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On practicing vocals:
Can you consistently match pitches?
Can you consistently stay in key?
Can you identify the root note of any song?
Listening to a classical composition from 1957 (The American Scene, by William Grant), and it really brings a beautiful and eerie moo around existence, childhood, society, and nature. It’s a frame-breaker.
7/8 beat:
K- x- S- x- K- K- SS
KK SS KK Sx -x Kx Sx
There’s a neat illusion where it actually reads as 4 + 4 + 4 + 2 because of the snare spacing (it’s always on the 3rd of a 4/4).
Here’s that same beat written out as 4+4+4+2:
K- x- (3) S- x-
K- K- (3) SS KK
SS KK (3) S -
K- S- (now 3 is missing and it loops!)
And to make it really funky, it could st
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Harmony/rhythm is basically a space/time language that is mathematical (an octave is a unit of space, a measure is a unit of time, and it’s all about how you carve and layer within those units). Lyrics are obviously the linguistic half of it. In the most basic songs, a nice poem is la
... See moreLook into the 1960s shift from live performance to studio recordings. Obviously some bands like the Grateful Dead were the exception. And of course, live touring is still a big thing today. But I wonder if recording technology and distribution got to a point where “the master” recording was just place to focus songwriting efforts.
Folk idea:
X50403 (inverted G)
X05425 (A9/A13 … lol what?)
X32210 (Am/C in bass)
50403X (inverted D .. with a high-4?)
XX0331 (A# major) — also add a flat 5th
Oxxxx xxx# , x#xx xxxx;
D | 4>3;
F#m | #1>1;
A | 6>5;
Em7 | 7>7>5>1.