Sen. Tim Scott says he's out

She's a daughter of immigrants who served in the Trump administration and didn't utter one syllable criticizing the boss for his anti-immigrant policies. To me, that's a waste of obvious talent. Maybe she does have a place in the Canadian Parliament, where being a "team player" is valued and independence is punished, even in "feminist" Cabinets (see "LavScam").
Also, I'm not in the market for "reasonable" Republicans. That's folks like Romney and Manchin. Well-meaning, intelligent, and honest, but still wrong.

 

I don't see Trump base voting for a Nimarata Randhawa. GOP might have lower competition for an ambitious minority, but if she wants to be a President one day, she's in the wrong party.

 

That was an awful thing. Brutal. Justin will carry the can on that affair for life - I hope. I like the money he sends me -- but liking him? ...Well, it's complicated.

 

You're referring to The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau?

 

Or Justin Bieber?

 

After I saw the way that Hillary Clinton was treated by the Republican misogynists' party in 2016, my thought was that perhaps we have a better chance for the first woman President to come from the Republican party?

 

Trudeau, of course. I was going to say Bieber is all yours, now, but he's not - quite. He and Hailey still maintain a $5 million (or more, now) Lakeside mansion here in Ontario. When they're not there - you'll likely find them in their OTHER mansion in Beverley Hills - the one they paid $28.4 million for.

I NEVER liked Bieber as a musician -- and still don't. You want him, Nosborne? Go knock on his door. Here's a complete list of all the doors he and Mrs. Bieber have ever owned, or lived behind, together. https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/real-estate/a36006763/justin-bieber-hailey-baldwin-homes-houses-real-estate/

The sort of very young musician I like is epitomized by Andreas Varady, a "Gypsy Jazz" guitarist. He was 13 and playing a Charlie Parker tune on guitar, when I first heard him. He's 26 now - 3 years younger than Justin Bieber, with about 200 times the musical talent - at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Varady

I think this is the first video I saw of Andreas - the one I referred to above. He was 13.



This is a bit about the tune, from Google: "Donna Lee" is a bebop jazz standard attributed to Charlie Parker, although Miles Davis has also claimed authorship. Written in A-flat, it is based on the chord changes of the jazz standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana". Happy listening!

 

200 times more musical talent than Justin Bieber doesn't sound all that good to me.

 

And a note just for you, Nosborne. Andreas was taught, starting at age 4, by his father, Ondre (Bandi) Varady - also a guitarist. He was taught to play by ear. His first tune was "Blue Bossa" - a jazz standard, written by Kenny Dorham ~ 1962.
Good article here, in Journal of Music: https://journalofmusic.com/listing/31-01-19/andreas-varady-trio

I remember reading a quote from Andreas when he was about 15: "I really only know two scales..." He probably knows more now - but he did a hell of a lot with those two, back then. Some Roma guitarists know theory and are Conservatory trained - and many aren't - but they all play miraculously. This info must sound very strange to a classical aficionado.

 

Okay - "200 times more musical talent than Bill Huffman," then. (Note: I've never heard Bill play.)

 

Well, knowing only two scales maybe isn't as restricted as it sounds. During the Meantone Era composers were pretty much stuck with six major and a paltry three minor keys out of dozens theoretically possible. There's plenty of harmonic content there.

 

Such composers included the Mozart family btw

 

Good to know. Thanks.

 

I thought the Mean Tone era was the 1980s - Death Metal Bands like these:
https://www.google.com/search?q=death+metal+bands&oq=Death+metal+bands

Oh - Meantone - one word. Yeah - sorry.

 

Yeah - I guess there is. Three minor scales for each of those three keys - natural, harmonic and melodic. They actually taught us this kind of stuff in elementary school music class , here. I remember learning it - I was about 12. That was 1955 - grade 8. They don't do that, any more, generally. My one jazz-playing grandson (15) is the exception. He was in a "gifted" program.

And the six majors - that's 42 possible scales if you count modes. And if you play guitar, you can change the key of one closed-string scale by position - sliding the same scale up or down the fingerboard. So yeah -- lots of possibilities. Thanks.

 

What makes the Mozarts interesting to me is that old Leopold taught his kids to tune keyboards in something close to 6th comma meantone (not easy by ear) but this was AFTER JS Bach wrote Well Tempered Clavier and got into his famous argument with Silbermann. Not everyone was sold on well temperaments let alone equal temperament.

 

These days I'm playing the two easiest Chopin Preludes and I have no choice but to set the old digital piano on equal temperament. Chopin spends a lot of time noodling around the bottom of the Circle of Fifths where any other tuning is badly out of tune.

 

There's an F## diminished chord. G key of course but G and F## are the same note ONLY in equal temperament. Chopin’s piano tuner killed himself. Seems logical...

 

Maybe. Probably others would have killed their boss. That would have been tragic, but understandable. These days, I think guitar techs have a really hard life. From their customers. I'd like to have the skills, but I wouldn't want the job. At any price.

 

The problem, as any guitarist knows, is that tuning correctly is mathematically and physically impossible. This seems to be Heaven's great cosmic joke on all of us.

I've been playing around with Pythagorean tuning lately. That's one of the menu options in my digital piano. Technically, there's only a slight narrowing of fifths from Pythagorean pure to equal temperament, too slight to detect by ear. Nevertheless, Pythagorean tuning sounds very different from equal temperament. I think that those genuine resonant Pythagorean fifths DO sound amazingly better.