Q. Recently I've become interested in both these genres (blues more than jazz since I already listen to lots of folk music). But I really am confused the specific differences between the genres. I thought jazz was like a band with saxophone and piano but the jazz station is playing Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, etc singers like them
A. Jazz covers a wide variety of styles, from ragtime and Dixieland to swing to bebop to alternative - and a whole lot more in between. The focus is always on creativity and improvisation - sometimes if is difficult for a new listener to even follow where the original melody goes, when players start improvising on it! Similarly, the rhythmic and harmonic structures, which started out as part of the accompaniment, are also expected to leave the normal world behind, and take off into flights of fancy. So not only is somebody redecorating the rooms - the whole house has moved to another state.
Blues tends to be more adherent to its roots,especially in its use of phrase and chordal structure. Like barbecue ribs, however, each major city had it variations on that formula. But in its essence, 12 bars, 3 chords. This makes is easy to follow, and the lyrics are slower and they repeat - so it is easier for the audience to keep up.
Musicians have an old joke that reflects on the contrast - and the relative popularity - between traditional blue, and progressive, atonal jazz:
"What is the difference between blues, and modern jazz?"
"A blues musician plays three chords, in front of thousands of people. A modern jazz musician plays thousands of chords - in front of three people."
The Ella and Frank things you are hearing are 32-bar standards; Frank may deviate from the melody some, and add his own phrasing; Ella will do that, and also in up-tempo tunes, she will "scat' - use her voice like an instrument, using no words, but free syllables that allow her the freedom to improvise melodic passages just like an instrumentalist would do. Although not invented by her, she was the queen of this skill.
If you can get it - and sit thru it all - get the Ken Burns series on jazz as a video (several in a box). you will learn a ton. Also watch the HBO series Treme. Go to the Jazz at Lincoln Center site - and watch shows in which Wynton Marsalis talks about jazz as well as playing. You have a lot on your plate - but it is all tasty.
Does anyone have the sheet music for Vanessa Carlton's I Don't Wanna Be a Bride?
Q. Can anyone please share the piano chords for the piano part of Carlton's song I Don't Wanna Be a Bride. I already have the guitar tabs but I also want the piano. Thank you!
A. Chords: Vanessa Carlton - I Don't Wanna Be a Bride
C - - - - - - - - Am
I like your company, got a new philosophy
F - - - - - - - - - - - - - G
Never knew such a gentleman
C - - - - - - - - - - - - Am
And you can take me on a cheap vacation
F
I don't want to have expectations
G
'Cause you could be the end of me
Am - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - F
And I don't need a house on a hill, a swing on a tree
G - - - - - - - - - C
A grandfather clock, porcelain for tea
Am - - - - - - - - F
A garden with rose and jasmine
G
I wanna get drunk on a bottle of wine
F
No better way to pass the time
Am - - - - - - F
Forever by your side
- - - - - - - - - - - - C
But I don't want to be a bride
- - - - - - - - Am
Apologies to your mother
- - - - - - - - - F - - - - - - - G
But I could be your girl and share this life with you
- - - - - - - - - - - - C
But I don't want to wear white
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Am
You know it's too late for that
- - - - - - - - - - F
Can we keep the ever after?
- - - - - - -G
Oh, could it be?
C
Don't need no golden ring
Am
It'd be no match for the love you'd bring
- - F - - - - - - - - - G
From London to Tennessee
- - - - - - C
And we could catch a train to another life
Am
On a whim under the moonlight
- - - - - F - - - - - - - - - - - G
I promise you, will you promise me?
F
Our last names on a wooden sign
G
Arm in arm where the river starts to wind
Am - - - - - - F
Forever by your side
C
But I don't want to be a bride
- - - - - - - - Am
Apologies to each other
- - - - - - - - - F - - - - - - - - - G
But I could be your girl and share this life with you
- - - - - - - - - - - - - C
But I don't want to wear white
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Am
You know it's too late for that
- - - - - - - - - -F
Can we keep the ever after?
- - - - - - - G
Oh, could it be?
- - - - - - - Em
Just you and me
- - - - G
Ah, ah, ah
- - - - C - - - - - - - - - - - - F - - - G
We will live like kings under lavender skies, skies
- - - - C - - - - - - - - - - - - F - - - G
We will live like kings under lavender skies, skies
C
We will built a poem we kept a rhyme
Am
Wrapped our love in golden twine
F - - - - - - - - - - G
We wrote, we wrote a legacy
Just you and me
C - - - - - - - - - - - F - - - G
Just like kings under lavender skies, skies
Am (let fade)
We will
Cheers ebs
How to not get restless during a boring lecture?
Q. So, sometimes, when a lecture feels like its going too slow, like its droning on, I get irritated and restless. I start tapping my feet and doodling and having to painfully force myself to pay attention. I feel like their might be no way to make it easier for me, but I wanted to ask anyway, just to see what other people had to say.
So, how do you do it?
A. _474 Things To Do When You're Bored_ Here are some:
- Wax the ceiling
- Rearrange political campaign signs
- Sharpen your teeth
- Play Houdini with one of your siblings
- Braid your dog's hair
- Clean and polish your belly button
- Water your dog...see if he grows
- Wash a tree
- Knight yourself
- Name your child Edsel
- Scare Stephen King
- Give your cat a mohawk
- Purr
- Mow your carpet
- Play Pat Boone records backwards
- Vacuum your lawn
- Sleep on a bed of nails
- DON'T toss and turn
- Boil ice cream
- Run around in squares
- Think of quadruple entendres
- Speak in acronyms
- Have your pillow X-rayed
- Drink straight shots...of water
- Calmly have a nervous breakdown
- Give your goldfish a perm
- Fly a brick
- Play tag...on West 35th Street
- Exorcise a ghost
- Exercise a ghost
- Be blue
- Be red
- But don't be orange
- Plant a shoe
- Sweat
- Give a Rorschach test to your gerbil
- Turn
- Write a letter to Plato
- Mail it
- Take your sofa for a walk
- Start
- Stop
- Dial 911 and breathe heavily
- Go to a funeral...tell jokes
- Play the piano...with mittens on
- Scheme
- Sit
- Stay
- Water your family room
- Cause a power failure
- Roll over
- Play dead
- Find a witch
- Burn her
- Donate your brother's body to science
- Ask why
- Wriggle
- Regress
- Sleepwalk without sleeping
- Try to join Hell's Angels by mail
- Wonder
- Be a square root
- Ask stupid questions
- Weld your car doors shut
- Spew
- Vacation at Three-Mile Island
- Surf Ohio
- Teach your pet rock to play dead
- Go bowling for small game
- Be a monk...for a day
- Wear a sweatband to your wedding
- Staple
- Run away
- Intimidate a piece of chalk
- Abuse the plumbing
- Bend a florescent light
- Bend a brick
- Annoy total strangers
- Let the best man win
- Believe in Santa Claus
- Throw marshmallows against the wall
- Hold an ice cube as long as possible
- Adopt strange mannerisms
- Blow up a balloon until it pops
- Sing soft and sweet and clear
- Sing loud and sour and gravely
- Open everything
- Balance a pencil on your nose
- Pour milk in your shoes
- Write graffiti under the rug
- Embarrass yourself
- Grind your teeth
- Chew ice
- Count your belly button
- Sit in a row
- Stack crumbs
- Gesture
- Save your toenail clippings
- Make a pass at your blender
- Punt
- Make up words that start with X
- Make oatmeal in the bathtub
- Search for the Lost Chord
- Chew on a sofa cushion
- Sing a duet
- Balance a pillow on your head
- Hold your breath
- Faint
- Stretch
- Flash your mailman
- Teach your TA English
- Learn to speak Farsi
- Swear in Russian
- Use an eraser until it goes away
- Disassemble your car
- Put it together inside out
- Record your walls
- Interview your feet
- Make a list of your favorite fungi
- Sell formaldehyde
- Repeat
- Ad lib
- Fade
- File your teeth - Whine
- Rake your carpet
- Re-elect Richard Nixon
- Critique "Three's Company"
- Listen to a painting
- Play with matches
- Buff your cat
- Race ferrets
- Paint your house...Day-Glow Orange
- Have a formal dinner at White Castle
- Read Homer in the original Greek
- Learn Greek
- Change your mind
- Change it back
- Watch the sun...see if it moves
- Build a pyramid
- Stand on your head
- Stand on someone else's head
- Spit shine your Nikes
- See how long you can stay awake
- See how long you can sleep
- Paint your teeth
- Wear a salad
- Speak with a forked tongue
- Paint stripes on a lake
- Ski Kansas
- Sleep in freefall
- Kill a Joule
- Test thin ice...with a pogo stick
- Apply for a unicorn hunting license
- Do a good job
- Crawl
- Invite the Mansons over for dinner
- Paint your windows
- Watch a watch until it stops
- Flash your goldfish
- Paint
- Flirt with an evergreen
- Smile
- Rotate your garden...daily
- Paint a smile
- Shoot a fire hydrant
- Apologize to it
- Pretend you're blind
- Annoy yourself
- Get mad at yourself
- Stop speaking to yourself
- Be a side effect
- Ride a bicycle...up Mt. McKinley
- Duck
- Redecorate...your garage
- Develop a complex
- Join the Army...be someone simple
- Try harder
- Hit the deck
- Put leg-warmers on your furniture
- Cut the deck
- Crumple
- Translate Shakespeare into English
- Skydive to church
- Cheer up a potato
- Do aerobic exercises...in your head
- Play cards with your swimming pool
- Pinstripe your driveway
- Play Kick the Fire Hydrant
- Harness chipmunk power
- Build a house with ice cubes
- Call London for a cab
- Mug a stop sign
- Change your name...daily
- Go for a walk in your attic
- Challenge your neighbor to a duel
- Build a house out of toothpicks
- Howl
- Wear a lampshade on your head
- Memorize the dictionary
- Stomp grapes in the bathtub
- Find a bug and chase it
- Make yourself a pair of wings
For more, visit: http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~jimg/reading/bored.html
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