Re: learning to play perfectly to a click track

[Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net>]

> Sound never becomes light.  Sound is kinetic energy and light is
> electromagnetic energy.
>
> http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/light/spectrum.html
>
> I've done the pulse to pitch experiment and it's interesting, but I
> don't really think it has a lot to do with being able to keep tempo.
> As far as that is concerned, you've just got to practice practice
> practice... and being able to hear everyone in the group.

Hey Marky Mark! Seems James Lampheer has the goods to deliver the "all is
one" argument (see his thread "Sound DOES Become Light..."). But I'm taking
my asbestos suit out of the closet and relearning Johnny Cash's "Ring of
Fire" anyway...... ;-)
    My point re. "rhythm is pich made slow" is that just as one might use 
an
electronic tuner to improve one's sense of pitch and make oneself more
sensitive to subtle variations in pitch, so one might use a metronome to
improve one's sense of rhythm. Electronic tuners generate a reliable
standard of pitch; metronomes generate a reliable standard of rhythm. We 
may
"tune" our tuning chops just as we may "tune" our rhythmic chops. Drummers
who think that metronomes make their playing too stiff belong in bands with
guitarists who think that tuners make their guitars too stale. And rhythm 
is
pitch made slow...
    And the universe is the manifestation of one vibration. Maya is one 
huge
overtone series, of which we get to experience one little pie-slice. All is
bliss, all is bliss...................
Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
coyotelk@optonline.net