I'm teaching myself piano!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
I tried to do it once before, and failed miserably, but I'm back to try my second hand at piano thanks to a few new learning tools I have. Why learn piano? Everybody says its so helpful with music theory, plus it goes well with guitar, and its just nice to have another creative outlet at my disposal.
Anyway, as I was saying, I have a few new tools:
1. Chewing Tobacco - Key to helping mind-numbing tasks go just a little bit faster. Actually, its a little-known fact that nicotine sharpens your mind while in your system, it helps you focus. Its true, look it up.
2. Baby's First Keyboard - It may not be much. But it didn't cost much either. And it gets the job done... sort of. I can pretty much only play one hand at a time, but I'm trying to improve on my note-reading too, so it isn't that big of a deal. I'll upgrade when I know I'm for real on this.
3. Internet Sheet Music, accompanied by The Pencil - After learning the basics of reading sheet music, I downloaded a few songs, long ones, to practice. Practice how? Write all the notes in. It sounds tedious, but if you have a passion for music, you really won't mind it much. I don't, anyway.
4. Computer and Internet - The internet rocks. Use a site like Musictheory.net to learn how to read, and then just google some sheet music. Its that simple :)
(click to enlarge)Happy learnin'
Posted byJoe at 5:51 PM 0 comments
Labels: keyboard, learn, music, nicotine, piano, self, self-taught, sheet, taught, teach, theory, tobacco, yourself
Red Man chewing tobacco
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Did you know, that it has been the leading brand in the chewing tobacco market since 1904? Fucking sweet. Old school shit. Everyone likes their Griz and their Cope. Both are dwarfed by the southern giant that is red man. Yeah yeah, like all chew, it still has carcinogens, and you will lose teeth, and eventually your jaw if you chew it. However, on a lighter note, it does NOT have fiberglass.
Red Man falls under the chewing tobacco category of "scrap" which is pure leaves dried, cured, then dipped into a sweet sugar-based molasses. Mmm mm mm.
"Joe chews red man, ask him if he don't"
read more at wikipedia.org
Posted byJoe at 2:24 PM 0 comments
Labels: 1904, chew, chewing, cope, griz, man, red, scrap, tobacco
