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With apologies to Joplin, I confess I can't resist picking out the melody on my right hand a few times before tackling the chords. Then I get down to business, spending hours and days making my left hand move from F major to D major to G minor. I consistently stumble over the two phrases "I'm broke/It's oke" because of the four tricky chords punching them...
Then I start practicing both hands together. About the first 200 times, I play the song slower than Billie Holiday would have sung it on the day she died. "I--get--too--hun--gry--for--G minor--at--eight." The old gibe about how to get to Carnegie Hall is true: practice, man, practice. Eventually, magically, I start to recognize a song emerging from my fumbles. But something is missing: an audience...
...Tuesday, arrested students were arraigned in court. Though the charges varied, they were mostly misdemeanors--including violation of alcohol statutes, possession of counterfeit identification and buying alcohol for a minor, according to Cellucci...
Their intensive preparations reflect the fact that presidential debates can turn on the most minor mishaps. And both sides have been jockeying for the slightest possible advantages...
With Tommy Lasorda at the helm, a ragtag group of minor leaguers and washed up major leaguers defeat the professionals from Cuba and win a shocker that some compare to the "Miracle on Ice" from...