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Showing posts with label guitar. Show all posts

Why Don't We Repeal and Replace tRUMP's Tax Cut for the Rich Law? It's the Main Cause of the Federal Deficit! We Could Afford Nice things if Super Rich People Paid Taxes!

Trumpanzees are Doomed to Lose a Civil War. There are Plenty of Empty Jail Cells Just a Waiting for QuackAnon Freaks to Fill 'em UP.  Even Empty Greene says: Stand Down Mindless Vegetables!
Maybe Going Insane to Protect Trump from Incarceration is NOT a Brilliant Plan! We arrested over a Thousand People when Trump Failed to Overthrow the USA and Crown Himself King on January 6th... LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES!
empty greene says civil war cancelled - stand down mindless vegetables

and then SG Said on FaceBorg:
“Patriotic Millionaires”: I believe Facebook is Basically Censoring what I’ve Posted about these Posts from “Patriotic Millionaires”: “ “We’ve discussed before why high levels of inequality are a problem for our economy: it hurts GDP growth and social mobility and is associated with poor social outcomes, e.g. lower life expectancy, more crime, and more mental illness. But there’s another reason why we should care that so much wealth in America is concentrated in so few hands: it destabilizes our democracy.” Facebook said one of my Posts goes against “ Community Standards” But they won’t tell me which Post? After I asked which one, they made it so no one will see The Post except me! Am guessing they don’t want Americans to see the Strangle Hold the “Rich and Powerful” ( The Truth)Have on Americans, don’t know for sure Facebook won’t tell me which post! As Zuckerberg is one of The Powerful Rich Americans! You might not see this Post! For Help please like to see if these posts are being censored!


Be Woke Meme

Crazy Laws - Citizens United meme

Dog Tag meme

No Brains No Service Cartoon

Cartoon - Ron Death Santa - Slavery was Excellent!

Slavery was an Excellent Learning Experience

Welcome to New Mexico Sign

another "WOKE" meme

My Best Posts - These are What The People Have decided are The Best. READ MORE:
1. Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Germany - in the Village of Lützerath - (Updated 4/23/2022) The village has long been doomed to disappear to allow the gigantic Garzweiler open-pit lignite mine to expand further.
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/tree-sitters-protest-lignite-coal-mine.html




Swimming in Upper Bidwell Park - Chico, CA

2. My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born March 19th, 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We moved to Los Gatos - 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood...

Then I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html



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Link: the Highest Selling Gear on my
Zazzle Gregvan Giftshop -
This is What the People Want
https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?st=Orders <--- Link to My Store!


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3. What Ever Happened to Trump's Phony Middle Class Tax Cut? This Blog Post was Written in October of 2018... Things Have Gotten Worse Since Then... Congress is in recess until after the midterm elections and cannot pass any new tax laws before November begins.

Trump's Tax Cut for The Rich Failed to Collect Enough Money and the Entire Country is on the Verge of Bankruptcy... Defaulting on our Debt... 10/1/2021... and the "Middle Class Tax Cut" was temporary... and NOW, Taxes are Higher on the 99% and Lower for the Top 1%... READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/phony-middle-class-tax-congress-is-in.html



4. Joe Biden is President. No Longer is there a Need to EXORCISE The White House... GOOD TRIUMPHED OVER EVIL... Here is a Post from Long Ago During The Dark Ages...

EXORCISM at the WHITE HOUSE. A Million Patriots Need To Surround it and Demand That Trump RESIGN NOW! JOIN US For A Spiritual Healing Ceremony... Spread The Word!


Beat the Drums, Blow A Whistle, Burn Some Sage, Chant, Sing and Dance All Day and All Night Until The EVIL ONE IS DRIVEN OUT... MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE!
If You Cannot Come To Washington DC, Stage an Exorcism in Your Own Home Town.


Ask Yourself: "What Would Abbie Hoffman DO?"
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-million-people-need-to-surround-white.html


5. SADLY THIS POST FAILED: #MoscowMitch Won Anyway... Amy McGrath for Senate in Kentucky... Beat #MoscowMitch! He is a Corrupt TrumpNik Obeying His Master, Vladimir Putin - Register and Vote! Throw OUT the Corrupt Old White Men. Like and Share Her Website Address Worldwide! Campaign For Amy on Social Media...
READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/10/amy-mcgrath-for-senate-in-kentucky-beat.html
6. Photos of Chico, California... Bidwell Park, Butte Creek Canyon and Big Al's Drive in Restaurant on The Esplanade... and My Memories of Going to College there in 1973... Then I Went Back in the Late 1990s... SEE MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/chico-california-bidwell-park-butte.html

7. RAINBOW GATHERING 2021: Photographs of the Gathering Near Taos, New Mexico...
SEE MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/06/rainbow-gathering-2021-location-map-to.html This event Has Passed.


For Info About This Summer's Gathering in Colorado on July 1-7 Use THIS Link: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/02/rainbow-gathering-2022-colotado-july-1.html Specific Location to be Announced on June 15th... With Maps and Driving Directions... Ignore all rumors of cancellation or organization!




Drumming at the Marimba Tent -
California Rainbow Gathering 2004


8. Mariia Butina: Russian Arrested in USA for failure to Register as a Foreign Agent: She Was Accused for Infiltrating NRA and Setting up Secret Back Channel for Financing Republicans. Eventually she was arrested, convicted and served time in US Prison... Then She Was Released, Moved Back to Russia and was Given a Hero's Welcome... READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/russian-arrested-in-usa-for-failure-to.html



9. TrumpNiks® FAIL TO ATTEND - "Justice for J6" Rally in Washington DC on 9/18/2021 was a TOTAL WIMPOUT! ... They Truly Missed the OPPORTUNITY to Get FREE ROOM AND BOARD in America's Prison System... Like the January Sixth Insurrectionists Did... We LOCKED 'EM UP! READ MORE!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/09/here-is-another-opportunity-for.html



10. FREE Chart of Where the Notes Are on the Guitar and Piano. Print As Many Copies as You Like and Give 'em to Friends... and... many other Free Coloring Book Drawings... FREE!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-chart-of-where-notes-are-on-guitar.html






11. FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Crayons... Make as Many Copies as You Like... Thanks!
More Art at Google Image Search=gvan42
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/01/portrait-of-american-indian-wearing.html










Now that I've read Brian Eno's List of great books...


I'll have to write my own list!
In no particular order...


The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,
1984 by George Orwell,
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,
The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,
One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,
My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,
Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,
The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,
America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Island by Aldous Huxley,
Foundation by Isaac Asimov,
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,
You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,
The Time Machine by HG Wells,
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne,
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,
Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol,
The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum,
Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (and Everything
else he wrote),
The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,
The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,
The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay,
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,
Dune by Frank Herbert,
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,
#France1789 by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,
The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),
Still Here by Ram Dass,
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,
Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.


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Play Music on the Porch Day 8/26/2023

 

Play Music on the Porch Day 8/26/2023 - I'm IN!

https://playmusicontheporchday.com/

So far Play Music on the Porch Day will be happening in over 1200 locations, in over 25 Countries around the world! Help us grow by tagging any musicians you know, or any musicians who inspire you!
#music #porchfest #porchmusicfest #internationalmusic #worldmusic #oud #guitar #sitar #dotar #tar #zither #lute #singer #songwriter #slideguitar #fingerstyle #indonesianmusic #bassguitar #uke #ukelele #ukeleletutorial #berlin #tokyo #harare

Earth at the Doctor... You've Got a Bad Case of the Humans - cartoon


Biff Rose plays the Mighty Kurzeill - Alien Supremacy - Album Cover Cartoon


Instrumental Music by 
Biff Rose on the Mighty Kurzweill... 
and
Mostly Piano sounds...
and 
Outer Space!
and
Swinging Progressive Jazz... 

Talking... excellent but, WHO IS JOE???

Even More Talking by Biff... World Trade Organization Protests

Painting of Biff Rose



On FaceBorg I Read:
A message of empathy to guitarists when it comes to learning music theory...🙏

It's totally normal to be confused at times. Unlike the piano, the guitar was not designed for an efficient overlap with how theory is constructed!

The guitar was designed for open chords to be easy to play with full-sounding voicings. It's a culture. It's about singing tunes around a campfire with friends or jamming in a garage... It's relatively easy to pick up and the first few open chords are accessible to strum. But the moment you start wanting to go a bit deeper, things get kind of confusing...

Just look at an open E major. It's one of the first chords you learn as a guitarist. It's a triad! Yet you play 6 strings on the guitar when you play an open E major 🤔.

Yes... but that's because notes repeat. Got it! So, what are the notes of this voicing from bottom to top? E, G#, B, E, G#, B? NOPE! Because the notes are actually NOT in that order. Sorry. It's E, B, E, G#, B, E.

🎸🎹And look at the fretboard! And how the notes are laid out. On the piano the easiest way to learn a chord or a scale is not to use shapes, it's to learn the notes of the scale, and THEN, just play those notes on the keyboard. It's easier to think of notes which implicitly require learning the theory behind scales first!

On the guitar, a shape is definitely your best option if you want to play quickly and not step 4 hours finding the notes on the fretboard. So you learn shapes and forget about the reason behind them or their notes. I get it!
So many things stack up against the guitarist in their quest to make sense of what is going on, even with the best intentions!

I get why you would give up and just play without thinking about it. I did that too. But I promise you that there is a way to learn theory efficiently in a way that makes sense. It doesn't have to take long, and when you get to the other side, your instrument and music, in general, will open up in a way that's hard to envision.

So if you're motivated to learn theory, or re-motivated after a long break, GOOD FOR YOU! You won't regret it. And don't feel bad if you find it confusing. Theory is not difficult, but it often IS for guitarists, and that's okay.

and then SG Replied:
I often avoid using theory for lessons for this reason. More often than not, it seems to confuse people. I could definitely see how theory is more easy to visualize and approaching on piano. When I explain triads to more intermediate students, I generally use the piano to show it.

and then SOD Said:
Theory is theory. It is applied differently on a piano than guitar. It is applied differently again on a flute or the bagpipes. But it is not harder.
That E Major triad is the same across every instrument. The easiest way for a beginner to play it on guitar is the way you have described but that does not make the concept any more difficult.
If I'm trying to figure out chords on guitar I am certainly guided by scales rather than shapes and I imagine any semi-serious guitarist would be the same.
The guitar originated in Spain early in the 16th century, so I think it's probably a bit of a stretch to say it was designed for open chords (but happy to be corrected).
I think where many piano players do have an advantage is that their learning is structured from a very early stage so they learn basic concepts (correctly) and can then apply those concepts to an understanding of more complicated ideas.

free chart - guitar piano notes


Trump's A Danger to Self and Others. Police Code 5150 - Music Video: The Lock Him Up and Throw Away the Key Blues!



and here's a Buncha MEMES for you to Share Worldwide! Just Pirate the Image and Post on Social Media... Remember: Putin Proved that Campaigning Online Works... His Puppet Won the Electoral College in 2016... Sure, Hillary Got More Votes but With our Rigged Electoral College System, Even a Loser Can Win!

How does a Bill become a Law? BRIBERY! Cartoon

Jack Smith Quote: One set of Laws - meme

GOP Hypocrite - fake law and order party cartoon

The Criminal is Going Down and Taking the GOP with him - cartoon

WOKE: Being Aware of Reality

Plans for the Fall - painting meme

Empty Green shows nude photos of Melania Trump to Congress

Forbidden Artwork... Not for Sale on my Zazzle Gregvan Store

Beware: Hackers are Now Using QUEER CODES to Steal Money

Ron Death Santa Lied: Slavery did not benefit slaves - meme

"What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican Party? I’ll tell you what they did. Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things, every one. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor." - Lawrence O'Donnell

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