Good day...

Yeah we covered what they called "Field Hollers", which was interesting to hear an example of. The professor also brought up the Diddley Bow. He mentioned as an aside that that's where Bo Diddley got his stage name. It brought to memory the trailer for that new movie This Might Get Loud where Jack White creates a diddley bow out of a plank, some nails, a beer bottle, a wire, and a pickup. We also saw a clip of the now deceased Lonnie Pitchford...pretty cool stuff.

It's the same with me though, I've got no problem keeping the eyes open and the mind focused for this class. I actually lent the professor an Ali Akbar Khan album the other day that I need to get back...we covered him in class last week while discussing music from and around India.

A blues education tour...that'd be something else.

Yes Eva, the blues portion of this class, and all of our lovely Bougavillea trees

It's pretty much a world music class, so we've talked about a ton of stuff. Different types of instruments (chordophone, membranophone, aerophone, idiophone...), uses of music in different cultures, and we've talked a lot just about music in other countries. Egypt, various countries in Africa, Spain, India, Afghanistan, more recently some of the Eastern European countries, South America, Australia, and now America with jazz and blues.

The class is cool though because starting on like the third week of classes there's been a mandatory concert every Wednesday. Attendance there is part of your grade. And this week's show is a guitar duo, so it should be a good time.