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# Arpeggio

An arpeggio is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order. Arpeggios on keyboard instruments may be called rolled chords.
Arpeggios may include all notes of a scale or a partial set of notes from a scale, but must contain notes of at least three pitches (two-pitch sequences are known as trills). Arpeggios may sound notes within a single octave or span multiple octaves, and the notes may be sustained and overlap or be heard separately.

## Quotes about the arpeggio

* More than 40 years after the release of Van Halen, the opening riff in “Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love” - an arpeggiated Am-F-G5 passage played with palm-muted downstrokes - is still a favorite among beginning and intermediate pickers.
** Guitar Player
* In the ’80s, Peter Buck’s clean, chime-y arpeggios defined the sound of alt-rock to come.
** Jason Shadrick and Nick Millevoi of Premier Guitar (February 19, 2025)
# Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound effects and recording techniques, extended instrumental solos, and improvisation. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously.

## Quotes about psychedelic rock

* There is no one song that “started” the psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s. It was a natural evolution and a response to what rock music had delivered thus far.
** Em Casalena of American Songwriter
* The hippie movement was about a lot of things — drugs, love, peace, anti-establishment, anti-war — and at the forefront of the movement was the music, psychedelic rock.
** Brooklyn Vegan (June 16, 2017)
* Psychedelic rock is [...] rock's most inventive [sub]genre. Whether or not psychedelic drugs played a role (and as many musicians say they've used them as not) psychedelic rock has consistently charted brave new worlds that exist only in the space between the headphones.
** Jim DeRogatis in his book Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock
# The Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project were a British rock band formed in London in 1975. Its core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician and composer Alan Parsons, and singer, songwriter and pianist Eric Woolfson. They shared writing credits on almost all of their songs, with Parsons producing or co-producing all of the recordings, while being accompanied by various session musicians, some relatively consistent.

## Quotes about the Alan Parsons Project

* [The Alan Parsons Project] was generally praised for the overall production value and hi-fi, surround-sound listening experience that also included various elements of progressive pop, art-rock, and light rock. The Project's 1977 concept release, I Robot, is an early ode to artificial intelligence.
** Jeff Mezydlo of Yardbarker (February 2025)
# Dean Wareham

Dean Wareham (born 1 August 1963) is an American musician and actor who co-founded the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. He departed from Galaxie 500 in April 1991 and went on to establish the band Luna. Following Luna's dissolution in 2005, Wareham has collaborated on albums with fellow Luna band member (and wife) Britta Phillips, forming the duo known as Dean & Britta. They have also ventured into film composition, notably contributing to the soundtracks of Noah Baumbach's films The Squid and the Whale (2005) and Mistress America. In 2014, Wareham released a self-titled album and in 2015, he reformed Luna.

## Quotes

* You want there to be moments [in a song] where something unexpected hits you. They’ve done studies on this. What is it in a song that makes people cry? What is it that moves you? It’s something unexpected.
** As quoted by Ryan Reed of Premier Guitar (February 20, 2025)
* If you haven’t played the songs for ten or fifteen years it’s very tingly, it’s exciting. I enjoy playing them. This promoter in Spain — he asked us to do the show in Spain in January and it was really fun and then the records were all coming out. It just seemed like a good time. I thought I should do more of these.
** On playing old Galaxie 500 songs, as quoted from an interview with Lizzy Goodman of Vulture (November 16, 2010)
* I‘ve been doing it longer than I would have guessed. I didn’t think when I started Galaxie 500 I’d still be making music in twenty years. Longer than I’d dared to hope, I suppose. Being in an indie band back then, you weren’t allowed to have dreams of being huge. None of the major labels have touched anything that’s remotely left of field since the punk movement. It was all Huey Lewis. That changed with Sonic Youth and then Nirvana signing to Geffen. Alternative became this huge business, and now Arcade Fire or Vampire Weekend can be No. 1.
** As quoted from an interview with Lizzy Goodman of Vulture (November 16, 2010)
# Modal jazz

Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece. Though exerting influence to the present, modal jazz was most popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

## Quotes about modal jazz

* The urge to move away from the over-familiar chord progressions of bop led Charles Mingus and Miles Davis to develop new approaches to harmonic movement, and the recording of some of the greatest albums in the history of music.
** Jazzwise (October 8, 2021)
# Steve Vai

Steven Siro Vai (/ˈvaɪ/ VYE; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, and played in Zappa's band from 1980 to 1983. He embarked on a solo career in 1983 and has released 11 solo albums to date. He has recorded and toured with Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake, as well as recording with artists such as Public Image Ltd, Mary J. Blige, Spinal Tap, Alice Cooper, Motörhead, and Polyphia.

## Quotes about Steve Vai

* The Big V has been making weird guitar noises since his infancy—when Frank Zappa’s wolf pack adopted and raised him.
** Guitar World (27 October 2017)
* There's a reason why Steve Vai was cast as the Devil's champion in the guitar standoff scene of "The Crossroads" movie, and a ridiculously long list of mind-blowing guitar effects he could produce certainly added to his reputation of an established guitar wizard. His pick squeals are top-notch, especially when he lays on a note so hard that it makes your brain melt, or when he combines it with a whammy effect, making his guitar sound like a racehorse dying in horrible agony.
** Vlad Nichols of Ultimate-Guitar (February 4, 2021)
# Nashville Number System
## Quotes about the Nashville Number System

* It makes sense that a shortcut system to convey chord progressions efficiently would emerge from Music City.
** Jane Miller of Acoustic Guitar (October 18, 2024)
# The Starting Line
## Quotes about the Starting Line

* The Starting Line had a huge influence on our guitar writing and playing style, even in the earlier years of us just learning how to play.
** Cameron Hurley of We Are the In Crowd, as quoted by Claire Davies of MusicRadar (13 May 2014)
# Frank Gambale
## Quotes

* In many cases, I was trying to play saxophone and keyboard licks on the guitar—with the 'current' techniques, as they were, like alternate picking, but they just didn't cut it for everything. So I had to push the boundaries, really, to create and develop this incredible technique that is now part of the guitar lexicon. But I put thousands and thousands of hours into getting it. One of the biggest stumbling blocks was playing it in time. That was really, really challenging. And as far as technique, it works better at medium to fast tempos—I describe it as fifth or sixth gear in a car. It's that extra torque and low-revs at great velocity, it's the best analogy I can make. Where sweep picking lives, for the most part, is at fast tempos, it's not a slow technique, but if I'm playing slower notes, I'll alternate or hammer-on and pull-off.
** On his pioneering of sweep picking, as quoted by Ultimate-Guitar

## Quotes about Frank Gambale

* It seemed like in the wake of Eddie Van Halen truly introducing two-handed tapping to the masses in the late '70s, rock guitar had been pushed to the max. Especially, techniques that were based upon speedy runs. But it turned out that there was at least one more technique that caught the attention of guitarists a few years later: sweep picking. And it was jazz-fusion player Frank Gambale who seemed to perfect it and make it part of his playing style.
** Ultimate-Guitar
# Sweep picking

Sweep picking is a guitar-playing technique. When sweep picking, the guitarist plays single notes on consecutive strings with a 'sweeping' motion of the pick, while using the fretting hand to produce a specific series of notes that are fast and fluid in sound. Both hands essentially perform an integral motion in unison to achieve the desired effect.

## Quotes about sweep picking

* In many cases, I was trying to play saxophone and keyboard licks on the guitar—with the 'current' techniques, as they were, like alternate picking, but they just didn't cut it for everything. So I had to push the boundaries, really, to create and develop this incredible technique that is now part of the guitar lexicon. But I put thousands and thousands of hours into getting it. One of the biggest stumbling blocks was playing it in time. That was really, really challenging. And as far as technique, it works better at medium to fast tempos—I describe it as fifth or sixth gear in a car. It's that extra torque and low-revs at great velocity, it's the best analogy I can make. Where sweep picking lives, for the most part, is at fast tempos, it's not a slow technique, but if I'm playing slower notes, I'll alternate or hammer-on and pull-off.
** Frank Gambale, as quoted by Greg Prato of Ultimate-Guitar (August 29, 2024)
# John Smith (explorer)

Captain John Smith (baptized 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania and friend Mózes Székely. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Virginia Indian[1] girl Pocahontas during an altercation with the Powhatan Confederacy and her father, Chief Powhatan. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.

## Quotes

* Heaven &earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation; were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people. Here are mountains, hills, plains, valleys, rivers, and brookes, all running most nicely into a faire Bay, compassed but for the mouth, with fruitful and delightsome land.
** Describing the countryside around Chesapeake Bay (1606); reported in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles (1907), vol. 2, pp. 44–45.
* You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.
** Advice to his company when he was governor of Jamestown Colony, Virginia (1608); reported in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles (1907), vol. 1, chapter 10, p. 174.
* Nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam, and Leyden went to New Plimouth, whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year, to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with infinite patience.
** Captain John Smith (1579-1631) Sometime Governor of Virginia, and Admiral of New England, p. 276
* At last, upon those inducements, some well-disposed Brownists, as they are termed, with some Gentlemen and Merchants of Layden and Amsterdam, to save charges would try their own conclusions, though with great loss and much misery till time had taught them to see their own error; for such humorists will never believe well, till they bee beaten with their own rod.
** Capt. John Smith, p. 941

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on John Smith (explorer) on Wikipedia
* Media related to Captain John Smith on Wikimedia Commons
* Works related to Author:John Smith (1580-1631) on Wikisource
# Theodore O'Hara

Theodore O'Hara (February 11, 1820 – June 6, 1867) was a poet and an officer for the United States Army in the Mexican–American War, and a Confederate colonel in the American Civil War. He is best known for the poems Bivouac of the Dead, which is quoted in many cemeteries, and "The Old Pioneer".

## Quotes

* The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
** "The Bivouac of the Dead" (1847), st. 1
* Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground, Ye must not slumber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heedless air; Your own proud land's heroic soil Shall be your fitter grave; She claims from war his richest spoil— The ashes of her brave.
** "The Bivouac of the Dead" (1847), st. 9
** Written for the Kentuckians who fell at Buena Vista (February 22–23, 1847). The "Dark and Bloody Ground" was a name used to describe the region that became Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio
* Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone, In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished age hath flown The story how ye fell; Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor Time's remorseless doom, Shall dim one ray of glory's light That gilds your deathless tomb.
** "The Bivouac of the Dead" (1847), st. 12
* A dirge for the brave old pioneer! Knight-errant of the wood! Calmly beneath the green sod here He rests from field and flood The war-whoop and the panther's screams No more his soul shall rouse, For well the aged hunter dreams Beside his good old spouse.
** "The Old Pioneer" (December, 1850), st. 1
** "The Old Pioneer", Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, vol. 1, no. 3 (1903), p. 58

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Theodore O'Hara on Wikipedia
# Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs gave support to the U.S.'s entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays.

## Quotes

* People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.
** "The Reluctant Duchess", in The Saturday Evening Post (April 4, 1925), p. 32
* I am American bred, I have seen much to hate here—much to forgive, But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live.
** The White Cliffs (New York, 1940), last lines
* People love to talk but hate to listen....Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what’s being told us....You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
** Reported in Henry Wise Miller, All Our Lives: Alice Duer Miller (New York, 1945), p. 124
* If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends—you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it—that’s the time to hold your tongue.
** Reported in Woman's Day (January, 1947), p. 7
* Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course,— because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you.
** Reported in Virginia Gildersleeve, Many a Good Crusade (New York, 1954), p. 228

### Are Women People?

    Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1915)
* There, little girl, don't read, You're fond of your books, I know, But Brother might mope If he had no hope Of getting ahead of you. It's dull for a boy who cannot lead. There, little girl, don't read.
** "The Protected Sex (With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley)", p. 34
* When men in Congress come to blows at something someone said, I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red; But if two women disagree, with very little noise, It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
** "A Sex Difference", p. 60
* "Mother, what is a Feminist?" "A Feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who cares To think about her own affairs As men don't think she oughter."
** "Feminism", p. 64
* It's treating a woman politely As long as she isn't a fright: It's guarding the girls who act rightly, If you can be judge of what's right; It's being—not just, but so pleasant; It's tipping while wages are low; It's making a beautiful present, And failing to pay what you owe.
** "Chivalry", p. 73
* We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too, But very human beings, human just as much as you. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.
** "Women (With rather insincere apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling)", p. 75
# Kiko Loureiro

Pedro Henrique "Kiko" Loureiro (Portuguese: [loˈɾejɾu]; born 16 June 1972) is a Brazilian guitarist. He has been a member of several heavy metal bands, including Angra and Megadeth.

## Quotes

* How to improve melody... I get this question a lot. I think people kind of make something too complicated out of that. There's a lot of rules. You can [read] books about the melodies... But [if] you have great songs all around; if you have a nice chord progression, you can just follow [it] and play the notes of the chords, and it's gonna work. Then, sometimes, you deviate and come back, but you don't need to think much about it. [...] You can also just pay attention to melodies... and play melodies. Get the guitar, and play melodies. I think guitar players, in general, at least from my generation, learn scales, the pentatonics, the shapes of the modes, the triads, this and that, and we don't play a lot of melodies. So that's something that I was paying more attention to later [in my career]... I just try to play the melody. No fancy arpeggios, no nothing. Just a singable melody.
** As quoted by Vlad Nichols of Ultimate-Guitar (Jan 21, 2025)
* Start looking around, and then just learn how to play the melodies from songs you like. It can be traditional songs from your country, pop songs, modern, whatever — melodies from songs you like. Classical music, right? You can play exactly the same melody in so many different ways. That's what creates this emotion, mainly when you play instrumental music. But [also] in any music, of course, because the singer will do the same. In classical music, this is mandatory to develop that sense of how to interpret the melody. Because you're playing songs [where] you cannot change any note, but the only thing you can change is how you interpret those notes, right? So we can learn a lot from classical players.
** As quoted by Vlad Nichols of Ultimate-Guitar (Jan 21, 2025)
# Walking bass
## Quotes about walking bass

* Combining bass lines with chords can be an effective way to perform solo or accompany a singer or other instrumentalist. This technique is often employed to thicken up parts in a setting where there's space to fill. While common among jazz guitar players, it is equally suitable in other styles of music, and lends itself very nicely to blues playing.
# Turnaround (music)

In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. This next section is most often the repetition of the previous section or the entire piece or song. The turnaround may lead back to this section either harmonically, as a chord progression, or melodically.

## Quotes about the turnaround in music

* The phrase ‘turnaround’ is used to describe the last two or fours bars of the blues sequence.
** Jon Bishop of Guitar World (20 December 2023)
# Bernard Barton

Bernard Barton (31 January 1784 – 19 February 1849) was known as the Quaker poet. His main works included The Convict's Appeal (1818), in which he protested against the death penalty and the severity of the criminal code.

## Quotes

* No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
** Reported in M. M. Ballou (ed.) Treasury of Thought, 7th ed. (1881), p. 347
* Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
** Reported in M. M. Ballou (ed.) Treasury of Thought, 7th ed. (1881), p. 368

## See also

* E. V. Lucas

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Bernard Barton on Wikipedia
# Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras

Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras (30 August 1792 – 19 February 1858) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Dubuque.

## Quotes about Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras

* During nearly twenty years of devoted work for the church he won the esteem of thousands of its best citizens.
** Benjamin F. Gue, Mathias Loras (1903) History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
* His administration was marked by piety, zeal, and providential prudence.
** John Charles Stuart, Archdiocese of Dubuque (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
# House Party (2023 film)

House Party is a 2023 American comedy film about two young aspiring club promoters working as house cleaners who throw a party at their latest job site: LeBron James' mansion. It is a reboot and remake of the 1990 film of the same name.
    Directed by Calmatic. Written by Jamal Olori and Stephen Glover.

## Kevin

* I wouldn't do something like this unless I was desperate.
* Have you seen how out of control this party is?
* He got a hologram of himself just to give him compliments?
* No! What the fuck just happened?
* There's some crazy, beautiful, weird-ass shit about to go down.

## Damon

* How about we throw a party here?
* Looks like we about to throw a house…
* We can throw the party, have it cleaned, without him even knowing.
* He's eating an apple at a party. Who eats an apple at a party? That's a sign of a madman.

## LeBron James

* You handled the decision to go to Miami perfectly.
* Your hairline is perfect. Anyone who says otherwise is just jealous.
* To become a champion, you must think like a champion.

## Taglines

* Party Like Your Life Depends on It.

## External links

* House Party quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Kenneth Michael Howell

Kenneth Michael Howell (20 February 1958 –) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Toowoomba.

## Quotes

* We always like to think what our future will be, and that's hopefully heaven, but we just get in and do what you're called to do. If you're doing your normal ministry, if you’re serving God's people and getting involved in the life of the Church, then I suppose these callings can follow.
** Fr Ken Howell asks for prayers as he prepares to become a bishop (2017) Catholic Leader