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Toxikator wrote:Meh. I stick to my views but with Nuffink and Hink being mean-spirited I figure it's better to just say "okay".

So, "okay".
dude...I'm far from mean spirited :lol:
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Hink wrote:
still a goddamned hippy though.
and what are you? :roll:



none of your business, hippy.
:ud:

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vurt wrote:
Hink wrote:
still a goddamned hippy though.
and what are you? :roll:



none of your business, happy?
always
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Hink wrote:
Toxikator wrote:Meh. I stick to my views but with Nuffink and Hink being mean-spirited I figure it's better to just say "okay".

So, "okay".
dude...I'm far from mean spirited :lol:
Yes you are. It's his right to be wrong and proclaim his ignorance as loud as he likes. Challenging him is not just mean spirited, it's probably unconstitional.

Coming next from toxi - Serialism: It's all just counterpoint really. 'Cos I want it to be.
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one thing does confuse me...why do some people have two standards of behavior...one online and one for real life? (taking "real" with a grain of salt)...I prefer to be consistant and up front, not be someone else when I'm anonymous or no one is looking :shrug:
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.

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And you better keep it like that, Hink.
I'm just the same.
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.

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Hink wrote:one thing does confuse me...why do some people have two standards of behavior...one online and one for real life? (taking "real" with a grain of salt)...I prefer to be consistant and up front, not be someone else when I'm anonymous or no one is looking :shrug:



yup i know what you mean, and yes i would call you a hippy to your face :P
:ud:

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Sascha Franck wrote:And you better keep it like that, Hink.
I'm just the same.
47 years Sascha...I'm gonna change now? :hihi:....frohe Weihnachten Sascha :)
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.

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Hehe, thanks Hink! To you too!
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.

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vurt wrote:
Hink wrote:one thing does confuse me...why do some people have two standards of behavior...one online and one for real life? (taking "real" with a grain of salt)...I prefer to be consistant and up front, not be someone else when I'm anonymous or no one is looking :shrug:



yup i know what you mean, and yes i would call you a hippy to your face :P
I hope you get that chance :wink:
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.

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Voidoid Surrealist wrote: Jove Male Mome 18/8
WOW...

what a cool groove this piece has. :love:

(I have to admit I tried counting to it and ended up with 6 beats)

Where can I listen-to/buy more music like this. Does anyone know who the singer is. Awesome singing style.

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Triplets are like centimeters. They're fixed and undebatable things.
Swing is like "yea long" and you either get it or you don't.

I've seen drummers who couldn't swing if they hung.
Rakkervoksen

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nuffink wrote:It's his right to be wrong and proclaim his ignorance as loud as he likes. Challenging him is not just mean spirited, it's probably unconstitional.

Coming next from toxi - Serialism: It's all just counterpoint really. 'Cos I want it to be.
Now see, that's just plain mean-spirited.

I don't care that you have no ear for music, there's no reason to start the condescension.
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"OK, guys, let's play this song I just wrote. It's real easy. The sonic entities are kind of formant heavy slightly resonant rectified square wave thingies, most of the frequencies are bunched around 2500 Hz. Ready? INTERACT!"
Hey - I wrote that!

I look away for what seems like a moment, and suddenly theres another 10 pages! thank goodness for printview :)

If you take a hi-hat pattern of semiquavers (16ths if you will) that goes |x-xx|x-xx|x-xx|x-xx| even though it is arguably straight, it is eminently possible to 'swing' it by introducing ambiguities in placement of the kick and ghost notes on the snare. I do it all the time.. It's perfectly straight/non-tripleted both on paper and in the air, but with a little bit of imagination when playing it swings all over the place... just thought I'd through that in ;)

I remember back in the day when meter used to 1.0936 yards...

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Hold on, I have an experiment in an attempt to settle this.

Though the score labels it, I'm sure, as 4/4 with swing, this song is based on triplet 8th notes. You can hear distinct and readily identifiable triplets in virtually EVERY solo, and even in the main riff later on in the song.

The song, BTW, is Benny Goodman's Orchestra (you know, the "king of swing").

Tell me that isn't triplet 8th notes (compound time). There's NO WAY you don't hear it.
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