FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for May 11, 2015

And his amplifier goes up to eleven…

How can such a thin kid have such fat fingers?

My Peavey Vypyr amplifier goes up to THIRTEEN! :)

In some countries (France, Germany and many Scandinavian countries) the H is used for describing B chords (don’t know why but they do). But the H chord is also used to describe someone who is pretending to be able to play chords but in reality just puts his fingers randombly on the fret board. Which seems to be what is referred to here.

Panel 2: closeup of an obscene gesture?

Actually, in France, they call notes and chords by these names: do ©, ré (D), mi (E), fa (F), sol (G), la (A), and si (B). Sharps are "dièse, flats are bémol. If a French source uses letter names, it generally uses B and not H.

I believe the word they’re looking for is "heinous.’

It’s all “Greek” to me! I can’t carry a tune in a bucket…

@JanCinLVYes, a G cord on the guitar is VERY close to the bird, especially if you tend to curl the index and ring fingers. Google “g chord guitar” and check out the pictures.

I call C♯m7 finger yoga. ♫ Because ♫

Where H is used, B is B♭ and H is B♮

Bach sometimes used the theme B-A-C-H

It’s not a question of “replacing the note names with solfege syllables”. That’s just assuming that English is somehow “more real” than other languages, which is ridiculous; if any language is the international language of music, it is Italian, and Italian uses the solfege names.

Try “horrendous.”

He must mean the German musical H.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-K6YB_nBXk

BWV 1080

@Arbitrary xkcd reference? :D