guitar 1: Joe (left 1), more than 6-month old strings, LaBella 2001 Classical MHT
guitar 2: Angelo (left 3)
guitar 3: Willis (left 2)
guitar 4: Jimmy (right 1)

This is the 3rd practice recording of this Canon in D.

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This is the 1st practice recording of the 2nd Movement of D Major Concerto.

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barbeque, beer, chat, play the guitar, solo & quartet..

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Here is the FIFA World Cup champion pattern:

Argentina : 1978 + 1986 = 3964
Germany : 1974 + 1990 = 3964
Brazil : 1970 + 1994 = 3964
Brazil : 1962 + 2002 = 3964
WHO?: X + 2010 = 3964

Q: Who will be the champion of FIFA World Cup 2010?

A: Solve this equation:
X + 2010 = 3964
X = 3964 – 2010
X = 1954

Q: What happened in the 1954 FIFA World Cup?

A: West Germany beat Hungary 3 to 2.

Q: What does this suggest?

A: Germany is “doomed” to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

A football is round. Here is the prove from CalTech.

The final score sometimes depends on luck.

Spain has a fabulous team this year. But look at their first game.  They are just out of luck.

This pattern is not a fixed prove. We can use 3964 minus the year of every past champion team. It’s not hard to find out it doesn’t work out every single time. That’s why we still keep our faith watching each team fight its way through.

The final result will be revealed soon.

FIFA World Cup References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_FIFA_World_Cup_Final

Original idea from:

http://e.iciba.com/space-4309461-do-blog-id-1200121.html

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=27542&topic=27573

It will be nice to provide a “shortcuts” like extension which combines as many as Google application shortcuts, then user has option to switch either one ON of OFF.

So we don’t have to install pipes of extensions icons beside the address bar.

A Chrome extension called “My Shortcuts” does a pretty good job. But there is still plenty of room to improve.

The goal is making useful things short and clean.

Posted on Google Sidewiki:

http://www.google.com/sidewiki/entry/JoeNo1.com/id/PmzAnbzhOVXmWQpaF-8AjAWVlDA

It was YouTube’s 5-year old birthday yesterday.

What a prestigious Internet big brother and such a great video sharing website!

I can’t believe YouTube spammed my mailbox today.

I received 10 identical emails from service@youtube.com within 5 hours.

Here is the evidence.

YouTube spammed my mailbox today

The title of these emails are “New Monthly reports have been generated“

Logically, I’m supposed to receive an email like this once a month.

I like to have this reports so that I can see which of my videos are getting the most views and revenue.

But getting it once a month is enough, or once a week at most.

Good thing I’m using Google’s gmail. All spams are sorted in one single thread. Nice and neat!

There are multi-layers of packing:

The outer layer is a thick cardboard box.

The 2nd layer is a big plastic bag.

The 3rd layer is a bubble wrap.

The 4th layer is the guitar case.

Finally, the guitar, Samllman 2010.

the guitar, Smallman 2010

In case of examination by the U.S. customs, the last defense on this guitar is a piece of paper.

the last defense for the guitar

Surprisingly, all strings on this guitar are in regular tension when we open the case. They are not loosed before the guitar is shipped.

1-2-3 strings:  Hannabach Carbon Trebles (red)

4-5-6 strings:  D’Addario Pro-Arte EJ46

Part 1:

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to be continued…

Left 1: Dr. Chia
Left 2: Joe ( Guitar: ROMERIGO 01, 罗美里哥 01（2008试制版） Strings: LaBella 2001 Classical MHT )
Left 3: Angelo
Left 4: Jimmy

The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)

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“It is never right to play ‘rag time’ fast.” – Scott Joplin

http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/20th/ragtime.html

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, from BWV 147 (J. S. Bach)

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Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

February 20, 2010

Guitarist: Gabriel Bianco (2008 GFA Winner)

Microphone: Sony ECM-MS907 + Sony MD, MZ-RH910

• The microphone is placed at the back of this lecture hall. I put it on the floor at the right side of the hall.
• No sound effects is added to this video.
• Sony ECM-MS907 is power by one AA battery.
• Sony MD, MZ-RH910 is power by one AA battery.

I’ll upload all videos I’ve got to my YouTube channel one by one. Stay tuned!

Julia Florida (Agustín Barrios Mangoré)

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La Catedral (Agustín Barrios Mangoré)

• I. Preludio saudade
• II. Andante religioso
• III. Allegro solemne

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Lob der Tranen (Praise of Tears) D.711z (Franz Schubert)

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Guitar: ROMERIGO 01, 罗美里哥 01（2008试制版）

Strings: LaBella 2001 Classical MHT (very old strings, the winding metal of the 4th string is broken at the 4th fred)

Microphone: Sony ECM-MS907

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This is one of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ famous classical guitar study. It says a arpeggio study in the subtitle of the manuscript. It sounds like a study for right hand. This confuses me for quite a long time. I find out that the notes in each measure landed at terrible places. It makes me very hard to execute right hand arpeggio and I even doubt it this is a arpeggio study. There is almost no fingering on the score. It makes the left hand fingering awfully hard to figure out. There are lots of possibilities to play one single measure.

I keep changing both my left hand and right hand fingering through out my learning process. The previous 5 videos are the prove. Fingerings on each one of them are different. I can’t say my fingering is finalized in the video, but it’s workable so far. It depends on what I want to practice & improve. I may still keep changing it over time.

My current focus is a-m-i-p and p-i-m-a coordination on different “string-groups”. That means, sometimes, more than 1 stock on the same string, but the right hand still keeps the arpeggio fingering. There are some unusual string-crossings when I keep doing this way. There should be ways to improve it. But I’m keeping this fingering for my current practicing purpose.

At the last note of the 4th measure, I play a D the 1st time(I think it should be a D, the same as the 2nd note of this measure), then an E the 2nd time(It says on VL’s manuscript), because I’m not sure if there is a human mistake on Heitor Villa-Lobos’ manuscript. As a practice, my fingering ensures that it can be easily performed in both ways. I hope someone can prove what note it suppose to be.

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The prescription drug I got is as following:

• TAMIFLU - (oseltamivir phosphate) Capsules, 75 mg each capsule. Take one capsule by mouth twice a day.
• AMOXICILLIN 250mg capsule, take 1 capsule 3 times a day.
• ACEPAMINOPHEN 500mg tablet, take 2 tablets by mouth twice a day as needed.
• APRODINE tablet, take 1 tablet by mouth 3 times a day as needed.

Now I’m recovering very well. These drugs work. I have no more fever, no more running nose, no more muscle pain. The flu is gone.

BTW:

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr’s Day. Thanks Dr. King. I’ve got one more day to stay home and relax