My wife says I spend too much time on this forum

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I think most people know the word grok these days. It went from obscure to common usage a decade or so ago.

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I’d never heard it before - every day’s a school day! I’m also going to try and insert it into conversations now :ok_hand:

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Best bet is find a sax teacher that doubles on flute. Many many do.

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I learned something new today thanks to @Barney! I did not know Iron Maiden had a song called ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’. I also see that they had an album titled ‘Number of the Beast’ which is also a novel by Heinlein, but he certainly did not invent the phrase.

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Yeah it’s a great word!

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I think she’d be better off finding someone whose focus is flute. They’re going to have the best insight on embouchure, etc. I certainly wouldn’t want to take bass lessons from a guitarist who also plays bass. :slight_smile:

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No offense taken at all. Just defining the word for anyone unfamiliar with it.

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If you’re at the point of learning the mechanics of playing the flute probably, but then it doesn’t seem like it would matter much what their genre focus is.

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Playing jazz in particular, on any instrument, requires having much more than a passing acquaintance with music theory. In fact, it is crucial to know theory.

Beyond that, anyone who aspires to play jazz must master arpeggios and scales in order to be able to improvise effectively. Improvisation is the key to jazz.

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Well, this one time at band camp, :joy: sorry I couldn’t resist.

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Yeah I think that that case with my wife - she was at music school when she was little (piano, flute and singing) and she just doesn’t want to play now. I think the regimen was just about hammering music theory into the kids and teaching them to act like little instrument players who could follow music.

Now she just listens to Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa :confused:

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Wasn’t it slang from 2000 AD comic? Like zarzjaz or squaxx dek Thargo?

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The word “grok” was coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.

It’s a great novel that is well-worth reading for many reasons.

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The word grok went globally known in the counter-culture in the 60s and 70s.

Many latter-day uses were made by descendants of Heinlein readers.

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Sorry, I never read that comic. I do remember hearing the word used in TV shows and online communities around that time. I have no idea what started the sudden popularity of the word.

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Mea Culpa @MikeC. Tonight I was watching @JoshFossgreen on his YouTube lessons (This one was about Bass chords) and he used the term ‘grok’. Obviously the term is used more than I had thought.

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:+1:

Josh is very much a descendant of Heinlein culture. :wink:

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I have two suggestions:

  1. Apologize and spend the next 30 days exceeding her expectations
  2. Find times to be on the forum when she is otherwise occupied.
  3. Invite her to be part of the forum with you.
    Happy wife = more bass - happy life :slight_smile:
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Yes, I do. It took 2 divorces to figure out what I needed in a partner. :sweat_smile:

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I’m glad you finally found the right person. I think everyone deserves to have a supportive partner. I wouldn’t be where I am today, wouldn’t be the person I am today, without my wife’s support.

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