h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not so fast...I'm just not good with titles.



Maybe its time has come.

Ah that one. Just dug it out. Yes I quite like it. Any suggestions?

clink

Suggestions? What sort? No ... just wanted to remind you that it's a pretty tune that deserves better than to be permanently relegated to 'didn't make the cut'. I surmise that the acoustic track had definitely been chosen for inclusion and you felt that one soft track was enough ... ?

I think I followed suggestions at the time.

I'll have a think.

G'night!

Please do.

G'nite!

Is 'I'll have a think' interchangeable with 'I'll get back to you on that'? And are you working you way through your My Think?

Ta.





I've done more than that, I've relearned the chords and melody this morning. I'm more interested in what 'reworking' you might have thought of?

Delighted!

clink

Not sure, when I said 'reworking' that it needed any other than the odd tweak you might have suddenly thought of. I suppose I might think it ends a little too abruptly for my taste: surprising, because of the wistful quality of the opening melody and a whimsical sense in the way it expands ... in a less melodic and more unconventional piece, a 'that's enough of that' ending could and would and does work (as in duo title track, where it does work very effectively), but I'm less convinced in a tune that starts so gently and could be acoustic, so exposed does it sound.

Just listened to it again and could I suggest that it winds down/back to the opening melody to close it off? But hey, it's your tune and I'm just thinking aloud and projecting my own feel to it.

No your instinct is correct in this case as I can exclusively reveal that the reason it ends that way is to do with technical constraints at the time of recording rather than musical considerations.

Cheers!

That explains it: tune captured, done and dusted, and I'm still happy that it has lived to see another day

Mose Todd, I was upstairs doing idunnowot but able to faintly hear audio from downstairs. Heard a completely different tune, based on the lower notes of your playing on Clip's final piece (couldn't hear him playing at all and even came down to check what had generated this). Close up, I can't hear what I detected from afar but it were deuced pretty (and nor was it part of the synchronised phase).

You mean to say that you put through all that, upthread, and then tell me that the recording was curtailed? Doh and double doh, thrice.

Yup.

Consider your card ... marked (suppressed smirk), harrumph :-|

Off to rehearse.

Have a good one ... come to think of it, I thought you were out this evening anyway. Off out myself soon, so I'll leave them for later ...



... if I can resist. No, no, I'm driving. TTFN

When the rain is sheeting down is no time to discover you've lost your house key ... d'you know how wet it's possible to get pfaffing around trying to open a keysafe in the dark? Combination remembered, but there are two vertical sets of five buttons for wet fingers to slip off, covering the range 0-9 ... but do they go 0-4 and 5-9, or 1-5 and 6-0 ... and how do you zero your abortive attempt to input combination ... and which slider works in which way once you have done it correctly, so that you don't end up resetting the locking mechanism before you've opened the safe to remove the keys ... and still the pain is rissing down (sic) ... page 94 is sodden and so was I, grutter grutter.

Anyhoo, 'perhaps' your rehearsal went much better than that

G'nite!

... and watch that puddle ... there ...

It did thanks! Poor you...

Glad it went well, does perhaps have a future?

I am fighting off the 'sign' from last night that I need to stay in more, doh, as I clearly can't be trusted out and unsupervised. Supermarket phoned back again to say they've had another good look in daylight and no rain: no luck; nor did their cleaners find anything. Tis a mystery, as I checked the car with a torch last night too - well, I would, wouldn't I? I was frantic and locked out; thought I would have to drive over to JtJ* to blag a bed for the night as the keysafe was resolutely resisting my access attempts.



* No, said he, not a chance of a bed to a soggy whinging blob, don't care what your excuses are.

Thank goodness you got in eventually.

G'night!