You have already met them? Men in Red, unshaved and with big bags on their back? Reindeers with bells. Jingle here, jingle there. The whole town is like a ship, ready for travel. Believe it or not, in Sweden it´s something of tradition to watch Donald Duck & co in the afternoon of the 24th of december. It´s since the days of only one TV-channel.
Guitarplayers, anyway, often wait for other pleasureable moments. Something new, beyond that usual germanian round-the-christmastree-dancing with midgets.
Why not a new scale? Take any cheap keyboard, you find the whites. Hey! That´s the old C major scale, c d e f g a b (c)... Once again, do a little change, instead of f, take f#, with a little movement of your index-finger. Find it on the fretboard of your well tuned guitar also.
If your guitar is in the pawn-shop, get it.
The inhaltung of the scale, with f#, is identical with the G-major scale, but in "wrong" order.
It doesn´t matter, in the front of the mirror you now can be Carlos Santana. Or should I say; Mandrake.
Suitable background chords are for example Am and D7. Let your combo repeat the background with steady beat...., and your neighbors dance around the christmas tree like under hypnosis
They jump like rabbits, screamin for more!
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Little Red Riding Hood
"One upon a time there was a little girl who lived in a village. She was only six years of age and such a nice little girl. Her grandmother was very fond of her and made her a little red cloak with a hood. So everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.
One day when her mother was baking, she said,
" I hear your poor grandmother is ill in bed. Go across the forest and see how she is, and take her this cake and a pot of butter."Little Red Riding Hood was pleased to go. So she took the basket with the cake and butter on her arm, and went off. While she was in the forest, a little salesman with a guitarcase came along the road.
"Good morning, Red Riding Hood", said the little salesman, "where are you going?" Now Red Riding Hood did not know that it is dangerous to stop and speak to small guitar players, specially if they also were salesmen. So she said: "I´m going to see grandmother and I am taking her a cake and a pot of butter". "Where does your grandmother live?" said the tiny guitarplayersalesman.
"On a cottage at the end of the forest", said Red Riding Hood. "Well, good morning!", said the little man. Red Riding Hood stopped to pick some flowers for her grandmother, and the little salesman with the guitarcase went away. As soon as he was out of her sight, he ran away to the old womans cottage, and knocked at the door. As a matter of fact, it was a little cottage, like a dolls house.
"Who´s there?", said the old woman in a weak voice. "Little Red Riding Hood," said the little salesman, imitating a little girl´s voice. "Mother sends you a little cake and a pot of butter."
"Lift up the latch and walk in Robert Bedford, I know you," said the grandmother; "I´m still in bed and can´t come to the door."
So the salesman lifted the latch and ran in with a cheap guitar he maybe would sell to the poor old grandmother in a suitable moment later in the evening. He hanged up his guitar around the neck and began to sing;
"Love me Tender, Love me Sweet".....before he got on his own nightcap, got into the warm bed , and pulled up the bedclothes. They were waiting. It was almost dark when Red Riding Hood came and knocked at the door of the litte cottage. "Who´s there?", said Robert, imitating the grandmothers voice just for fun. "Little Red Riding Hood. Mother sends you a cake and a pot of butter".
"Lift up the latch and join in!", said Robert, but Red Riding Hood couldn´t enter, the door was to small. Robert Bedford, the tiny little guitar salesman, had escaped from the guitar toy museum. He was famous and couldn´t understand why the woman outside wouldn´t gaze him. http://www.metalriffs.com/museum/
"How hoarse you are Red Riding Hood!", said Grandmother. "That´s maybe because I´ve got a cold in the forest Granny" said Red Riding Hood. "It´s getting late, so you must undress and come to bed."shouted Robert Bedford more reminding. "I can´t ", said Red Riding Hood. When she looked in through a little window she saw two people under the sheet, with nightcaps.
"What a friend you´ve got Granny!", she said. "All the better to play with, my dear!", said Grandmother. Red Riding Hood began to laugh.
"But, Red Hiding Hood, what great teeth you´ve got!", said Grandmother. "All the better to eat cake with my dear!, said Red Riding Hood and pushed in some cake through the door, enough too feed them for at least two months.
One day when her mother was baking, she said,
" I hear your poor grandmother is ill in bed. Go across the forest and see how she is, and take her this cake and a pot of butter."Little Red Riding Hood was pleased to go. So she took the basket with the cake and butter on her arm, and went off. While she was in the forest, a little salesman with a guitarcase came along the road.
"Good morning, Red Riding Hood", said the little salesman, "where are you going?" Now Red Riding Hood did not know that it is dangerous to stop and speak to small guitar players, specially if they also were salesmen. So she said: "I´m going to see grandmother and I am taking her a cake and a pot of butter". "Where does your grandmother live?" said the tiny guitarplayersalesman.
"On a cottage at the end of the forest", said Red Riding Hood. "Well, good morning!", said the little man. Red Riding Hood stopped to pick some flowers for her grandmother, and the little salesman with the guitarcase went away. As soon as he was out of her sight, he ran away to the old womans cottage, and knocked at the door. As a matter of fact, it was a little cottage, like a dolls house.
"Who´s there?", said the old woman in a weak voice. "Little Red Riding Hood," said the little salesman, imitating a little girl´s voice. "Mother sends you a little cake and a pot of butter."
"Lift up the latch and walk in Robert Bedford, I know you," said the grandmother; "I´m still in bed and can´t come to the door."
So the salesman lifted the latch and ran in with a cheap guitar he maybe would sell to the poor old grandmother in a suitable moment later in the evening. He hanged up his guitar around the neck and began to sing;
"Love me Tender, Love me Sweet".....before he got on his own nightcap, got into the warm bed , and pulled up the bedclothes. They were waiting. It was almost dark when Red Riding Hood came and knocked at the door of the litte cottage. "Who´s there?", said Robert, imitating the grandmothers voice just for fun. "Little Red Riding Hood. Mother sends you a cake and a pot of butter".
"Lift up the latch and join in!", said Robert, but Red Riding Hood couldn´t enter, the door was to small. Robert Bedford, the tiny little guitar salesman, had escaped from the guitar toy museum. He was famous and couldn´t understand why the woman outside wouldn´t gaze him. http://www.metalriffs.com/museum/
"How hoarse you are Red Riding Hood!", said Grandmother. "That´s maybe because I´ve got a cold in the forest Granny" said Red Riding Hood. "It´s getting late, so you must undress and come to bed."shouted Robert Bedford more reminding. "I can´t ", said Red Riding Hood. When she looked in through a little window she saw two people under the sheet, with nightcaps.
"What a friend you´ve got Granny!", she said. "All the better to play with, my dear!", said Grandmother. Red Riding Hood began to laugh.
"But, Red Hiding Hood, what great teeth you´ve got!", said Grandmother. "All the better to eat cake with my dear!, said Red Riding Hood and pushed in some cake through the door, enough too feed them for at least two months.
Monday, November 07, 2005
NOVEMBER´s SHORT-CUT TICKET
Hello guitar owners. Today we look at the C-major scale.It looks normal.
But when eating your Kebab you often been thinking; "how do I manage to play bellydancer music with that old dull scale?" C D E F G A B.
On keyboard it´s the whites. You need one little change,....... G to G#.
The scale is now C D E F G# A B.
Try it like a snake on the fretboard against backgrounds, with, for example, Am and E7 chords.
Soon you find the room sizzling hot. If normally bored neighbors at that point are shoutin n´knockin on the wall; "Go home you smoked sausage foreigner!, .....you know you made it !
But when eating your Kebab you often been thinking; "how do I manage to play bellydancer music with that old dull scale?" C D E F G A B.
On keyboard it´s the whites. You need one little change,....... G to G#.
The scale is now C D E F G# A B.
Try it like a snake on the fretboard against backgrounds, with, for example, Am and E7 chords.
Soon you find the room sizzling hot. If normally bored neighbors at that point are shoutin n´knockin on the wall; "Go home you smoked sausage foreigner!, .....you know you made it !
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Do you make any CD:s of lasting value?
Let me know by leaving your comment.
How many copies there are is not important.
Name of the collection? Where in the world did you do it?
You also may send information to bonnajazz@spray.se
You may have the opportunity to be published on this blog.
I´ve heard some wonderful from Japan, on TV, "Tennisshoes" (groupname)
Tiny ideas are often the best.
To other local delighted strawberrypickers; Let´s meet again some years from now,
the same time, the same place, The Hangin Microphone Mono Studio.
Play first, ask later.
Friday, October 21, 2005
PIECE OF PEACE
The title "Blåbär" (Blueberry), associates in swedish alsoto "beginner". Can I make a suggestion?
Don´t play it before I´m far away.
It appeared in a unpopular low-budget movie;
"Absolutely by ear", even the music is worth nothing.
So, may I say as Yngwie Malmsteen in one of the shortest guitar-instructions I´ve ever seen;
"Practise that or I come and put the guitar in your throat".
Frank Zappa said; "Shudup and play your guitar".
Yes, yes, yes.... I try, I try.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
the EAST-WEST case
First of all; it´s for me amusing to try to tell stories like this in english.
(....because of long distance readers, I know some of you are.)
I think it was in the year 1969. I was in bed. listening to the radio. The same radio (swedish made Dux ?) that strangely survived it´s own fire sometime earlier. Bad smelling smoke, but we had good great openable windows. By the way, even earlier, in the same room me and one of my friends had put some kind of gasoline on a wooden Alamo-castle with plastic cowboys.
I never do that anymore.
We memorized it on Super-8. Real fire indoors, close-ups when brave men melted down....Dark, poisionfilled smoke even this time, but fortunatley we had good great openable windows.
This was the alternative movie to for example Poopeye the Sailorman, the incredible macho who always got his girl ( after saved her from very dangerous situations ).
We knew nothing, about computers, absolutely nothing about the webb. But somehow the fantasy was working... In my bed, listening to the radio, heard the broadcasting from the otherside of the atlantic, a man named Claes Dahlgren had some news.
For the moment he thought swedish listeners should listen to a special number, about 13 minutes long, something called"East-West", with the Paul Butterfield Bluesband.
By writing this, you know my impression. It was the first time I reflected over the wonder with improvisation over the borderlines. Today "world-music" is common, even many times nothing interesting because of the total massindustry, with lots of digital discodrums.
Anyway, I later bought the record and I still have it somewhere.
I think Mike Bloomfield played a Telecaster. The model is a good invention. Just lately, (unbelieveable) , for the first time, I checked it up. It was a copy, made somewhere in in the East......WOW, you lightly little slidy.
I wanna buy.
For me you are perfect.
I like conventionals.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
En enkel (Citroen) CV
1970-73 Dansorkester, mer än 300 helkvällar 1974-75 Studiefrämjandet Halmstad (gitarrcirkelledare) ht-74 60studietimmar, vt-75 160studietimmar1976 Hylte musikskola tre veckors heltidsvik Studiefrämjandet Malmö 1977-78 200studietimmar, 1978-79 294studietimmar, 1979-80 392studietimmar, 1980-81 350studietimmar 1978ht Dalby 4 vtr 1978-81 Gitarrduo, sommarturne´r. Bl a Vadstena 2ggr. 1979 fler än trettio entimmeskonserter vt1982-vt1987 (tio terminer) Kommunala musikskolan Halmstad. Ett fast antal timmar per termin, som mest 11 vtr.Därutöver tillkom tillfälliga uvt. 1982-86 ABF södra Halland. Gitarr och ensemblecirklar, bl a kring temat "folkmusik i olika länder" 1983-85 ca KV Halmstad./ 1985-86 TBV Halmstad 1989-90 Musik i Västmanland. Scentekniker, bl a sjumånadsturne´r i länet med många riksbekanta musiker och artister.Musikskolan Västerås vikariat1994-97 NBV Halmstad verksamhet bl a på I 16 och kriminalvårdsanstalten1994-97 TBV Halmstad 1999vt Kulturskolan Halmstad ca 90% av hel tjänst, elgitarr, -bas, ensemble1999-00 Kulturskolan Laholm tillfälliga vikariat.2003-05 Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan (Halmstad) Laholm, Hylte, Oskarström
Annan musikrelaterad verksamhet under perioden 1980-1989caMusik- och ljudeffekter till amatörteateruppsättningar i Halmstad ("Spöksonaten", "Woyzek", "Den lärde och hans dotter", diktcollage "Krig och fred"). Gitarrist i ungersk/jugoslavisk dans- och festorkester (2-3år). Spelade med chilenska invandrarmusiker (ca 2år), bl a "indianmusik". Spelade med trubaduren Jose Barba (fr.Spanien), bl a flera ggr i Stockholm (vår första spelning tillsammans inför publik var i direktsänd SVT). Ett antal närradioprogram, bl a med Leif Isebring, språkliga improvisationer över temat "All världens folkmusik". Medarbetare i boken, kapitlet om historia i "Spela elgitarr", samt modell för de tecknade händerna (Alvaro Pinto, bokförlaget Spektra). Elbasist i några år med "Attan Jazz band". Med som en av gitarristerna i speciella orkestern till Halmstadkören Collegium Musicums Greklandsturne´.
Annan musikrelaterad verksamhet under perioden 1980-1989caMusik- och ljudeffekter till amatörteateruppsättningar i Halmstad ("Spöksonaten", "Woyzek", "Den lärde och hans dotter", diktcollage "Krig och fred"). Gitarrist i ungersk/jugoslavisk dans- och festorkester (2-3år). Spelade med chilenska invandrarmusiker (ca 2år), bl a "indianmusik". Spelade med trubaduren Jose Barba (fr.Spanien), bl a flera ggr i Stockholm (vår första spelning tillsammans inför publik var i direktsänd SVT). Ett antal närradioprogram, bl a med Leif Isebring, språkliga improvisationer över temat "All världens folkmusik". Medarbetare i boken, kapitlet om historia i "Spela elgitarr", samt modell för de tecknade händerna (Alvaro Pinto, bokförlaget Spektra). Elbasist i några år med "Attan Jazz band". Med som en av gitarristerna i speciella orkestern till Halmstadkören Collegium Musicums Greklandsturne´.
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