Book 7 expands on some of the blues piano techniques you learned earlier. Read More!
Thrillpeddlers is pleased to announce that soon after its record-breaking 22 month run of the award-winning production of PEARLS Over SHANGHAI, and right after its sold-out performances of VICE PALACE and SHOCKTOBERFEST: Worry More than FRISCO, they may be remounting composer Scrumbly Koldewyn's revival from the 1972 Musical revue extravaganza VICE PALACE: The Final Cockettes Musical at the Hypnodrome Theatre Jan. 27 - March 3, 2012 at 8:00 pm. With a book by Martin Worman and music composed by Scrumbly Koldewyn, the show was originally performed by The Cockettes throughout Halloween 1972 at the Palace Theatre in North Beach. This revival has been extensively revised by Koldewyn with added material that initially appeared in past Cockettes productions. Do not miss the opportunity to determine The Cockette's notoriously gorgeous, wanton and bizarre spectacle in it really is limited run of only
12 performances! Thrillpeddlers' Hypnodrome Theatre is located at 575 10th St, in SF 94103. (Bryant & Division Sts.) Tickets $30 gen. admission or $35 for 'Shock Boxes' and 'Turkish Lounges**' and are available at
Fresh from performances at Lincoln Center and the HOWL Festival in NYC (Oct. 2011), Thrillpeddlers original VICE PALACE cast returns to San Francisco with their smash hit revival, VICE PALACE: The Final Cockettes Musical. This musical mind trip imagines Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque in the Red Death" as viewed through the lens of Frederico Fellini, and topped off with truly outrageous costumes, wigs and spectacular gender-bending drag ensemble performances. VICE PALACE follows Divina (played by drag-king star, Leigh Crow), an eccentric socialite who spares no expense to keep her jet-set party guests entertained, while the villagers just beyond the walls of her lavish estate are ravaged by the plague. Each performance must top the next in this bizarre race to escape the one uninvited party guest death! - and look fabulous as they do it.
Initially produced as a 'Nocturnal Dream Show' and performed at midnight at the old Palace Theatre in North Beach on Halloween 1972, Vice palace starred the inimitable Divine and cult star Mink Stole (best known as stars of director John Waters' films), VICE PALACE was written by Martin Worman & Scrumbly Koldewyn, original members of the pioneering, gender-bending performance troupe, The Cockettes. Russell Blackwood, founding member and visionary behind Thrillpeddlers and master of the macabre, directs a cast of San Francisco's most extravagant underground drag performers and divas. VICE PALACE was the fabled and fabulous Cockettes' final stage presentation.
The Cockettes were a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated these outrageous shows, but also exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies, to glitter rock stars and their outrageous fashions.
VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical is directed by Russell Blackwood, and original Cockette and composer Scrumbly Koldewyn is the Musical Director. Flynn DeMarco is the Associate director. Scenery by James Blackwood, costumes by K??ra Emry, lights by Nicholas Torre, sound by Chris Paulina, and make up coordinator Kegel Kater.
2012 dates for VICE PALACE: The Final Cockettes Musical are:
Jan. (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm) Jan. 27, 28
Feb. (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm Feb. 2,3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24
March (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm) March 2, 3
Composer Scrumbly Koldewyn plays piano for all performances of VICE PALACE: The Final Cockettes Musical. Thrillpeddler and San Francisco favorites will be featured in this revival, including: Leigh Crow (Divina), Flynn DeMarco (Goldoni), Birdie-Bob Watt (Vagina Dentata), Steven Satyricon (Niccolini), Eric Tyson Wertz (Bella), Ste Fishell (Tonio), L. Ron Hubby (Sylvia Koscina), James Toczyl (Polo), Russell Blackwood (Lucretia), and making his Thrillpeddlers debut as Ricciolini is Joshua Devore. Best known as former porn star Tober Brandt, Mr. Devore (aka Brandt) was named Best Fetish Performer in the 2009 GayVN Awards (Gay Oscars).
12 performances! Thrillpeddlers' Hypnodrome Theatre is located at 575 10th St, in SF 94103. (Bryant & Division Sts.) Tickets $30 gen. admission or $35 for 'Shock Boxes' and 'Turkish Lounges**' and are available at
Fresh from performances at Lincoln Center and the HOWL Festival in NYC (Oct. 2011), Thrillpeddlers original VICE PALACE cast returns to San Francisco with their smash hit revival, VICE PALACE: The Final Cockettes Musical. This musical mind trip imagines Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque in the Red Death" as viewed through the lens of Frederico Fellini, and topped off with truly outrageous costumes, wigs and spectacular gender-bending drag ensemble performances. VICE PALACE follows Divina (played by drag-king star, Leigh Crow), an eccentric socialite who spares no expense to keep her jet-set party guests entertained, while the villagers just beyond the walls of her lavish estate are ravaged by the plague. Each performance must top the next in this bizarre race to escape the one uninvited party guest death! - and look fabulous as they do it.
Initially produced as a 'Nocturnal Dream Show' and performed at midnight at the old Palace Theatre in North Beach on Halloween 1972, Vice palace starred the inimitable Divine and cult star Mink Stole (best known as stars of director John Waters' films), VICE PALACE was written by Martin Worman & Scrumbly Koldewyn, original members of the pioneering, gender-bending performance troupe, The Cockettes. Russell Blackwood, founding member and visionary behind Thrillpeddlers and master of the macabre, directs a cast of San Francisco's most extravagant underground drag performers and divas. VICE PALACE was the fabled and fabulous Cockettes' final stage presentation.
The Cockettes were a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated these outrageous shows, but also exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies, to glitter rock stars and their outrageous fashions.
VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical is directed by Russell Blackwood, and original Cockette and composer Scrumbly Koldewyn is the Musical Director. Flynn DeMarco is the Associate director. Scenery by James Blackwood, costumes by K??ra Emry, lights by Nicholas Torre, sound by Chris Paulina, and make up coordinator Kegel Kater.
2012 dates for VICE PALACE: The Final Cockettes Musical are:
Jan. (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm) Jan. 27, 28
Feb. (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm Feb. 2,3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24
March (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm) March 2, 3
Composer Scrumbly Koldewyn plays piano for all performances of VICE PALACE: The Final Cockettes Musical. Thrillpeddler and San Francisco favorites will be featured in this revival, including: Leigh Crow (Divina), Flynn DeMarco (Goldoni), Birdie-Bob Watt (Vagina Dentata), Steven Satyricon (Niccolini), Eric Tyson Wertz (Bella), Ste Fishell (Tonio), L. Ron Hubby (Sylvia Koscina), James Toczyl (Polo), Russell Blackwood (Lucretia), and making his Thrillpeddlers debut as Ricciolini is Joshua Devore. Best known as former porn star Tober Brandt, Mr. Devore (aka Brandt) was named Best Fetish Performer in the 2009 GayVN Awards (Gay Oscars).
The Effective Piano Approach - The Pentatonic Or Five Note Approach
The other day I was watching a rerun in the Newhart Show. In the episode, Joanna, the wife of innkeeper Dick Louden, had purchased an old piano and was excited to find out to play. The majority of the other characters inside the show like the piano movers who said they would not charge for the move until they picked it as much as move it elsewhere, have been skeptical that Joanna would truly understand to play. But, she was determined and thrilled with her new piano.
The plot continues with Dick playing the only song he can don't forget from his childhood lessons, Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater, and Joanna eagerly anticipating her very first lessons. However, we next see Joanna struggling through a C Significant scale and slumped more than the piano looking at a method book with cutsie photos. Her husband and buddies start to ridicule her selection to discover to play the piano and her interest in practicing soon begins to wane.
This scenario occurs far too typically. Each of the adult wanted to complete was to fulfill a dream and find out to play the piano today. However, teachers usually assign boring technical perform as well as understanding the complete language of note reading and notion building. In this standard strategy, playing a song, a recognizable melody, is something that sooner or later is achieved, but usually not swiftly adequate for the adult starting pianist. So, the adult learner becomes bored and provides up around the dream.
Achievement swiftly, or playing songs even though developing concepts and capabilities is needed for adult starting pianists to keep involved and help them accomplish their purpose or long-held dream of playing the piano. But, just what's this approach? Playing piano songs these days can come about by utilizing the pentatonic method.
In the pentatonic strategy, the adult beginner initial learns strategy by playing actual songs utilizing only the black keys from the piano. Many hymns, folk songs, and in some cases pop/rock songs are determined by only 5 notes. Understanding to play melodies employing only 5 notes as opposed to twelve is actually a huge advantage. Instead of first understanding a C Main scale as Joanna was attempting to do in the Newhart Show instance, a newbie employing the pentatonic strategy in a single day would be playing the song recognized worldwide, Amazing Grace, and inside the approach would also be developing piano strategy.
In the pentatonic method that enables a newbie to play songs on the piano today, the ear can also be developed inside the early stages of studying. The learner rapidly understands how the notes work collectively to type a recognizable melody. Adding accompaniments, or harmony for the melody is possible practically quickly, as once more, the pentatonic scale makes everything played sound appropriate. For an adult this really is vital. Adult newbies do not desire to make errors and simply quit if they're not immediately effective.
This pentatonic or five-note approach creates engaged learners who will continue their study and will be interested and eager to conquer the intricacies of note and rhythm reading. Why? Since they've had early achievement in playing songs speedily and in performing so have started establishing the technical and musical abilities of a pianist.
The other day I was watching a rerun in the Newhart Show. In the episode, Joanna, the wife of innkeeper Dick Louden, had purchased an old piano and was excited to find out to play. The majority of the other characters inside the show like the piano movers who said they would not charge for the move until they picked it as much as move it elsewhere, have been skeptical that Joanna would truly understand to play. But, she was determined and thrilled with her new piano.
The plot continues with Dick playing the only song he can don't forget from his childhood lessons, Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater, and Joanna eagerly anticipating her very first lessons. However, we next see Joanna struggling through a C Significant scale and slumped more than the piano looking at a method book with cutsie photos. Her husband and buddies start to ridicule her selection to discover to play the piano and her interest in practicing soon begins to wane.
This scenario occurs far too typically. Each of the adult wanted to complete was to fulfill a dream and find out to play the piano today. However, teachers usually assign boring technical perform as well as understanding the complete language of note reading and notion building. In this standard strategy, playing a song, a recognizable melody, is something that sooner or later is achieved, but usually not swiftly adequate for the adult starting pianist. So, the adult learner becomes bored and provides up around the dream.
Achievement swiftly, or playing songs even though developing concepts and capabilities is needed for adult starting pianists to keep involved and help them accomplish their purpose or long-held dream of playing the piano. But, just what's this approach? Playing piano songs these days can come about by utilizing the pentatonic method.
In the pentatonic strategy, the adult beginner initial learns strategy by playing actual songs utilizing only the black keys from the piano. Many hymns, folk songs, and in some cases pop/rock songs are determined by only 5 notes. Understanding to play melodies employing only 5 notes as opposed to twelve is actually a huge advantage. Instead of first understanding a C Main scale as Joanna was attempting to do in the Newhart Show instance, a newbie employing the pentatonic strategy in a single day would be playing the song recognized worldwide, Amazing Grace, and inside the approach would also be developing piano strategy.
In the pentatonic method that enables a newbie to play songs on the piano today, the ear can also be developed inside the early stages of studying. The learner rapidly understands how the notes work collectively to type a recognizable melody. Adding accompaniments, or harmony for the melody is possible practically quickly, as once more, the pentatonic scale makes everything played sound appropriate. For an adult this really is vital. Adult newbies do not desire to make errors and simply quit if they're not immediately effective.
This pentatonic or five-note approach creates engaged learners who will continue their study and will be interested and eager to conquer the intricacies of note and rhythm reading. Why? Since they've had early achievement in playing songs speedily and in performing so have started establishing the technical and musical abilities of a pianist.
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