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You have a friend whom is a classically trained pianist and she can jam? You are very fortunate. My wife plays piano but only if there are notes in front of her. If I say play C-Am-Dm-G7 I get the deer in the headlights look. I also knew a violinist whom plays with the Rochester Philharmonic and wanted to start jamming. She said she sometimes lands on the wrong note. I said when that happens heaven is a half step up or down. She was amazed that that worked.
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OK, maybe it's just me.
I apologize., sorry for the inconvenience.
/FWIW, on listening for the fourth time, I hear the timing being off between the played chords and the backing strat sound. That's all it was. They were close enough to make me think it was a glitch somehow at first. rharv, no need to apologize. You thought you heard something/did hear something and I didn't; all is well. And for sure my timing of the chords was definately off by some degree. PS> Do you know your inbox is full and no one can PM you?
https://soundcloud.com/user-646279677BiaB 2026 Windows For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.
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"Do you know your inbox is full and no one can PM you?" Thanks, not the first time. Wish there was a warning somehow from the site DrDan PMd me recently, it's his fault!  /Just kiddin' it's always my fault // fixed
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You have a friend whom is a classically trained pianist and she can jam? You are very fortunate. My wife plays piano but only if there are notes in front of her. If I say play C-Am-Dm-G7 I get the deer in the headlights look. I also knew a violinist whom plays with the Rochester Philharmonic and wanted to start jamming. She said she sometimes lands on the wrong note. I said when that happens heaven is a half step up or down. She was amazed that that worked. Yeah, many musicians need the notes 'in front of them', the ones that don't (yet still know how to use them) are really nice to find when jamming! Those are keepers
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You have a friend whom is a classically trained pianist and she can jam? You are very fortunate. My wife plays piano but only if there are notes in front of her. If I say play C-Am-Dm-G7 I get the deer in the headlights look. I also knew a violinist whom plays with the Rochester Philharmonic and wanted to start jamming. She said she sometimes lands on the wrong note. I said when that happens heaven is a half step up or down. She was amazed that that worked. This is funny and oh so common. I don't know who's brain is wired different, theirs or ours My description of what took place was actually a tad too kind. The truth was I said "OK, let's try bouncing back and forth from D major to G major. So it's 1-2-3-4, D-D-D-D-G-G-G-G etc." And so we needed to spend 15 minutes for her to get D-G-D-G . . . with me providing the groove on my bass. I then said let's just try vamping on D with the Pa5X providing the backing groove; she found that a bit easier. Then we slowly graduated to more complex chord progressions led by the keyboard factory grooves. To be sure the whole jam session was choppy but fun, and she slowly started getting it. She definately has keyboard chops but it was as if she was shackled by some kind of chain that prevented her inner-creativity from being released. And to be sure, I'd love to be able to fluently read sheet music but not at the expense of losing the ability to jam.
https://soundcloud.com/user-646279677BiaB 2026 Windows For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.
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Yeah, many musicians need the notes 'in front of them', the ones that don't (yet still know how to use them) are really nice to find when jamming!
Those are keepers Thanx for the compliment! Back in the 1960's I was one of the very few guitarist who could read music. That is how I got into my first wedding band. That band had horns and that forced me to learn those flat keys. Being able to read those dots and to improvise and jam came in very handy through the years. Also very profitable!
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This is funny and oh so common. I don't know who's brain is wired different, theirs or ours ............................. I know that my brain is wired differently than most guitarists. I can read those dots, improvise, and jam. However lately I'm not reading much, just jamming with BiaB. But back in the 1960's reading those dots got me into wedding bands, actually called combos back then, and sent me into my wedding bands. My fellow guitarists and other rock band musicians said I coped out. I laughed all the way to the bank, not only from playing in my wedding band but also teaching guitar and bass. I taught reading music first then how to jam; I'm old school when it comes to teaching music 
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That's not old school, that is the correct way to teach music.
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That's not old school, that is the correct way to teach music. I totally concur.
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I taught reading music first then how to jam; I'm old school when it comes to teaching music Old school sounds like good school to me
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It’s been about two months since the keyboard arrived, and we love it. So far we can confidently recommend it to anyone considering a high end model. A keyboardist friend who regularly drops by to jam knows more about its bells and whistles than I do, which has been a helpful bonus as we learn its capabilities together. Beyond the built in multi-style band, chord sequence capability, split keyboard function and the usual selection of bass guitar and bass synth voices, one feature has become quite useful for writing bass lines: a physical Octave +/- button. It shifts the entire keyboard up or down three octaves from the default; a full six octave range, so no longer is the bass voice confined to the low end of the keyboard. By moving the bass voice into the upper register, my right hand can play it comfortably while still sounding like a bass guitar, which makes experimenting and working-out bass lines much easier. Then of course I translate my bass line to my bass guitar. This same feature would also be great for players of sax, flute, or other instruments who prefer a particular hand position to work-out their lines: you can place any keyboard voice where it’s most comfortable for your hands. Absolutely cool stuff. There are so many goodies packed into this instrument that it will take me years to explore them all, a good problem to have
https://soundcloud.com/user-646279677BiaB 2026 Windows For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.
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