"I'll Give You One Week To Learn It!"

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 8:06 am

Duane,

"Handed me material"? Duane, be serious! I doubt if she has reading abilities. A very strong and overpowering keyboardist maintains the scheduling of selections, timing and perceptibility, needed to get the job done. Duane the scenario reads as such: The steel player that she requested me to emulate, was in fact playing just a hundred or so notes packed into a 20 second break. It would be impossible to put that many notes on one sheet of paper. Therefore, I am not tempted. May I remind you though that I have some original arrangements of my own to keep me busily engaged in the enjoyment of playing steel. Please keep the "MASSBASH" scheduling date in mind. I've plenty to do getting set for that upcoming event.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 30 Sep 2010 8:18 am

What I was asking, Bill, is if she handed you a CD or something, but I guess the answer is no. I get you — she points to a guy tearing it up, and tells you to learn it, not being serious. Ehh...just let it go. She probably didn't realize you were this sensitive about it. Heck, what if she was reading this thread? She'd probably feel really bad. Just let it roll off your back like water off a duck.

Bill Hankey wrote:I doubt if she has reading abilities. She plunks a monotone bass guitar while seated and vocalizing.

That doesn't mean she can't read. You never know...

Bill Hankey wrote:It would be impossible to put that many notes on one sheet of paper.

No it wouldn't.

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 30 Sep 2010 8:56 am

Only 2 days to go. How's it coming along?

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 9:04 am

Negatives reduced

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 30 Sep 2010 9:17 am

What was the song, Bill?

100 notes in 20 seconds is 8th notes at 150 BPM. Not exactly a super-human feat - most players can handle that.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 9:32 am

b0b,

Honestly, to be perfectly honest, I couldn't name the song if my life depended on it. Her husband heard her coaching me to get with it. He may recall the song. I'm sure he will recall his wife egging me on. I'll give it a shot, the next time they show up in this vicinity. Sorry b0b.. I know it's a simple request. There is a chance that its title may be a song that didn't make the charts. I have a close friend who plays more advanced picking than what they were attempting to impress upon me.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 9:53 am

b0b,

Anyone would be remiss to not explain further that some notes are laid out for speed picking, while others dangle between the standard tuning. Getting up the speed without picking a wrong note, can be tricky. Especially if both A&B pedals are used throughout. I don't know if 195 BPM is considered up there in speed, if so I've been there.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 30 Sep 2010 10:28 am

Bill Hankey wrote:Duane,

I have taken note of your expert ability to formulate some lack of credibility in some of the things that I believe in. For example, I took note of your dropping the subject concerning C. Atkins, like so many others before you have done in the past. I do appreciate reading your statements that you feel, I'm sure, from reading your accounts, are the last words in correctness.

OH.
MY.
HELL.

How did you get all that from anything I said?!
"Dropping the subject concerning C. Atkins"?
"Statements that you feel...are the last word in correctness"?
"Expert ability to formulate some lack of credibility"?

No wonder someone says something simple like that woman did, and you go on for days about how she's out to get you. Do you have a persecution complex or something?

And what about Chet Atkins? What more needed to be said about him, and what on Earth does that have to do with my credibility?

Bill... I just don't know about you, buddy.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 10:39 am

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 30 Sep 2010 10:42 am

"I don't read enough to hurt my playing". Who would be the first to contest those words spoken by the great CHESTER ATKINS? He iterated those words that he told to a member of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra during an earlier telephone conversation.

Bill, wake up - it was a joke. I don't know if Chet Atkins was the wellspring from which it came, (it sounds more like a Homer and Jethro gag to me,) but musicians the world over have been using this line for decades.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 30 Sep 2010 10:50 am

Well what issues do you say I've gummed up on? Do you want me to just say, "Bill, I'm sorry. I was wrong about _______ and _______," just to make you feel better about who knows what? Forget it.

For crying out loud! You are acting so defensive and needy here, Bill...
Wait — what did I say that was snide?!

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 10:52 am

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 11:07 am

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 11:14 am

I think to myself, what a pity. I'm actually immune to anyone making silly statements. At my age, it wouldn't be wise to be bothered by belittling commentary. That is the truth of the matter.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 30 Sep 2010 11:17 am

Barry,

Bona fide examples in writings are requested. Nothing more

Bill, Is your example bona fide? Stop being ridiculous.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 30 Sep 2010 11:25 am

Oh Geeze...

I'm not even talking to anyone, am I? First I try to tell Bill to just let that woman's comment go, or ask for sheet music to shut her up, and all I get is textual abuse from him. I mean, nothing I'm even writing here is making it through to the other side, is it...

Okay Bill. I think I've given you enough attention for today. It's time for some alone-time for you. Goodbye!

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 30 Sep 2010 11:50 am

Bill email me the mp3 file and I'll trabscribe it into E9 tab for you and email it back before the deadline.

Joe Miraglia · Post by **Joe Miraglia** » 30 Sep 2010 12:20 pm

Bill Hankey wrote:Barry,

Bona fide examples in writings are requested. Nothing more!

Once again the use of a none English word and this topic keeps running. b0b remenber in one of my posts I used a none English word and you shut it down immediately.Your the boss

Joe

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 30 Sep 2010 12:41 pm

Joe, Is it "bona fide" you are referring to?
It is an English word. This is taken from an English dictionary:

bo·na fide
/ˈboʊnə ˌfaɪd, ˈbɒnə; ˈboʊnə ˈfaɪdi/ Show Spelled[boh-nuh fahyd, bon-uh; boh-nuh fahy-dee] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
2.
authentic; true: a bona fide sample of Lincoln's handwriting.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 30 Sep 2010 4:05 pm

Bent,

Thank you, my good man! You are a treasure in situations that require third parties to convince one or the other players that these crank calls can be settled by an arbiter elegantiarum, such as you. I appreciate your intervention that will hopefully serve as a wake-up call. I am 100% aware that b0b is always alert to spot check anyone who strays by stretching the rules. This thread has been very educating in not pressing issues too far. We're a big happy family here on this forum. I would be lost without it.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 1 Oct 2010 4:03 am

As the country song is written: "Easy come, easy go, I found out a-long time ago,"aint" no future in the past, broken hearts, and all that jazz... Who wrote that song? I'll try finding the author, maybe today. Readers could liken this thread to the little beagle that couldn't resist sniffing the slow moving porcupine. Little did the beagle realize that the quilled and sluggish tree dweller was blessed with a trait to dispense with the snappish trail seeker in two shakes of a lamb's tail. Speaking of tails, it is from there that the shocking blow of a lightning fast slap to the snout of the trail finder originated. The incapacitated and disillusioned hunter loses no time at that moment of truth, racing back to his master. The latest comments here on the web by truth seekers, bears similarities to the little beagle trotting across open fields to enter the wooded areas where fair game will be found. The pungent critic, like the one whom is addressed in this thread, will have a second chance to throw another curve ball. Thanks to all of you who have responded to the caustic comment made by a lady in red.

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 1 Oct 2010 4:53 am

Bill Hankey wrote:Thanks to all of you who have responded to the caustic comment made by a lady in red.

Are you referring to Tamara or Little Red Riding Hood? Oh! you mean the Smart A that give the ultimatum.

Joe Miraglia · Post by **Joe Miraglia** » 1 Oct 2010 5:18 am

Bent Romnes wrote:Joe, Is it "bona fide" you are referring to?
It is an English word. This is taken from an English dictionary:

bo·na fide
/ˈboʊnə ˌfaɪd, ˈbɒnə; ˈboʊnə ˈfaɪdi/ Show Spelled[boh-nuh fahyd, bon-uh; boh-nuh fahy-dee] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
2.
authentic; true: a bona fide sample of Lincoln's handwriting.

I read it wrong, sorry.
It is a Latin derivative like many English words. Joe

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 1 Oct 2010 5:43 am

Joe, no biggie...well it didn't qualify for 3 red faces anyway! You are correct that it likely is a Latin derivative that has been English-fied(?) thorough many generations.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 1 Oct 2010 6:51 am

As the country song is written: "Easy come, easy go, I found out a-long time ago,"aint" no future in the past, broken hearts, and all that jazz... Who wrote that song?

Bill Anderson