{"id":1046,"date":"2025-01-16T01:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2025-01-16T01:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:49:53","slug":"old-sam-peabody-stops-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Old Sam Peabody stops by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning was Random Note assignment # 298. One of the chords was a C diminished (which I insist on spelling C\u00a0 \u00a0Eb\u00a0 \u00a0F#\u00a0 \u00a0A ). 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. &#8220;Old&#8230;Sam&#8230;Peabody Peabody Peabody&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>F#\u00a0 F#\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bb\u00a0 Bb\u00a0 Bb\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bb\u00a0 Bb\u00a0 Bb\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bb\u00a0 Bb\u00a0 Bb<\/p>\n<p>I made use of that suggestion to build an Eb minor 6 chord\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 C\u00a0 \u00a0Eb\u00a0 \u00a0 F#\u00a0 \u00a0 Bb<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Old Sam!<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit brain-spinny at the piano this morning. Here are some of the thoughts I scribbled onto my manuscript paper<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>About revising music from 3 years ago. &#8220;I&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I have to balance: talking &amp; writing ABOUT music vs actually making it&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Trying to play these into a recorder is difficult. I can&#8217;t read my own writing. I&#8217;ve forgotten the chords already&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning was Random Note assignment # 298. One of the chords was a C diminished (which I insist on spelling C\u00a0 \u00a0Eb\u00a0 \u00a0F#\u00a0 \u00a0A ). I was trying to figure out how to connect this chord with another one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-noodles","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}