Re: [Harp-L] "Train Time" tab?

[Kevin <kham27@xxxxxxxxx>]

i am just curious. Why would one need to drink or smoke for train time? Its
easy to pick up... it might get more mysterious this way...

hehe just having fun...

On 14 April 2015 at 06:05, paul hoffman <phoff45@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why would I need a tab? Well, as Robert said at one point "a guideline".
> Sure there are obvious parts, but, for me there are also not so obvious
> parts. I work a lot of hours and it's handy to have a piece of paper folded
> in my pocket if I get a few minutes here and there. Maybe I'll just smoke a
> fatty, make some train sounds and call it a day.....oh yeah, I don't
> smoke...guess I'll drink.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 13, 2015, at 11:22 PM, "Robert Laughlin" <
> harmonicaman1968@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Train Time
> >
> > Bu dup, buhhh, de bud up buhhh, de bud up buhhh, de bud up buhhhh, de
> bud up,,,
> >
> > (oh, no, that was "Spoonful",,)
> >
> > Bu dup,, bu dup,, bu dup,, bu dup,, bu dup,, bu dup,, bu dup,,
> >
> > (That's the one)
> >
> > I've listened to that many times, had the album when it came out. Jack
> Bruce's playing, especially the more rhythmically challenging pieces like
> "Train Time" were evasive, since it involved a lot of "diaphragmatic
> pulsations" (I call them), and I just didn't have the gut strength at that
> point. Later, yeah. : *
> >
> > Work, work, work = Results, results, results
> >
> > It all seems so "rhythmically instinctive" to Bruce to play in that
> style, as his typical modus operandi involves expending a lot of energy
> onstage, impressing the sheetzola out of teenaged me, when I first heard it.
> >
> > I can hardly imagine anyone but the most technically-minded (seems to be
> quite a few of those around here) being able, or interested for that
> matter, in reducing that pulse of life named Jack Bruce to mere tablature.
> It all seemed so frantic, spastic, impulsive/intuitive as to evade facile
> description.
> >
> > (I exaggerate. Where there's a will, there's a way. Anyway, written
> recordings of musical pieces are, for the most part, merely a guideline,
> not fully able to convey the moment-to-moment subtleties of feeling and
> sensitivities which could never be captured in such a simple and somewhat
> limited, symbolic format.)
> >
> > Hmm,,I'm beginning to sound like a "rootist", or some other sort of
> musical snobbery. Hmm,,
> >
> > I would have imagined at the time that he had just gone backstage and
> had a couple of tokes on some funny cigarette. I'm still wondering about
> that today,,
> >
> > But I'm certain that taking things apart, piece by piece, is often
> helpful. For instance, just practicing the opening is great for the lungs,
> the diaphragm, and that six-pack you always wanted,,haha.
> >
> > Good luck finding those magic tabs, the ones that give life to the music
> and flesh out the artist behind it all.
> >
> > Robert, master of saying not much at all in so many words,,lol
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul hoffman" <phoff45@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 6:53 PM
> > Subject: [Harp-L] "Train Time" tab?
> >
> >
> >> Hi all,    Anyone have or know where to find a tab for Cream's train
> time? Thanks, Paul
> >
> >
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