ripock
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My chutney with the added sweetness of apple and pineapple was a great success. The chicken wasn't so hot, literally. I have a bad habit of being too casual with meat and heat. Part of this emanates from the fact that I like my meat fairly close to raw and partly because I primarily cook plants which aren't so picky when it comes to heat and doneness. I already know the solution. I inherited a meat thermometer from my wife's mother some 30 years ago...but I just forget to use it.
Speaking of pineapple and apple, that reminds me of a strum pattern that I learned years ago. I believe it is one of those andalusian/flamenco strums and it has a very definitive stress pattern. It is eleven-beats (or just shy of a measure and a half in 8th notes). You just strum up and down...but when you strum you recite to yourself "pineapple pineapple pineapple apple" and you stress the stroke that is on the beginning of the word and de-emphasize the other strokes. Here's what i mean:
down: PINE (stress)
up: ap
down: ple
up: PINE (stress)
down: ap
up: ple
down: PINE (stress)
up: ap
down: ple
up: AP (stress)
down: ple
This strum pattern makes it possible to take something hackneyed like a blues progression or a jazz sequence and create something new with the 11/16 time signature. Sometimes I alter the pattern with a note in anacrusis between the final Apple and the beginning Pineapple. It kind of gives it a punchy triplet ending.
I had been playing a rumba strum just for some variety and serendipitously stumbled across a variation. It has some added percussion and right now it is difficult to wrap my head around it because it is totally screwing up my muscle memory (or as my students would say: "it is literally screwing up my muscle memory." They love dropping a literally into a sentence because they think it makes them sound smart but it literally makes no sense. After all how can a percussive beat literally screw something up; it has no hands or arms or any means by which to actualize a screwing motion).
Here are the 8 beats of the rumba variation:
downstroke (stress)
upstroke
mute/strike the strings with the medial phlanges of your loosely formed fist
fling fingers out (stress)
tap fingers onto treble side of soundboard
upstroke
downstroke (stress)
upstroke
You see, it isn't too difficult. What's difficult is playing it really fast and consistent so that you get that undulating rhythm.
Speaking of pineapple and apple, that reminds me of a strum pattern that I learned years ago. I believe it is one of those andalusian/flamenco strums and it has a very definitive stress pattern. It is eleven-beats (or just shy of a measure and a half in 8th notes). You just strum up and down...but when you strum you recite to yourself "pineapple pineapple pineapple apple" and you stress the stroke that is on the beginning of the word and de-emphasize the other strokes. Here's what i mean:
down: PINE (stress)
up: ap
down: ple
up: PINE (stress)
down: ap
up: ple
down: PINE (stress)
up: ap
down: ple
up: AP (stress)
down: ple
This strum pattern makes it possible to take something hackneyed like a blues progression or a jazz sequence and create something new with the 11/16 time signature. Sometimes I alter the pattern with a note in anacrusis between the final Apple and the beginning Pineapple. It kind of gives it a punchy triplet ending.
I had been playing a rumba strum just for some variety and serendipitously stumbled across a variation. It has some added percussion and right now it is difficult to wrap my head around it because it is totally screwing up my muscle memory (or as my students would say: "it is literally screwing up my muscle memory." They love dropping a literally into a sentence because they think it makes them sound smart but it literally makes no sense. After all how can a percussive beat literally screw something up; it has no hands or arms or any means by which to actualize a screwing motion).
Here are the 8 beats of the rumba variation:
downstroke (stress)
upstroke
mute/strike the strings with the medial phlanges of your loosely formed fist
fling fingers out (stress)
tap fingers onto treble side of soundboard
upstroke
downstroke (stress)
upstroke
You see, it isn't too difficult. What's difficult is playing it really fast and consistent so that you get that undulating rhythm.