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Post subject: Re: Musician Jokes .... feel free to add some.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 12:01 pm
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Don't know if this has been published here before....if it has, apologies, but regardless, it's good, hahahaha....

Here is a little something to ponder for those of us who are jazz musicians:

Jazz Math

1. If x is the number of chord changes in a tune, and y is the tempo
at which it is played, then xy = factor by which a guitarist will turn
down his amp.

2. The number of notes/measure played by a saxophonist on a ballad is
proportional to the number of drinks he has consumed.

3. 4 + 4.125 + 4 + 3.875 + 4 + (4.667) + 4 + (x, where x is unknown)
= Horn player trading fours with the drummer.

4. (2 + 5 + 1) x (# of freshman college jazz students,
internationally) annual income of Jamie Aebersold, in dollars.

5. Infinity = (3 + 6 + 2 + 5) + (3 + 6 + 2 + 5) + (3 + 6 + 2 + 5) ...

6. 5/4 + 7/4 + 11/4 = The drummer's gig

7. If the number of drinks consumed per musician = the number of
drinks comped by club, then unrest will prevail unless (cost per
drink) < 1/20(pay for gig).

8. 1 uptempo tune +1 rushing drummer + x (double lattes) = x (fights
among horn players to solo first)

9. 1 ballad + 1 dragging drummer + x (Percocets) = 1 cleared house,
where x is proportional to the speed at which the room empties.

10. 2 (diddles) = paradiddle

11. Jam session + eighth-note rest = missed opportunity.

12. Jam session + (quarter-note rest or greater) = band on break.

13. {(New + York) squared - (NewNew + Yorkyork + Yorknew) + New York + 2 (Ride + Sally) - Sally} divided by (less than five seconds)
=medley from hell

14. (1/vocalist's experience in years) x (# of beats per measure) x
32 = # of unintended modulations + skipped beats per chorus.

15. If x = piano's deviance from being in tune, y = volume level of
drummer, z = length of gig, and d = number of drinks consumed by
pianist on break, then (d ) (xyz /pay of the gig, in dollars),
predicts the probability of pianist urinating in his instrument.

16. "Vow of Poverty" theorem: If # people in audience < # of
musicians on bandstand, then pay per musician <one individual cover
charge.

17. "Bass" theorem: A musician's IQ is inversely proportional to the
size of his/her instrument, and directly related to the register of
the instrument.

18. "Rule of One" theorem: (Universe of jazz vocalists) v (# of jazz
vocalists who sing "Summertime") = 1 = rank of "Summertime"
among tunes most despised by instrumentalists.

19. "Devil's Music" theorem: Smooth Jazz = square root of all evil.

20. "Two Americas" Buffet theorem: Fresh salmon/flaccid spanakopita +
prime rib/limp eggrolls + jumbo shrimp/soggy chicken fingers = high
society gig/Elks Club gig

21. How much should a gig pay, based on the following conditions:
drive 90 miles outside of town through pouring rain; set up two hours
in advance; load in through slimy kitchen accessed by treacherous
outdoor staircase; and play four hours of continuous crappy dance
favorites for drunk rich people?

Would you take it for 1/2 that much?

(If yes): Desperation/pride = 1

After you bid on the above gig for 1/3 your worth, a college student
offers to play the same gig for 1/2 as much. You are 12 times as good as
him, but 1/2 as good-looking. The client has a tin ear. Who will get
the job? Why do you bother practicing?

22. If a trumpet player counts off a tune in 4/4 at mm = 180, and the
drummer slows it down at a constant rate of deceleration over 8
measures to mm = 150, does the pianist still suck?

22. If a bassist plays a root, a pianist superimposes a major seventh
chord built on the fifth, and a saxophonist plays the 13th, will
attractive women notice? Will the drummer?

23. If (% of Americans who like jazz) < (% of Americans who like
chainsaw sculptures), what is America's most important indigenous art
form?


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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:20 pm
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thank you JBlake59

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 3:05 pm
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Thanks, for the Jazz math, JBlake59. Next time I hit the skins I'll know what two diddles are called. :P

Just in case this didn't play earlier:


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Post subject: Re: Musician Jokes .... feel free to add some.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 4:27 pm
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Question: How do you know someone is playing a tube amp?

Answer: They'll tell you!

HAHAHA!

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Post subject: Re: Musician Jokes .... feel free to add some.
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 1:17 am
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mh2000 wrote:
Question: How do you know someone is playing a tube amp?

Answer: They'll tell you!

HAHAHA!

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So I've been told. :P

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