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Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« on: March 01, 2015, 11:28:53 AM »
A simple, yet very broad theme this month, that you can interpret anyway you like; do something that you wouldn't normally do. That could be anything from (and not limited to) playing in a key you haven't really tried before (I still can't really do Dm on a D/G for example), singing, writing a tune, playing a type of music or style you don't normally play, crossing rows for the first time... or even, if you've never done it before, recording your first TOTM/ThOTM video or soundcloud file!

You don't have to be too wacky (though of course you can)... just enter into the spirit and choose something that stretches you a little beyond what you'd normally do, and that would be good.

Good luck!

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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2015, 09:03:45 PM »
You asked for it.....

http://youtu.be/Xnq1AwnfV6o
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2015, 09:56:27 PM »
That's wonderful Pikey, ha ha ha! but you have a cowboy on your left shoulder - shouldn't it be a parrot?
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2015, 09:20:09 AM »
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2015, 10:24:23 AM »
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2015, 10:30:58 AM »
Haha - trouble is Pikey, these are exactly the sort of things we'd expect from you! ;D ;)
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2015, 10:40:52 AM »
Quote from: Mcgrooger on March 02, 2015, 10:30:58 AM
Haha - trouble is Pikey, these are exactly the sort of things we'd expect from you! ;D ;)

Agreed  ::). Must try harder Pikey.
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2015, 06:29:41 PM »
Delilah backwards ?
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2015, 06:36:31 PM »
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2015, 08:01:53 PM »
Quote from: pikey on March 02, 2015, 09:20:09 AM
(:)

http://youtu.be/LUWECn4rbVo
funny!! but I thought we were going to get a smile ;) (:)
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2015, 10:26:03 PM »
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2015, 12:15:41 AM »
Can you send this escapee back to the Startrek thread Clive ?? ;)
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2015, 02:15:50 AM »
Quote from: pikey on March 02, 2015, 10:26:03 PM
Like this ??

http://youtu.be/tQSVvzqkC_c

 >:E

I think I am going to have nightmares about that one Pikey  ;)
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2015, 03:01:12 AM »
mental health act 1959 (lunacy)/1983/2007. (all melodeon players take note)
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2015, 03:26:34 AM »
Quote from: gettabettabox on March 03, 2015, 03:01:12 AM
mental health act 1959 (lunacy)/1983/2007. (all melodeon players take note)

Oh dear I was born in '59  :o
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2015, 02:33:22 PM »
Quote from: pikey on March 02, 2015, 10:26:03 PM
Like this ??

http://youtu.be/tQSVvzqkC_c

 >:E

Hahaha! Love the shoulder-hunch action. Chaplin-esque.
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2015, 08:40:08 PM »
 (:)

It's someone else's turn now  ;)
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2015, 12:08:49 AM »
I set out to write an An Dro (or Hanter Dro, I hadn't decided) earlier today as a departure from only ever inventing waltzes, and managed to miss spectacularly and (unexpectedly!) end up with a tune that reminded me of steam locomotives ::)
I've spent the whole evening recording it, to the point where I actually spent 5 minutes failing to play even the first bar due to my fingers failing to co-operate after playing it too much.

https://soundcloud.com/robotmay/stoke-bank
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2015, 12:14:11 AM »
Nice job.
What box did you use on it?
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2015: Do Something Unexpected!
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2015, 12:19:17 AM »
Thanks! It's on my Castagnari Lilium in D/G, with the low treble voice, low bass, and thirds out (:)
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