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By: Mexico Medical Student » Blog Archive » 5-Fingered by NPR!!

Mexico Medical Student » Blog Archive » 5-Fingered by NPR!! — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:05:33 +0000

[...] without anything, in their feature entitled “Playing Five Beats To The Measure.” My post entitled “5/4″ obviously is the victim of an NPR five-finger discount. Now it stands to reason with NPR [...]

By: alagrijma

alagrijma — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:50:36 +0000

5/4 my favorite compass, the soul of many craks in the progressive bands…si quieren escuchar unas bandas progresivas llenas de 5/4s mexicanas y otras internacionales vengan a queretaro el 14 y 15 de Junio al festivalternativo, es gratis!!!!!

By: dee

dee — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:22:29 +0000

Big 5 to you!

A great read. I don’t normally get through blogs, but yours I enjoyed. How can anyone not, especially when you compare life to musical meter.

Peace from Portland Oregon

By: Alexis Neves

Alexis Neves — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:25:03 +0000

Very nice site, i love it!

By: Cherry Picks (3.27.07) « the rumors were true

Cherry Picks (3.27.07) « the rumors were true — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:09:29 +0000

[...] I thought he had dropped off the face of the earth, but the Mexico Medical Student is back and blogging with the best post from last week’s Grand Rounds. 5/4 is so well put together, it makes me feel lazy. More great ranting by the PandaBear MD. [...]

By: herb

herb — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:01:33 +0000

Think prime numbers

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:20:28 +0000

Holy cow! That Holst piece ROCKED! And it was written in 1916, yet could be (and was, apparently) used in any modern film! It was, eerily familiar although I had never heard it before.

Thanks for providing the opportunity to hear it today!

(and I hope you are in good spirits! It’s always melancholy for me when my adult kids leave after Christmas. Even with one teenager left, the house is very quiet…)

By: Meghan

Meghan — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:28:36 +0000

Found you through Grand Rounds…wonderful entry! Thank you so much for including musical examples. I played bass clarinet on Mars in college and this piece just brought back some wonderful memories. This was such a fun piece to play. We played this piece as a part of our “John Williams” concert…easy to see why.

By: claudia

claudia — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:29:51 +0000

Amazing, when the hell did you have time to do this with our wonderful 10 month old that demands your attention?

Seriously, I am so impressed and I think…my pookie is so smart . I’m blown away. And I can’t believe Holst’s piece. He should’a sued.

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:24:12 +0000

I really enojyed the piece. Walking with a 5-beat in your head is more like dancing than stumbling, though, isn’t it? You know that the 1 is coming a little earlier than expected so you take the 4 and 5 just a little bit lighter. And even if everybody else only needs four steps to get to the next measure, that fifth step is really what makes a measure memorable and worthwhile.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:35:54 +0000

This was a really great post; you’re not doing so badly if you can pull together something like this.

Here’s hoping for the best on all fronts.

By: travelingdoc

travelingdoc — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:47:04 +0000

This is a wonderful piece. You are certainly using your time well. I couldn’t get but a second of the songs –bandwidth I think.–but recognize the artistry in the writing and pulling it all together.

By: enrico

enrico — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:13:17 +0000

Dr. S.: 4 against 5? Wow! Most people struggle in the beginning with 2 against 3–you clearly were a percussive prodigy! 4 against 5 is about as complex as it gets with “exact” accuracy. I’ve had to play 5 against 7, 10 against 6 (this is about finger figurations on the piano, one hand each with one set). For these, you basically start them together and get to the next common beat together, and just let the chips fall where they may as evenly as you can.

Regarding Claudia and baby leaving for the readers who are new/don’t remember my mentioning it, this trip was planned in advance to take care of business stateside. She wasn’t leaving me permanently (not yet, anyway), but it looks like it will be longer than I’d like. We’ll see.

By: Sid Schwab

Sid Schwab — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:39:08 +0000

“Take 5″ was a revelation to me when it came out. In college my freshman roomie was a musician who taught himself, then me, to pat out 5 on 4 on our thighs: five with the left hand, four with the right. I felt very accomplished, and do it whenever I hear the tune.

I’m sorry to hear about the one on zero situation. It’s a high price, indeed, for one’s dream.