Well, we got to see the eclipse, but now, severe storms.
Win some....

@th3j35t3r A lot more gets made out of whether, or how well, someone reads or not, than the knowledge that really counts. More likely than not he knows the name of every note on the fingerboard, how chord and key relationships work at a practical level, and how to play in a variety of meters. Lots of people can cook from scratch, too. Written music is essentially a recipe.

So, April is here, and everyone in red is not being paid. If you think that's right, you're in love with the business, not the music.

It's another Bandcamp Friday - the best day to reach out a get some music you can hold, with extra icing for your favorite creators. It doesn't have to be me, but go find something to pick up today and show some love to a musician Spotify pretends doesn't matter!
(if it is me, here's a link: theislen.bandcamp.com ) #BandcampFriday #music

"As long as we create technology primarily to extract resources and annihilate each other, the belief that technology will come to our rescue and help us solve our existential crises is a product of a highly delusional thought process."
-Geo. Tsakraklides

Welp, Robert Fripp wins April Fool's for this year (who'd a thunk?).

(All-time trophy still belongs to Moog....)

#CoSoMusic
https://youtu.be/bnKl-o13AQU

@InUnfunky have worked with drummers ranging from telepathically locked to having to use the neck of my bass as a baton. A little humility holding the sticks helps! (Said the guy with a timpani gig tonight)

You see interviews with drummers, etc., saying "I never knew the words, I don't know what so and so was doing....," then you see videos of The Who back in the live heyday and Moon is singing along! It starts to dawn how they were able to pull off the insane level of group improvisation...
Take heed, young 'uns....
#music

So, Lucian Grainge now owns 99% of Daniel Ek's gonads.
If you haven't dumped Spotify yet.....

PayPal is apparently staffed exclusively by loonburgers and idiots.

@tgraph52 Perfect for opening the show with a cover of "Codeine."

@tgraph52 He's also a major shareholder in Tx Goobernor Greg Abbott. How hard are the Rs willing go with their moneymen to look tough to the base?

Okay, musicians, I'm fine with some variation in nomenclature when it comes to harmony, it's just a fact of functional (sorry) musical life.
One exception:

Keys have tonics, chords have roots, ok?

Trying to keep my students from going completely crosseyed....
#music

@CanisPundit But I will add that PPs "customer service" is horrid.

@CanisPundit Monday, unknown.
Tuesday, Epson.
Wednesday, a gamer app neither of us has ever used (wife's card on joint account - not trolling bank because they were instantly on top of it, never cleared the charge, but I had to confirm and now wait for new card) and Consumer Cellular.

The week so far: Monday, Paypal fraud. Tuesday, printer goes down, have to order what it needs overnight 'cause no one stocks it. Today, fraud on wife's debit card, phone account changed without authorization ("Oh, that's a system update," yeah, and it would have cost me a bundle if I hadn't caught it...) Needless to say, way behind on what I'd planned to do....

@MLClark At this juncture in the narrative, I'll take Bobby McFerrin's version...

@grayman

oooohhhh....
okay, you all know that's not what theory is, you don't need me to point it out...........
but, man, students come in with that idea fixed in their heads, and, oy, the crowbars required.....