Last weekend, I listened to a lot of Nigerian highlife from the 70s and decided: hey, that sounds fun! Let's try that! As usually happens, direction changes once things get moving. So I didn't even get close to highlife.
Instead I got this:
Last weekend, I listened to a lot of Nigerian highlife from the 70s and decided: hey, that sounds fun! Let's try that! As usually happens, direction changes once things get moving. So I didn't even get close to highlife.
Instead I got this:
Pfizer shot one was nothing: sore arm for a few days. After 23 hours, Pfizer shot two is awful: crushing headache, chills, heartburn, all-over aching.
Whew.
My 5G reception is much better after the second dose, though.
Again.
Why aren't insurance companies charging people who refuse the COVID19 vaccine extra in premiums?
Why should the rest of us pay for their voluntary choice to not protect themselves?
According to police, 23-year-old Nastasia Snape was driving northbound in the area of 4000 North Ocean Boulevard. at approximately 10:20 p.m. when she drove her car off the road and onto a sidewalk.
That’s when, according to an arrest report, Snape hit the victim, who was walking southbound on the sidewalk.
The victim has been identified by authorities as Sandra Feuerstein. She was rushed to Delray Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.
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Police said Snape did not stop her car after hitting Feuerstein.
She continued going, striking a 6-year-old boy who was crossing Ocean Boulevard in the crosswalk, before re-entering the roadway and continuing northbound, according to police.
There was no update in an arrest report on the condition of the boy.
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Police said Snape exited the vehicle and while being treated by first responders, began screaming and fighting with medics, stating that she was “Harry Potter.”
The head of China's Centers for Disease Control admitted that the efficacy of Chinese coronavirus vaccines is "not high" and they may require improvements, marking a rare admission from a government that has staked its international credibility on its doses.
The comments on Saturday from China CDC director George Gao comes after the government has already distributed hundreds of millions of doses to other countries, even though the rollout has been dogged by questions over why Chinese pharmaceutical firms have not released detailed clinical trial data about their efficacy.
China has struck deals to supply many of its allies and economic partners in the developing world and advertised the fact that world leaders from Indonesia to Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates have taken them.
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Now, China is “formally considering” options to change its vaccines to “solve the problem that the efficacy of the existing vaccines is not high,” Gao told a conference in Chengdu in remarks that quickly spread through Chinese social media on Saturday before being mostly censored. Soon people were intentionally misspelling words in their posts while discussing the comments to keep them from being removed.
Let's listen to Martha Griffiths!
You're welcome.
What a terrible centrist.
During remarks announcing new executive actions to curb gun violence Thursday, Biden took a detour as he imagined being able to ask God to immediately change one gun law, and it wasn't eliminating assault weapons or "bump stocks."
He would have the almighty let people sue gun-makers.
“This is the only outfit that is exempt from being sued. If I get one thing on my list — (if) the Lord came down and said, 'Joe, you get one of these' — give me that one," Biden said at a ceremony at the Rose Garden.
"Most people don’t realize, the only industry in America, billion-dollar industry, that can’t be sued, exempt from being sued, are gun manufacturers,” Biden continued.
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“He wants to drive us out of business,” Mark Oliva, the director of public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry trade group, said of Biden. “So it's a very scary proposition, and we take it very seriously.”
Suck it, fucko.
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching this video from Paul Davids in which he describes a couple of simple ways to do arpeggios on guitar.
The method he describes is nice because it lets you do an arpeggio for any four-note chord on just two strings, using a couple of simple patterns.
Ex. to do an arpeggio of an Amaj7:
E —————————————— B —————————————— G —————————————— D —————————————— A ————————7———11 E —5———9————————
Start at the root note (A), go up four frets to play the major 3rd (C#). Go down a string and up two frets from where you started the last bit to the 5th (E), then up another four frets to get the major 7 (G#).
It's two major third intervals (four frets each).
And if you want to do an A minor 7th:
E —————————————— B —————————————— G —————————————— D —————————————— A ————————7——10— E —5———6————————
Two minor third intervals (three frets each).
So, it's:
That's pretty nice. But, that four fret stretch is tough for me - maybe I have stiff little fingers or something.
But, it's easy enough to refactor this idea into something that takes no reach at all:
Amaj7:
E —————————————— B —————————————— G —————————————— D ———————————6—— A ————4———7————— E —5————————————
If you can play a basic open G (or C) chord, the shape here will feel completely natural: root on middle finger, major third on index finger. Then drop your fingers down a string and up two frets and play that same shape.
Similarly, for a minor 7th (ex C#m7):
E —————————————— B —————————————— G ————————————4— D ————2———6————— A —4——————————— E ——————————————
Again, it's a simple shape (though maybe not one you're used to): root on ring finger, second note (minor third) is one string down and two frets back on your index finger. Then down a string, up two frets and repeat.
And, as with Paul Davids' method, you can mix the two shapes. First two notes in the G shape and next two in the G minor shape gives you a classic 7th chord.
Ex. E7:
E —————————————— B —————————————— G ————————————7— D —————6———9———— A —7———————————— E ——————————————
So, mine is:
And if you do those three arpeggios (Amaj7, C#m7, E7, plus one for Dmaj7) on a bass, you get HFY.
If you mix the shapes the other way around - minor third then major third - you get the lovely 'minor major 7' chord:
Ex. Am maj7:
E —————————————— B —————————————— G —————————————— D ———————————6—— A ————3———7————— E —5————————————
A minor major 7 chord is an unusual one in popular/rock music. But, this chord does appears (incidentally, I'm guessing) in at least one very popular tune. It's in the chords at the end of the verses in The Beatles' "Something":
Am "I don't want to leave her now"
Am maj7
A7 "You know I believe and how"
D7
Am AmM7 A7 D7 E 0———0————0———2———— B 1———1————1———1———— G 2———1————0———2———— D 2———2————2———0———— A 0———0————0——————— E ——————————————
That G string just walks down from the octave, to the major 7 to the minor 7. AmM7 is just something that happens by virtue of that walk down - that's why I assume it's merely incidental.
By what can't be a coincidence, a similar G string walk down same happens in the first set of verse chords: C, CMaj7, C7, then an F.
Something in the way she knows ... attracts me like.... C Cmaj7 C7 E 3 3 3 B 5 5 5 G 5 4 3 D 5 5 5 A 3 3 3
Which brings up another fun use of arpeggios!
Put all that together and you get my rendition of that song, "Something Else".
Verses are picking on these shapes:
C Cmaj7 C7 F D G E ——3—————3 ——3—————3 ——3—————3 5—6—8 ——5—————5 7——8——10 B ————3—5—— ————3—5—— ————3—5—— 6—6—6 ————5—7—— 8——8——7 G 5———————— 4———————— 3———————— 5—5—5 7———————— 7——7——7
Here, walking the low note down (while strings play the root) gives those three C chords.
And then there's that Am section, which I do as:
Am AmM7 A7 C E ——6————————6————————6——————8 B ————8————7———7————6———6————8 G 7—————7————————7————————7——9
Again, just walking that one note down - root, maj 7, min 7 - on the B string this time.
Any other simple arpeggios in there? Of course!
The "You're asking me will my love grow" section:
"You're asking me will my love grow A C#m F#m A E ——9——————9———— ———9————9———— ———9———————9———— ——9————————9—— B ————10————10—— 9———9—————9— —————10——————10— —————10——————10 G 9——————9—————— ———————9————— —11—————11—————— 9———————9————— I don't know I don't know D G A, G# ,G, F#, F, E.... start over at A E ———10———————10 ———10———————10——— 12 11 10 etc. B ——————10——————10 ——————12———————12 14 13 12 G 11———————11 12———————12————— 14 13 12
Same picking pattern, different chord shapes.
Fun, right?
In the intro, when there's a bunch of text floating around, YouTube's auto-generated Russian-> English closed caption reads:
"[music] you do / over the dominion of serial plasticine muzzle wounds."
This is going to be meme fodder for ages.