In 2001, I made a yahoo account which uses "hacked" suffix.
In 2006, I got hacked.
My account got blocked.
I couldn’t access my email and almost my other online credentials.
I lost some $$$ from my e-bank account.
Is this karma?
I hope it’s true so that from now on i will add "president" [1] and "idol" [2] suffixes in such favor when i can’t reach [1], i can still be [2].
Hehehe..
Who is Al Di Meola?
Born in an Italian family, then, while growing up in New Jersey, young
Al Di Meola divided his time between guitar lessons and hanging out at
the local salsa clubs. Influenced greatly by jazz guitarist Larry
Coryell, Di Meola enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where
his marathon practice sessions are still the stuff of legends (Al
continues to be the technical master by which other guitarists are
measured). "We had three guys in one space; one in one room, one in the
bathroom and I got the closet". After a brief stint with keyboardist
Barry Miles, Di Meola, at 19 was tapped by Chick Corea in 1974 for
"Return to Forever". His star quickly ascended. Twenty-two recordings,
countless awards, (including three gold albums) and six million albums
later, Al Di Meola is still challenging himself and his music.
I’m not an Al’s big fan. I reckon that his music and creativity are fantastic yet sometimes confusing and not easy listening. What amazes me so that i decide to write here is his picking technique. Unlike many other guitarists who play speed picking, Al technique is bit distinguished, or if i can say, astonishing. He picks every single note on the bars, just like how your master taught you to do arpeggios in your classical guitar class.
If you’re playing triplets, do you pull or hammer the second and/or third note in the triplet? Ask Al, and he will show you how to do it by only using pickings. Here I give a transcription from "Race with Devil on Spanish Highway", bar 7 to 12. Please also note that the intervals are not constant. Cool huh?
His technique is not so easy to follow. Who wants to spend extra energy to pick every single note if one can plainly use simple pulling or hammering? Perhaps nobody, but we have Al. Have you ever heard Al’s song entitled "Orient Blue"? I guess this is a good start to imitate his technique, to answer the challenge that the technique is not divine though it seems sophisticated (but if you’re satisfied enough with echoing effect from your electrical guitar by doing some pullings or hammerings, no need to try, honestly). Please pay attention to the first 12 bars below. You may say it’s just simple arpeggios, but please remember, don’t use your fingers. Do picking instead. Too easy? Oh no, i must have no musical talent. Would you please help me get over my stiff fingers problem?
Credit: Guitar Pro 5, a guitarist’s must-known application for creating and listening to musical transcription
Saturday night. Full moon and twinkling stars covered up the darkened blue sky.
Cold night, shattered debris. Dust in the wind raced to reach the end of borderless spatial arena.
Street lamps were on a line, marching up like a race. Shedding some candelas. Un-dimming the night.
Crowd were everywhere. Cozy places were taken, almost occupied. Chatters and laughters were mesmerized. So merry.
Not even a preach, everybody was on bliss.
Sitting a woman in grief. Melancholy song guaranteed a handkerchief.
Slim body was wrapped by decent dress, a silhoutte of sexiness.
Beautiful face was so flattering, diminished flawlessly by the reddish eyes.
Elegance was a story, sadness won a victory.
Paradox or irony?
Telling me a story. A heartless man in history.
Trying to listen in silence. Grasping each word in details.
Keeping self control, not to be owned by emotion.
She paused the tone, asking for a solution.
You know, you’re talking to a wrong person.
Speaking with logic, telling her the truth. Arranging my words, harder than blabbing my mouth.
"Don’t live with only feelings", said I. "You know how you feel but you know it won’t fix things".
"Commitment is about two persons. No use forcing your feeling if you don’t get the same feedback".
"When you dare to start, you know, you should be ready for the ending, however bad you don’t want it."
"Yes, but I’m afraid"
"I’m not ready for this situation. I can’t just plainly accept that this is for real"
That man triggered the killer gun, saying:
"Life has to go on. If you keep behaving like this, you’re torturing yourself. You have to move on. Do you believe that ‘love isn’t always to be defined as possessing?’"
Her eyes got more gloomy. Reddish eyes were burned with more sorrow.
Finally it was there.
A clear drop was falling from the edge of her fine eyes.
In front of me,
A woman cried
For a thing called love.
