why Zappa dropped out of CCM but I bet if there's an answer on the Web somewhere then it'll be so cryptic that no-one will be able to decipher it.
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Silas Scarborough wrote: | | Thanks. I don't know why Zappa dropped out of CCM but I bet if there's an answer on the Web somewhere then it'll be so cryptic that no-one will be able to decipher it. |
*LOLz* you already gave the answer to that question yourself: "he had more important things to do, like being Zappa" - in all its cozmic simplicity, that is most likely spot on!
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Silas Scarborough
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| hexx wrote: | | Silas Scarborough wrote: | | Thanks. I don't know why Zappa dropped out of CCM but I bet if there's an answer on the Web somewhere then it'll be so cryptic that no-one will be able to decipher it. |
*LOLz* you already gave the answer to that question yourself: "he had more important things to do, like being Zappa" - in all its cozmic simplicity, that is most likely spot on! |
I'm sure you already know this but I'm not being cynical when I question the value of education, particularly in any artistic endeavour, and also, to some extent, concentrating overmuch on cover tunes as avoiding becoming one's teacher is quite a significant obstacle. I really am interested in Zappa's reasoning in dropping out of CCM but I suspect the answer is a lot less artsy-fartsy than I imagine. Like Zak, he prob'ly ran out of money
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