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19 Dec 12 - 03:05 PM (#3454396) Subject: The Music Theory Song From: Jack Campin Interval stuff animated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF074CL5vjI |
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19 Dec 12 - 06:08 PM (#3454489) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: Ron Davies Excellent. What a find. For my money the best you've ever posted, Jack. Definitely going to memorize this--(maybe not by the 25th, though). I've thought for years "Meet the Flintstones" was in this. It's also in some classical pieces--can't remember which ones. |
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19 Dec 12 - 07:54 PM (#3454551) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: John P Hilarious! We've been singing this around work for weeks. It even turned up in the Christmas Carol sing at the company party. |
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20 Dec 12 - 12:11 AM (#3454613) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: GUEST,Stim It's hilarious, Jack, but you've posted a lot of great stuff--keep it up! |
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20 Dec 12 - 01:38 PM (#3454819) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: Ron Davies He's fine on music, certainly. On politics, not so much --e.g. Sudetenland parallel in Libya. |
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20 Dec 12 - 01:47 PM (#3454827) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: Jack Campin I don't recall mentioning the Sudetenland in that context. The obvious parallel with recent history is the Spanish Civil War (except that the American-backed guys in Libya are far more brutal, reactionary and imperialistic than Franco's mob, witness what they are currently doing to Mali). |
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20 Dec 12 - 02:13 PM (#3454854) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: GUEST,Stim Do you mean he's a lot like you, Ron?;-) |
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21 Dec 12 - 10:48 AM (#3455335) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: Ron Davies I try to make sense, unless I'm being sarcastic (which of course hardly ever happens)--and that should be pretty easy to discern. Anybody who thinks I don't make sense is invited to cite chapter and verse. And yes, Jack, you did draw a parallel between the West's attitude towards Libya and the Sudetenland crisis. I was suprised to see that post, but if you'd like I'll resurrect the thread and you can see it. You also smeared Franz Schubert, with a blithe, unsupported allegation that he was a pedophile. There is no proof of this--it is just an allegation. This thread goes a long way, of course, to offset these earlier remarks. This is a wonderful contribution to the store of knowledge. But the Net is the opposite of Love Story. Once something is in print it doesn't go away. That's a pretty good reason to try to make sense, I'd say. |
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21 Dec 12 - 10:49 AM (#3455338) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: Ron Davies "surprised" |
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21 Dec 12 - 04:24 PM (#3455469) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: Tattie Bogle Sent the link round a few friends with whom we've been struggling to play the original Mel Torme "Chestnuts" in basic key of G: bl@@dy awful chords, but great parody! Thanks Jack! |
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21 Dec 12 - 06:52 PM (#3455529) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: GUEST,Stim I'm confused, Tattie Bogle--the chords are very good, which is pretty unusually for an online jazz chart. If there seem to be way to many chords, it's easier if you recognize that a lot of the song is just the ii/V7 progression, which is basic jazz progression, only repeated in a number of keys(Dm7-G7,Gm7-C7, F#m7-B7, etc). If you can play Gm7- 3-x-3-3-3-x C7- 3-x-2-3-3-x- you can play all the different chords by moving up and down the neck. F#m7/B7 is on the 2nd fret,Dm7/G7 is on the Ninth, etc. After that, just walk through the chord progression a few times without playing it in rhythm. Just brush the chord once and give yourself what ever time you need to get the next one. After you do that a few times, it will start to fall together. |
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22 Dec 12 - 08:53 AM (#3455729) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: Tattie Bogle Sorry Stim, I was referring to playing it on piano, not guitar! And I'm not very familiar with playing jazz. |
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22 Dec 12 - 02:25 PM (#3455867) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: dick greenhaus For a dissimilar take on deconstructing a song, give a listen to Finest Kind's "John Barleycorn" |
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23 Dec 12 - 07:04 AM (#3456119) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: GUEST,Stim That's what you get on a folk music site;-) The trick is the same on piano, though, you just need to move the Seventh step in the Dm7 down a half step and you're playing a G7. |
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27 Dec 22 - 02:20 AM (#4160357) Subject: ADD: The Music Theory Song From: Joe Offer THE MUSIC THEORY SONG (Original parody lyrics by David Rakowski. Additional lyrics and vocal performance by Dave Swenson.) Octave moving to the mediant, Major 6th stepping down to do, Major seconds being sung by a choir, Chromatic alterations of the scale, Diatonic scale, descending scale to minor third, Major 6th, ii V-7 of IV, Major seconds with their ears open wide, will hear a pretty tritone tonight. There's minor sevenths in the bridge, There's also lots of minor seconds in the bridge, And every minor 6th is gonna try to hear the supertonic over V of V. A motif used to build this simple phrase Major 6th, five walks down to one, Although this phrase rises to a high leading tone, Drop a perfect fifth, Meet the Flintstones, Sing a perfect fourth two one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF074CL5vjI Melody "The Christmas Song" (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), by Robert Wells and Mel Torme |
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27 Dec 22 - 05:09 AM (#4160367) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: GUEST,Nick Dow Where are the plagal and authentic modal structures? (Safely tucked away with the headache pills!) Musicians are worse than computer programmers for making the simple sound obscure. There is an old saying if you do not understand a term in a paragraph of anything technical, ignore it. The piece will make perfect sense without it. (Ambrose Bierce?) |
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27 Dec 22 - 05:13 AM (#4160368) Subject: RE: The Music Theory Song From: GUEST The text on Jack's link has "Original parody lyrics by David Rakowski. Additional lyrics and vocal performance by Dave Swenson." Thanks. I added that to the lyrics post. -Joe- |