Vince Guaraldi

[Reconsiderate]

Hey!

You and me are pals, and so I want to do things for you selflessly & generously. And how can I do that? Well, as a musician, I make songs for you of course!

I've got a nice little stack of sheet music that I cover on my computer. I do it all up with synthesizers and what have you... and I've just uploaded a few! (Music Forte link in my sig) One song in particular is a classic jazz song that you might like. Linus & Lucy from the Charlie Brown cartoon!

Yes! (I have yet to meet a person who isn't overjoyed upon hearing this.)

Enjoy, buddy!

[christineanderson]

RE: Vince Guaraldi

I always loved his music, Reconsiderate! I can close my eyes and picture the little Peanuts kids skating around on the ice rink, and Charlie Brown's poor little Christmas tree that wilted under the weight of a single little bulb. Poor Charlie Brown. LoLoLoL.

Thanks for putting up the song!!! Maybe someone'll talk me into playing it live one day........ hmmm!!!!

Christine Anderson
www.christineanderson.net

[Cybersonica]

I admire Vince Guaraldi immensely.
i still have, buried in my piles of sheet music, a simplified songbook of peanuts songs including "Linus and Lucy" , "Skating" , "Failure Face" , and "Bus-Wheel Blues" - I really got my first taste of the #9 and 13th dominant chords from "Bus-Wheel Blues".
Just last week I borrowed the a peanuts songbook from the library - I't's great! - I just gotta keep remembering to renew it so the library police don't come down on me.

[mobilehomeboy]

You guys REALLY use that stuff? I had that crap crammed down my throat for 8 years, while earning my National and State winner certificates for classical piano. (Piano Guild, you know the drill...)

Yuk.

Maybe I'll be featured ON some sheet music some day, but as far as that whole thing went, well, you know. Didn't help me write songs at all........ Just to play what other people wrote.

Which is cool if you want to be a cover "artist".

But I'd rather forge new shizola than to have to conform to the relentless technical, theoretical, and metronomic confines of another's creation.

Word?

Word.....

[Cybersonica]

[mobilehomeboy]

Aha,

Touche. Finally someone to give me some BACK.

Lol. Isn't it funny how a little honesty can inspire?

TY for the input, good to have some TRUE direction on stuff.

[Reconsiderate]

[mobilehomeboy]

The reason I do write 4/4, straight time stuff is just that. It's NOT technical, the sheer beauty of all this IS the simplicity.

That's the essence of the "Mobile Home Boy" project: simplicity. Minimalism, almost.

Sure, I can wank huge solos and have every "Dream Theatre" song down pat. But that's just the point. The point is keeping the time, the point is in the TIGHTNESS, the simple elegance and beauty of melody and function, it's not in the shredding. Shred died in the 80's.

I'm trying to create that new sound, and it's not "commercial" because it DOESN'T sound like everything that's on the radio. I'm also slowly becoming masterful at the functionality of the song, and how they can become "catchy". It just works for me that way.

And I'm not gonna sit here and LIE about it, hell, I WANT to sell out, lol. Why WOULDN'T I want to be the best I can be, right?


That being said, you're right. Maybe I should go ahead and experiment with some prog-sounding stuff in the mix. Couldn't hurt, right?

But on the other end of the stick, I don't want to be another Joe Satriani, or Yngwie Malmsteen, because there already ARE them in existence. And those guys play to musicians, not the regular guy.

They are more "Caviar and Champagne" where I'm more "Beer and Chili-cheese Fries".

Maybe I should've put a touch more thought into the previous post... just trying to explain that all the sheet music in the world DID help me technically, but artistically, I think it started to limit me to that world of must-shred vs. must-be-melodic and harmonious.

And, it was just my opinion.

Hope that more-well explains the comment.

And as far as Vince goes, I liked his stuff. He was the John Petrucci of his day. Very riffy.

But I still wish Charlie Brown woulda smacked Lucy one for pulling the ball away..........

[SamDrummerBoy]