… I think it’s pretty cool that I teach things as disparate as
Music theory, about Harmony, and Wagner, and
African Music and some Dance
Category Archives: Music Theory
do something yourself
yeah…. ‘steada depending on others to provide YOUR opportunities for stimulation (and money,) not to mention livelihood, that is, adhd-high-stimulation,
do it your fuckin self.
why have I so often just opted to find something that’s awesome enough, and just BE part of it, rather than MAKING one myself….
given, I haven’t done this when there IS no “thing” in a given area, I HAVE gone and made my own in said cases.
perhaps I should ALWAYS do this.
self-helping inDEed
I love “pretending” to play Beethoven
that moment when you
1. thanks to your perfect pitch, have “ascertained” what a large majority of the pitches are in a small fragment of a Beethoven piano sonata…
2. use your wiles and said perfect pitch to “finagle” “enough” of it to
3. actually play it as an example of, say, a fully diminished vii^o of V, in a music theory class, and as a result
4. your students “actually” think you play piano….:):):)
why this tagged Wagner? cause Wagner dug Beethoven and there IS no Beethoven tag
Music and In the Moment
I almost feel sorry for people who can’t be in the moment enough to totally love playing and listening to wonderful (Brazilian in this case) music so much that it is life, pure joy, right now, never before, never after, always now.
ain’t necessarily an endorphins thing, though they seem to do this sometimes also.
just an in the moment thing.
and a love harmony and rhythm (or melody) thing.
Guess I’m just lucky, and man life would suck if this wasn’t enough.
me blessed.
yay music.
7/16 against 2/4
nothing like 7/16 at the same time as 2/4 (that is. 8/16)
7 against 8 every two beats…. oh yeah. what kinda crazy people (INDIANS) made such music?
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/59634254
it’s at 23:45if you’s impatient
music to the film JUPITER ASCENDING.
the soundtrack to the Wachowski (formerly brothers) film
JUPITER ASCENDING.
I kinda like.
it’s amusing and amazing to me that I, a weirdo of harmonic tastes, can appreciate a simple
f minor to DbM major progression, repeated.
then again, Steve Reich uses exactly that progression (in music for a large ensemble, even in the same exact key)
in TONS of his pieces.
Bb D E A
at a coffee house
asked what the song playing is
they don’t know
no smart phone.
the song now is in g dorian…
and has a fender rhodes every two bars playing
Bb D E A G….
BbM #11…
love
somebody please remind me to
somebody please remind me to
1. leave my laptop at home
2. actually go out without it.
3. read THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOPENHAUER and
4. listen to WOTAN’S MONOLOGUE in ACT II of DIE WALKURE by WAGNER
like daily until I finish.
seem to be happy when I do this. if only the book’d not end.
notes of the day, musical
G A E C
D C A F
E F Bb F
D# C….
know what this is, bro? here’s a hint. it involves maple syrup and a woman who’s father was a jarhead.
Jazz Is
Saw this today. Nice.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. – Ornette Coleman
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. – Sonny Rollins
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. – Keith Jarrett
Jazz to me is a living music. – Dexter Gordon
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. – Duke Ellington
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. – Cab Calloway
Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life. – Art Blakey
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. – John Philip Sousa
Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens. – Jimi Hendrix
Let there be bass. – Leo Fender
Life is a lot like jazz, it’s best when you improvise. – George Gershwin