Which do you own or use??

LOL

I have been blessed to be able to hear a note and repeat it... and know if it's off key... but can't read music for the life of me

it's funny when I go see my friends band... the singer knows I am good with that... and he looks at me every time he hits a wrong note... to see the winch on my face... I just laugh at him... he usually just gives me a wink

he is amazed that I have never been in a band.... and can hear every wrong move he makes... as well as the keyboards... they played a Guns and Roses song... I could tell right away the guitar player was on the wrong scale... when i asked if I was right... he looked at me like I had three heads... and told me I was right

When I was in music school, when we had to take "aural dictation" (where they play a melody on the piano, and you had to write the notes down), they would make those who had perfect pitch transpose the notes up a weird interval.

Still not fair! :-)

I wouldn't be able to do that... no way no how... I don't even understand what note it is that I am hearing

just can tell if it's right or wrong

I was in the church choir for a while---had one of my students sit next to me & give me the beginning note---then I was sort of OK--then she went off to college as a music major & I quit the choir. She's back, having graduated from Ithaca, but can't find a permanent job--just subbing.

Ithaca College is an excellent school. Gooooo Bombers!

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Greg

I used to play clarinet so I know how to read music but I can't play by ear, but do know when someone plays something wrong...how does that work???
Hubby is going deaf because of working in machine rooms and riding harleys.

aaaaaaahhhhhhh a loud harley... miss that

My DH keeps threatening to replace his long ago Norton Commando.

The key is "sympathetic vibrations" vs. "non-sympathetic vibrations"

Wave lengths of sound work well with other wave lengths of "sympathetic" or certain, even divisions. That's what gives us pleasing chords. When the combined wave lengths are uneven multiples/divisions, you get that nasty slapback of vibration.

My favorite is called the "tritone" or Devil's Interval, which divides the octave directly in half, unsympathetically. Though it makes a perfect pivot pitch when modulating to the fifth!

eg ... from C to F#

The other one is the augmented 7th (or minor 2nd inverted) eg from C up to B

I need to get my piano tuned

When I was at the Sturgis Black Hills 50th Anniversary Rally in 1990, I keenly remember how my feet constantly tingled from all the motor vibes in the ground.

Ah .... fond, youthful memories.

nice!

Sympathetic vibrations are very pleasing.

I bought this T-Shirt there, but wore it so much I had to recreate the artwork and make myself a replacement!

Here's the back design

In fact, I just so happen to be wearing that shirt at the moment.

Scary

Cool shirt and vibrations info. I shall tell my DH that I am going to give the seedlings some 'sympathetic vibrations' I also now understand the song 'Good, Good, Good, Good Vibrations".

I have an album entitled "Music to grow plants by"

^_^

That is also cool. My plants all have very different musical tastes. Everything from the Queen Siam basil's 'I'm a Little Teapot' to the tomato's Aerosmith craze. I have to provide versatile sympathetic vibrations.

I love reading Willie's music posts - like having a conversation with my brain, sort of. Don't you mean C-Bflat, though? Major seventh, like "color my world", is kind of bland these days.

C up to B-flat is a minor seventh, or the common 7th.

They call it an augmented 7th because of the augmented 3rd?? I think??


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I didn't pay that close of attention in theory.

Then they get all into those Neapolitan Thirds, etc. too much!!!!!

Neapolitan sixth, I am sure you mean, and they are very delicious! Beethoven used them a lot, not just as a chord but as a whole key area, and they have a fifth relationship to augmented sixths, or A6. I'm sure everyone else is snoring by now, so we should probably shut up. . .

2s, 3s, 6s, 7s, basically come in major or minor. 1 (unison), 4, 5 and 8 (octave) come in perfect (or augmented or diminished). Augmented 7 would be an octave.

I HATED theory. Got my Grade 2 and that was enough of that stuff and nonsense for me. I do like the Italian terms though. They sound way better than the english.

I'm not snoring. I'm waiting for singing examples ^_^

Ah, see, I got my Masters degree in Music theory. (What a waste.) I love it.

yeah, Carrie! the sixth. I just remember there were three versions and they prepared for the dominant substituting for IV or ii.

That hurt! I think I'll stop.

i took one music elective in college - it was the classics - it was held at 1PM right after track practice and lunch - professor you put on a record that we would have to listen too and be able to tell who it was - that music put me to sleep in seconds - i fell asleep every day until the spring track season ended - then i was able to stay awake - the professor had me stand and introduce myself to the class as the new student - pretty funny - i apologized to him after class and explained the situation

took that one pass/fail

I admire your fortitude carrie. I just wanted to play and play and play. My music teacher was of a different mind though. Great teacher.

Excellent, excellent. Yes, German, Italian and French, but those names a fairly irrelevant and refer to the inner notes. All 3 kinds have the interval of the Aug 6th that sounds exactly like a min 7th but expands outward to V. A+! Next class we will explore the relationship of N6 to A6 in Beethoven.

LOL

Not fortitude, dahlia, just the way my brain works. Nothing I can do about it. I can't stop it, I can't help it, and I shouldn't get the credit for it - I was born this way. Can't play any instrument worth a hoot, could sing a bit when I was young and energetic, I was just glad to discover the name for the way my brain worked and lucky to find colleges that counted it as real school and not just funning around.

Can we study 'Flight of the Bumblebee' please Teacher Carrie?

I love the nuance and subtleties of the Partridge family, as interpreted by kazoo.

I have been trying to get more skilled with my keyboard's sequencer.

Here is today's attempt at playing into the sequencer an Orlando Gibbons song.

http://67.246.179.135/Gibbons2.mov

It's a little choppy. And I am not fond of the synth grand piano sound, but cannot record yet directly from the keyboards (just haven't set it up), so this is "interpreted" in GarageBand.

For Victor http://wayoutjunk.blogspot.com/2006/08/temple-city-kazoo-orchestra-some.html

Now you're talking dnut!

Good stuff, Dnut

Thank you, Willie, I enjoyed that.

My puter won't do Willie's file :(

very nice Willie... sounds like something my dance teacher played in ballet class