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

Well, good for you then! *pats Krans J. Hopeson, Minister for Idiocy (Zaphodista) on the head*

Sorry, Willem. Will stop.

*starts twiddling on his clarinet and learning whatever it Shee wants him to learn*

You play the scale. Go on, do it. Now, you play the notes in that scale in whatever order you want them. Don't go out of the scale; it sounds awful! Using C major isn't a good one (really should be a blues scale--they differ like major/minor, in which notes are half steps off from the major). Get some riffs going (heh heh, since you can't hear *me* (not that I'm any good... terrible in fact... but I understand the concepts ), go listen to some jazz music by Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie and pay attention to their improv and reuse their riffs)...

The biggest rule is:
Be loose. If you like something, repeat it. Don't play classical rhythms! (Well, you can, but if you launch into Weber it wouldn't be exactly improv, would it?...)

*plays, badly*

Ah, I see.

*bes slightly perturbed by the lack of music this ensueues*

*likes his printed music*

I had the idea Njan was the expert here, and now *you're* trying to teach *him*, Shee?

Two totally different styles... I get the feeling he is an amazing clasical player, but I've done jazz and he hasn't....

It didn't sound *that* bad, Njan...

Actually, I have been "taught" a little jazz playing... one of my clarinet teachers was a jazz clarinettist / guitarrist (he taught Thom Yorke, of Radiohead fame, guitar)... and I've studied under a classical / jazz / contemporary composer whose name I can't remember, but still. I'm a classical player rather than a jazz player.

(I never said I could remember any of the tuition)


...

thankyou. *bows*

*deliberately makes no comment on the use of 'player'...*

*remembers this is what her friends teased her about*



Rock on, Njan!

explain?

*demurely*
Hmm...?

There are two different meanings of 'player' (duh)... When I said "I'm a player" they deliberately misunderstood me because it is so far from my personality type. And wouldn't let it drop. Rather rude, really...

... aww.

That's a meaning I've never heard actually used, but I think I kinda vaguely know what you mean. I'd say "That's an americanisation, so...", but I'm not quite sure if you're in america or not.

Yes American... Unfortunately .

I'm trying to come up with a synonym, but arising completely blank... Runs around/lays around. Which is most definitely *not* me. Which is why they tease me.

I suppose the "duh" wasn't warranted, then, was it? I was afraid of it being completely obvious, and then saying something like that would need the "duh". But it didn't... I didn't realise it was an Americanism... Learn something new every day.

aww.

Come and join us in england. It's much better, because... well... it rains. Yeah.

I know what it means. :p... both of those verbs are americanisms as well, though.. the first one I'd never heard, the second I had.



Like the english word "shag", which no-one in america (seemingly) realised had a meaning that they weren't cogniscant with.

It's true though. And the "pants" jokes are good too.

and in england it's spelt d'oh.

.......what?

I knew that! When the next door neighbor had a 10-year-old niece from England she was completely shocked at "Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me"!

Loose women .

... well, you're... different.

I won't ask.

()

"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies--a bad end comes to a person who pries."

eek!

Sorry.. been hecticly busy doing things!

*looks around and jumps in, closing the door behind him*

hi again.

ahh...

No, I give up.. where does the lyric come from?