{"id":2039,"date":"2017-06-30T01:45:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T08:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2017-06-30T01:45:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T08:45:40","slug":"the-upbeat-man-and-the-downbeat-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/semi-professional\/the-upbeat-man-and-the-downbeat-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upbeat Man and the Downbeat Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Azumi_flute-1024x342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2039-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.mp3\">https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: .8rem;\">(link to lossless flac file is below)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My husband is a rock musician. Through and through. Ask him to play anything &#8216;rock&#8217;, blues, even jazz, and he&#8217;s all over it. Ask him to play something more folk or classical, and he begins to suffer. He&#8217;s an upbeat man. I&#8217;m a downbeat woman. I look for the beat. He looks for the &#8216;and&#8217; between the beats. Trouble brews. Always.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of what we play &#8230;because that&#8217;s what he arranges &#8230;is classic rock &#8212; stuff written to emphasize the upbeat. And, of course, I play it like the downbeat woman I am &#8230;which makes for lively sessions with husband waving his hands in the air, singing out the upbeats. <span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>(I&#8217;d love to catch him on video doing that, but, well, that&#8217;s not going to fly. He&#8217;d be giving me his Beethoven impersonation. You know, stormy eyebrows?!)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, we did manage to get <em>In Memory of Elizabeth Reed<\/em> laid down, so, here, in all its upbeat glory, despite the downbeat woman on flute, is the audio of the culmination of today&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those who have the capability to play flac files, which are better sounding than .mp3s because they&#8217;re lossless, here&#8217;s that file:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2039-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/flac\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.flac?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.flac\">https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.flac<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>For those only capable of handling .mp3s, here&#8217;s that one:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2039-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.mp3\">https:\/\/www.zentao.com\/zentao_music\/In_Memory_of_Elizabeth_Reed.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/light-on-door-at-the-end-of-the-long-dark-catacom-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(link to lossless flac file is below) My husband is a rock musician. Through and through. Ask him to play anything &#8216;rock&#8217;, blues, even jazz, and he&#8217;s all over it. Ask him to play something more folk or classical, and he begins to suffer. He&#8217;s an upbeat man. I&#8217;m a downbeat woman. 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