.Saw where someone is getting back into gigging... I've not played a 'gig' since before Covid. BUT - my wife has started playing bass again and I
have been playing guitar at church since 'mid Covid.' It's been a lot of
fun, and VERY worthwhile! We had homecoming last Sunday and we, along
with some others, did the entire music service. Piano player played on
some, different people sung, etc. Was VERY nice to get behind a microphone
for an extended time like that again. :-)




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On 8/20/2021 9:43 AM, JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to ALL:

.Saw where someone is getting back into gigging... I've not played a 'gig' since before Covid. BUT - my wife has started playing bass again and I
have been playing guitar at church since 'mid Covid.' It's been a lot of fun, and VERY worthwhile! We had homecoming last Sunday and we, along
with some others, did the entire music service. Piano player played on
some, different people sung, etc. Was VERY nice to get behind a microphone for an extended time like that again. :-)

Glad you got back into music. Me too! I attended a concert put on by Marco Mendez
who is a world renowned organ and keyboard artist. I do his website for him and I am
part of his weekly "team" when he does his Zoom class. I let him know that I hadn't
played the organ during most of Covid.

When I got home, I started playing again. I even had my wife text him to let him know
I started back playing again. At the same time, I knew that there was an upcoming
event at my local music store where I could play one song for the group and I wanted to
select a song that no one else would have ever selected.

My choice was "Time To Say Goodbye". Wow! I picked probably the most difficult song
because it uses a lot of flats, then goes to a key change that uses C, F and G sharps.

Surprisingly, I mastered it and got a standing ovation. I have been playing the organ
since 1963 and love to play. I kiddingly told the group that I tried to get Sarah Brighton
and Bocelli to accompany me, but they never returned my text.

Anyway, I am back playing and enjoying it a great deal. Hope you enjoy it as much as I
do.

Mike Dippel

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Mike,

My choice was "Time To Say Goodbye". Wow! I picked probably the most difficult song because it uses a lot of flats, then goes to a key
change that uses C, F and G sharps.

I remember when I took Music Theory in college, they had a pnemonic (sp?)
on how to remember the key signatures.

First, every major key, has a corresponding minor key equivalent...which puts a bit of a spooky feel to it. Or, you could do like Charles Ives did, with his choral rendition of Psalm 67 -- the women were in C Major, but the men were in G Minor...apparently he loved dissonance for his tonalities...
and apparently, the more horrible sounding, the better he liked it.

Back to key signatures, depending on flats or sharps, the other one had
them in reverse, as follows:

Flats: B E A D G C F - Big Elephants Always Do Grand Colossal Feats

Sharps: F C G D A E B - Fat Cows Go Down And Eat Barley

And, usually the more "accidentals" in it (instead of C Major or A Minor),
it got more difficult. I remember being in handbell choir in college (I was
"a dead ringer for a ding-a-ling <G>"), but we rang "Carol Of The Bells" in F-Sharp Major.

While I still do Gospel Poetry, when I was putting music to it (basically chordal improvisation), my favorite was D-Flat Major, using the pentatonic scale (5 notes, the black keys). Ironically, that's what many of the Negro Spirituals were based on.

The most well known as penned by a former ship captain, who was a slave trader, named John Newton...who after he became a Christian, wrote the
classic "Amazing Grace"...which was my late father's favorite hymn.

You can find that on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuQbJst4Lk

He notes that "The Negroes learned those 5 notes only. It was NOT
'Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do' -- that was someone else". <G>

My late wife's favorite was "Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus", and mine is "The Old Rugged Cross". The first time I heard that, I broke down and cried.

I loved watching these virtuoso pianists playing a piece, then change the
key signature to D-Flat, and work up and down the keys. The late Anthony Berger, as well as Dino Kartsonakas (sp?) would effortless work up and down
the keyboard with Gospel Music. On the "secular side", I think of Emily Bear...who started playing piano when she was a toddler (the same with
Anthony Berger). Yet, some of these folks truly have "the gift".

As for singing, I had sung in choirs in church, high school, and college,
for over 30 years...but my health won't let me do it anymore.

My favorite now is the a cappella (without accompaniment) Barbershop and Beautyshop Quartets. There is a group called "Lunch Break", who did a deal called "Old MacDonald Had A Deformed Farm", and the "critters" there were
a scream. You can find that at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea2WYe-sTFE

I would advise you to empty your bladder, not be eating or drinking, etc. before viewing this...or you'll have a mess on your hands. <G>

Daryl

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Way to go Mike!

On 8/26/2021 5:28 PM, Mike Dippel wrote to JIMMY
ANDERSON:

On 8/20/2021 9:43 AM, JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to

ALL:

.Saw where someone is getting back into gigging...

I've not played a 'gig'

since before Covid. BUT - my wife has started

playing bass again and I

have been playing guitar at church since 'mid

Covid.' It's been a lot of

fun, and VERY worthwhile! We had homecoming

last Sunday and we, along

with some others, did the entire music service.

Piano player played on

some, different people sung, etc. Was VERY nice to

get behind a microphone

for an extended time like that again. :-)

Glad you got back into music. Me too! I attended a

concert put on by Marco Mendez

who is a world renowned organ and keyboard artist.

I do his website for him and I am

part of his weekly "team" when he does his Zoom

class. I let him know that I hadn't

played the organ during most of Covid.

When I got home, I started playing again. I even had

my wife text him to let him know

I started back playing again. At the same time, I

knew that there was an upcoming

event at my local music store where I could play one

song for the group and I wanted to

select a song that no one else would have ever

selected.

My choice was "Time To Say Goodbye". Wow! I

picked probably the most difficult song

because it uses a lot of flats, then goes to a key

change that uses C, F and G sharps.

Surprisingly, I mastered it and got a standing ovation.

I have been playing the organ

since 1963 and love to play. I kiddingly told the

group that I tried to get Sarah Brighton

and Bocelli to accompany me, but they never

returned my text.

Anyway, I am back playing and enjoying it a great

deal. Hope you enjoy it as much as I

do.

Mike Dippel

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