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Offline phbrown

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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39200 on: May 06, 2013, 11:11:23 PM »
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!

i am proud of you. Making a big change like that is so Big someone people get too scared to even try!

GO NESSA GO!!
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« Reply #39201 on: May 07, 2013, 07:10:45 AM »
Quote from: nessalynn77 on May 06, 2013, 10:58:13 PM
Hey y'all (from South San Francisco!)... Man, I got moved and settled in this past weekend... miss (Reno) home quite a bit still... but MAN this is an amazing place!  I am really loving it already.

Praise the Lord!!
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39202 on: May 07, 2013, 08:23:08 AM »
Quote from: nessalynn77 on May 06, 2013, 10:58:13 PM
Hey y'all (from South San Francisco!)... Man, I got moved and settled in this past weekend... miss (Reno) home quite a bit still... but MAN this is an amazing place!  I am really loving it already.

Outstanding, sis!!!
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39203 on: May 07, 2013, 04:16:34 PM »
Quote from: nessalynn77 on May 06, 2013, 10:58:13 PM
Hey y'all (from South San Francisco!)... Man, I got moved and settled in this past weekend... miss (Reno) home quite a bit still... but MAN this is an amazing place!  I am really loving it already.
Awesome!  Congrats!
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39204 on: May 07, 2013, 06:51:08 PM »
Quote from: SketchMan3 on May 07, 2013, 04:55:24 PM
CS: Feeling a bit fuzzy because some of my extended family actually dropped by to sing me happy birthday instead of just calling. I just gave away one of my old treasured skateboard decks to a younger cousin. Good times.

Well Happy Birthday Amigo.  May the Lord bless you with many more to come.
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39205 on: May 08, 2013, 12:24:46 PM »
Quote from: SketchMan3 on May 07, 2013, 04:55:24 PM
CS: Feeling a bit fuzzy because some of my extended family actually dropped by to sing me happy birthday instead of just calling. I just gave away one of my old treasured skateboard decks to a younger cousin. Good times.
I'm not much of a singer, and don't know where you live, so I'll just say it here: Happy Birth Anniversary!!!
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« Reply #39206 on: May 08, 2013, 11:54:03 PM »
Quote from: SketchMan3 on May 07, 2013, 04:55:24 PM
CS: Feeling a bit fuzzy because some of my extended family actually dropped by to sing me happy birthday instead of just calling. I just gave away one of my old treasured skateboard decks to a younger cousin. Good times.


Dang a day late and a dollar short

Happy Belated birthday
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39207 on: May 09, 2013, 09:30:25 AM »
Sorry I missed the party. But happy belated birthday.  :D

Feeling a bit frustrated. Learning piano is like growing up, the more you learn, the more you realize that you DON'T know much.   :(
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« Reply #39208 on: May 09, 2013, 12:37:32 PM »
Quote from: lorettac on May 09, 2013, 09:30:25 AM

Feeling a bit frustrated. Learning piano is like growing up, the more you learn, the more you realize that you DON'T know much.   :(

And that makes it all the more fun! Hang in there!
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« Reply #39209 on: May 09, 2013, 10:05:43 PM »
Quote from: lorettac on May 09, 2013, 09:30:25 AM
Sorry I missed the party. But happy belated birthday.  :D

Feeling a bit frustrated. Learning piano is like growing up, the more you learn, the more you realize that you DON'T know much.   :(

ahh but eventually you realize you know more today than you did yesterday

Keep going Lorettac!!!!!!
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« Reply #39210 on: May 12, 2013, 11:10:31 AM »
Thank you blyempowered. You're right. When I look back, I know how it made me feel every time I crossed a hurdle and I felt like I did something so great. lol It just feels like it's been too long since I've been able to cross another hurdle.

Thank you phbrown. You're right too. I'm proud of myself for learning what I have and I feel like I have come a long way. I know every scale, I know the major triads, minor triads, I understand 7ths (just trying to get them ingrained in my brain), I understand the number system, I hace accumulated a lot of traditional hymns that use the number chords so I can play them in any key. The problem is, I don't know how to transition from just hitting the chords on the beat, to making it sound like I'm playing the piano. I've been searching for the answer, everything I try just sounds like a childrens song or like Pat Boone, or worse. I know I'll get there one day, just gotta find the road that gets there first.  ;)
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39211 on: May 12, 2013, 05:25:33 PM »
Missing this site... ;D
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39212 on: May 12, 2013, 11:20:18 PM »
Quote from: Fenix on May 12, 2013, 05:25:33 PM
Missing this site... ;D


You, this site misses

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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39213 on: May 13, 2013, 09:16:32 AM »
Quote from: phbrown on May 12, 2013, 11:20:18 PM
You, this site misses


Misses hairy ears? ;D
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39214 on: May 13, 2013, 04:12:57 PM »
Quote from: lorettac on May 12, 2013, 11:10:31 AM
The problem is, I don't know how to transition from just hitting the chords on the beat, to making it sound like I'm playing the piano. I've been searching for the answer, everything I try just sounds like a childrens song or like Pat Boone, or worse. I know I'll get there one day, just gotta find the road that gets there first.  ;)

The "road" that got me there was mostly due to studying classical music. I mean literally, getting the sheet music and studying what the composers were doing. A lot of the fill-ins that piano players are nothing more than scales (or parts of scales), chord arpeggios, and imitations of singers.

It's hard to really teach fill-ins in a systematic way because they are mostly learned through observation and imitation. Even tutorials won't show you every little note that is being played because by the time it's been played, most of em have forgotten it and moved to the next idea.
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39215 on: May 13, 2013, 05:28:33 PM »
try arpeggiating your chords, and changing the chord inversion.
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39216 on: May 13, 2013, 07:15:08 PM »
When I play by myself I mix in the Pat Boone style with gospel for testimony service.  :)
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39217 on: May 16, 2013, 12:06:20 PM »
Thanks everyone for the advice and encouragement. I'm back to digging in again to move up to that level.

Quote from: T-Block on May 13, 2013, 04:12:57 PM

It's hard to really teach fill-ins in a systematic way because they are mostly learned through observation and imitation. Even tutorials won't show you every little note that is being played because by the time it's been played, most of em have forgotten it and moved to the next idea.


You are so right T-Block. I don't really have anyone to observe, but I'm finding a lot of stuff on Youtube and instead of just watching tutorials for fill ins, I'm trying to watch just to watch, not for getting chords but watching for style. My "adopted" daughter was over yesterday. She plays by ear beautifully! She has no clue what she is doing. She doesn't know the difference between an Em and a Emaj. I was able to teach her some theory and give her charts, but when she played and I asked her to do a run over again, she couldn't because she just didn't know what she did. I know it can't be taught, but it's tough when you're just on your own. That's why I joined this awesome place.  ;D
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39218 on: May 16, 2013, 12:09:28 PM »
Quote from: THE WOLFMAN on May 13, 2013, 05:28:33 PM
try arpeggiating your chords, and changing the chord inversion.

Thank you wolfman. My arpeggios don't sound right. I'll just keep working on that.  ;)

Quote from: Mysteryman on May 13, 2013, 07:15:08 PM
When I play by myself I mix in the Pat Boone style with gospel for testimony service.  :)

Hmmm.... very interesting. Maybe I'll try "gospelizing" my Pat Boone style and get a good mix.  :D
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Re: Current Status Thread!
« Reply #39219 on: May 20, 2013, 04:48:00 AM »
Still playing with my new Samsung galaxy S3.

I may NEVER go back to BlackBerry...EVER!!!!
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