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Old Sam Peabody stops by

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This morning was Random Note assignment # 298. One of the chords was a C diminished (which I insist on spelling C   Eb   F#   A ). I was trying to figure out how to connect this chord with another one in the group, and then outside the window I heard a faint warbling whistle at the birdfeeder. “Old…Sam…Peabody Peabody Peabody”.

F#  F#     Bb  Bb  Bb     Bb  Bb  Bb      Bb  Bb  Bb

I made use of that suggestion to build an Eb minor 6 chord      C   Eb    F#    Bb

Thank you, Old Sam!

I was a bit brain-spinny at the piano this morning. Here are some of the thoughts I scribbled onto my manuscript paper

  • “I’m thinking about, when I get my 70 dice, I can toss them all at once! There will be some phrases that make sense. Put into Midinous, connect in interesting ways.”
  • About revising music from 3 years ago. “I’m going to treat it as if a friend had written it and gave me a box of stuff to complete. My job is to carry on her vision of the piece.”
  • “I have to balance: talking & writing ABOUT music vs actually making it”
  • “Trying to play these into a recorder is difficult. I can’t read my own writing. I’ve forgotten the chords already”

 

 

Morning Noodle Report

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I would love to be able to play arpeggios all up and down the keyboard. I can imagine how it would sound (“audiate”), but my hands can’t do it gracefully, and I certainly couldn’t read it! After doing the Morning Noodle I wrote some of it out in Finale. When I had written it by hand, the notes on ledger lines looked horrifying, like Terra Incognito. But when written neatly via Finale it looked less intimidating.

I can’t remember, when I was in elementary school did have trouble reading my own handwriting?

I played some modified arpeggios based on inversions of A minor. The pattern is: top note of the arpeggio, approach second note from underneath, third note of arpeggio, then bottom note and up one.

The chords I used are Fma7 (FACE) Dm6 (FABD), Asus2 (EABD) and Am in the 2nd inversion (EACE).

This could be over a bassline of F, G, A — the ol’ flat 6, flat 7, 1 of a minor scale.

That means that FABD is, like, a G9 with the G missing

Ending on an Am in the second inversion means it’s a cadence but not a perfect cadence, I forget what they are called. Imperfect?

I just remembered, there is a nice chord progression based on FACE FABD

FACE  FABD  EGBD  EGAC  /  DFAC  DFGB  CEGC

Fma7  Dm6    Em7     Am7   /    Dm7    G7        C

IV        ii          iii          vi       /    ii          V7         I