Grimalkin

The Fox and the Grapes... It's not just a pub... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes It's what we're famous for.

As crisp as you like. I've always liked Jaco's right hand attack consistency, very even consistent flow.

It's nothing new: "His violin technique, based on that of his works, principally the Capricci, the violin concertos, and the sets of variations, demanded a wide use of harmonics and pizzicato effects, new methods of fingering and even of tuning. In performance he improvised brilliantly. He was also a flamboyant showman who used trick effects such as severing one or two violin strings and continuing the piece on the remaining strings." https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Paganini "The Devil's Violinist" Paganini, was said to have deliberately composed his pieces to be so technically difficult to play, that he would have a monopoly on performing them. If you're selling a solo show I suppose you have to keep the attention.

It depends on how you use the techniques, but I'd rather have them than not.

Rubber Soul was the turning point: "By the time they released Rubber Soul in late ’65, fans were listening to an entirely different band, and it was no coincidence. George called the album was “the first one where we were fully-fledged potheads." https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-beatles-album-george-harrison-said-was-a-full-fledged-pothead-record.html/

Dylan played a part in the radical change in musical direction on 28th Aug 1964: "Brian and The Beatles looked at each other apprehensively. “We’ve never smoked marijuana before,” Brian finally admitted. Dylan looked disbelievingly from face to face. “But what about your song?” he asked. “The one about getting high?” The Beatles were stupefied. “Which song?” John managed to ask. Dylan said, “You know…” and then he sang, “and when I touch you I get high, I get high…” John flushed with embarrassment. “Those aren’t the words,” he admitted. “The words are, ‘I can’t hide, I can’t hide, I can’t hide…'” https://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/08/28/bob-dylan-turns-the-beatles-on-to-cannabis/#:~:text=On 28 August 1964 the,Avenue%2C near Manhattan's Central Park.

Needs more cowbell.

If you don't have good alternation together, it will always be a struggle. Alternating while crossing strings is difficult, but that's the kind of ability you should want. Many unsurprisingly, find Rocco's lines hard to play, he was a proponent of strict alternation, if you are raking them, that's going to be hard work if you can do it authentically at all. Raking comes naturally, strict alternation does not. Nothing comes for nothing...

As far as ear training and interval recognition, from what I can gather, if I gave you a root note and asked you to sing me a perfect 5th interval above it, that would probably be a problem. If you remembered that a perfect 5th interval is the first two notes of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", you could probably sing the interval quite easily. Interval recognition through familiarity, you can find your own tunes but here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_recognition Something you can do without a bass.

Learn the chords/scales that are built from each degree of the Major scale, usually referred to as Modes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(music) Then use the numbering system to simplify the information, A V(5) chord in the key of G major, is known as D7 as notated, or Mixolydian as a mode, or the V chord of G Major. Once you've established the key, use the numbering system. The most common jazz turnaround is a II/V/l, so you can see how communicating that information is much quicker in number form: https://www.activemelody.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Chord-Numbering-System.pdf

It's helpful if you can connect your product to a movement: “The principles underlying propaganda are extremely simple. Find some common desire, some widespread unconscious fear or anxiety; think out some way to relate this wish or fear to the product you have to sell; then build a bridge of verbal or pictorial symbols over which your customer can pass from fact to compensatory dream, and from the dream to the illusion that your product, when purchased, will make the dream come true. They are selling hope." Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Revisited. Like marketing The Spice Girls as a cause for feminism. Purchase a Spice Girls product and support feminism...

The conformity of individualism. It's exactly what they're suppose to be against. That's what Rotten meant... Commodified herd mentality.

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

“Punks don’t like to hear it but they and Mrs. Thatcher were both on the coattails of something bigger, which was the rise of individualism where we could be whatever we wanted to be,” he explains. “The Sex Pistols’ song ‘I Wanna Be Me’ came at the same time as a speech by Mrs. Thatcher that had pretty much the same message." Adam Curtis.

A pop song about dystopian utopian fascism, based on Brave New World.

There are a few Brexit tracks but I won't post those. It that must not be named.

Much of the anger has either dissolved into depression or is projected onto "others". Then you have the culture and normalisation of pathological narcissism, 'The Century of the Self', so that is obviously going to produce lean results. Just as the last of the native Indians were kept quiet on reservations with rough whiskey and baubles and bangles, we took to the comforters too... https://www.highexistence.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-huxley-vs-orwell/ “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous Huxley - Brave New World.

The problem is your right hand technique, work on alternating, or try and do it the hard way...

Capitalist indoctrination.. "So all I wanted in the end Was world domination and a whole lot of money to spend Everything I touch, everything I see, fame and fortune, immortality Well that's not much to ask, its really not..."

EHX Bass Clone. Having a bass and treble eq on the pedal makes all the difference I've found.

Not recent, but very prescient. When the liveable planet goes, none of it will mean spit. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/world-close-to-irreversible-climate-breakdown-warn-major-studies

There was a track doing the rounds called "A Plague Upon Your House." It was about someone's post getting disliked on Facebook.

Right hand technique needs more alternating, doubling back on the same finger won't help with timing. Thumb too high at the back of the neck, taking the span and reach away at the front. Bit grippy.

Muse - We Are F*****g F****d.