jafxi ([info]jafxi) wrote,
@ 2006-01-12 19:18:00
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Current music:Taxman - The Beatles

Power Chords and World Conquest


From Russia, with love.


This is a picture of Ashley's cat Louie who happens to be a portly Russian Communist dude. Yee-Haw. This photo has not been altered in any way shape or form. (photoshop 9.0-CS2)



A note about guitars and public places... If you're going to play power chords over and over on your cheap instrument in front of everyone else, at least tune the fucker first. I mean, really. If you or any of your friends play an instrument in public places... tune it or die. If you say, happened to play cello in a public school orchestra and quit (not like I know anyone like that) then sit there and watch as your friends sound crappy (let's say the low E is in between F natural and E natural, and the high E is an F natural) you need to learn to do the right thing. In the end I just ask one thing... Do your best so that you and your friends are in tune. For the children. Oh god... It was terrible.... I'd also like to point out that four people should know more than five chords between all of them. uhh... tuna.


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[info]columbine1818
2006-01-13 12:39 am UTC (link)
The rifle needs to be fixed up. The strap looks funny.

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[info]jafxi
2006-01-13 02:25 am UTC (link)
It's not because of how I edited the image, the orignal image of the coat/rifle was of a toy soldier.

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[info]columbine1818
2006-01-13 09:59 pm UTC (link)
I see.

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[info]akamila3691
2006-01-13 02:17 am UTC (link)
this makes me laugh.

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[info]jafxi
2006-01-13 02:26 am UTC (link)
The Guitar thing, the portly russian cat thing, or both?

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[info]akamila3691
2006-01-13 02:31 am UTC (link)
well mostly the guitar thing.
but most of the time i just like watching them fail.
sorry that it created you pain. =D
it was quite funny though, because after you guys were all like "tune itttt!"
he was like..
"it is in tune."

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[info]jafxi
2006-01-13 02:33 am UTC (link)
Heh, I like how people believe that they can hear pitch so well when they jsut can't

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[info]solaris102
2006-01-13 02:35 am UTC (link)
And I like how most of the time, those people are in choir and have had no actual experience with music.

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[info]jafxi
2006-01-13 02:44 am UTC (link)
I like how people in lower choir classes are all like "OMG! we have to read music now!" We learned to do it that well in the fifth grade. A lot of us can read a couple different clefs fluently. Those of us who take private lessons actually develop the ability to generate a correct pitch without a source of reference. uhh... Orchestra rocks.

I hate people who play fretted or keyed instruments. Come on. If it's in tune, and you know the general location of the note, you're in tune. If you're playing a real stringed instrument [one that supports vibrato/has no frets] you actually have to (big shock here) find the note on your own.

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[info]suspect_device1
2006-01-14 07:13 pm UTC (link)


You dick. Why don't you go build a time machine.

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[info]jafxi
2006-01-14 08:23 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I probably should. Perhaps after-wards I will alter your early life so you have something better to do. How bored do you have to get to go out of your way to make an angry comment on my live-journal?

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[info]goatsed_faggot2
2006-01-15 09:11 am UTC (link)
he's not bored, it's about your bullshit superiority complex over people who play "fretted or keyed instruments". why do you sir, get to decide what is "a real stringed instrument" or not? that electric bass in the picture has no frets, is it "a real stringed instrument" now? but any bass that does have frets isn't? it takes just as much talent and dedication to play a fretted or keyed instrument as it does for an orchestra or band instrument, which was not directly stated in your postings, but is certainly implied. maybe next time you should think before making such statements.

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[info]jafxi
2006-01-15 02:57 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps you misunderstand... I do appreciate guitars, and that was mostly a joke... My cousin for instance has been playing guitar in the classical realm for nearly 11 years now, one of my friends who I record with has been playing rock guitar/bass for almost 24 years now. I just any person who is going to play an instrument of any sort in the public should at least go out of their way to tune it properly. Though frets do make it easier, and deny a musician some techniques they could not achieve without them, there are also things which make frets useful. I see frets as training wheels to making music in a more true and productive manor. Let's be honest now. Let's say we have two musicians, one with an upright bass, and one with a fretted electric bass. Assuming both instruments are in tune, and both musicians want to hit a certain note, which one does more work? The musician playing the electric fretted bass needs to know the fret or the general location of that note, while the musician with the upright bass must know the exact location of the note, or slide to it from the estimated position (which produces that sometimes unwanted glissando sound.) I have also been researching bluegrass banjo for the past year, which as you know is a fretted instrument. After I got past it's non logical tuning (the strings are not sequentially tuned,) and the different plucking methods, I noticed that I didn't have to work nearly as hard as I did on the cello. I also researched guitar for a short while, and reached a similar result. The frets are not worth the trouble to me. When you try to use vibrato behind a fret, the fret completely dampens the sound, and when you try to use vibrato on top of the fret (as was suggested to me by my teacher at the time) you face hitting the next half step, and losing your note completely. It does take talent and dedication to play a fretted instrument. If you payed any attention while reading my post, you probably would have noticed that my implied insults where not directed towards people who use fretted instruments, but a specific group of people who play them, and do it badly at that. The very fact that I suggest that these people need improvement suggests there isn't something wrong with these instruments or fields of study, but with the particular musicians themselves. Maybe next time you'll think before you make "such statements."

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[info]jafxi
2006-01-16 12:26 am UTC (link)
Also, while I'm building my time machine, you can learn how to discern one note from another.

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[info]solaris102
2006-01-16 12:42 am UTC (link)
Hey, I like how that's not actually you, making whatever point you were trying to make seem invalid. Sure it can be done, but you can't actually do it, so that's a weak argument.

Best of all, how you missed the point of his post entirely. Good job with that.

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