Awaken

I was just listening to this while doing the dishes. My mind created a video to go along with the music: an animation in black and white. There were intricate squiggly doodles for Rick Wakeman’s solos, and massive triangles of different sizes for the big block chords. It would be interesting to draw the song and analyze the song structurally. Where are the repeats? How many themes are there?

David Newman’s educational videos

I just discovered David Newman’s educational videos. He writes

I’m a classical singer, and I teach voice and music theory at James Madison University. I started this channel to support my efforts in teaching Sophomore Ear Training at JMU.

Hidden among the more boring videos on this channel are about 18 songs I wrote to teach elements of music theory.

I hope you enjoy them, and learn from them!

Here’s his channel

and here’s an example video. Modes again!

the Dominant 7 song

 

Trip down the rabbit hole 9/25

Last night I watched quite a few videos about the “monochord”, which I will post later. I was looking for other “nontraditional” string instruments — especially ones with drones. Here is an example of the hurdy-gurdy. This is in 11/8 time!