week 44 notes

[katreich]

Monday: the man on the mountain- possible song title/theme.

Tuesday: Had a melody in mind yesterday for "the story of you and me" , and of course, it vanished from my conscious mind.
Try to bring it back and at least do a scratch recording so it doesn't go missing again.

Wednesday : "the king of the idiots lives on the hill"

Thursday : I got nothing.

[Nick]

Where did that come from? I had a similar idea thinking about David and Karen and the floods.

[dhodge]

I think that would make it "The Old Man in the Mountains." Like they used to have in New Hampshire

Peace

[Chris C]

Monday: the man on the mountain- possible song title/theme.

A well deserved promotion for The Fool on the Hill?

[katreich]

Great minds do think alike Nick, I thought of this in the middle of the storm coverage as well.
Chirs, I will also admit to having "fool on the hill" come back at me too, but knowing David, I thought he would be the first to post it as an alternate title.

[dhodge]

You guys are great but I think I passed the "fool" status ages ago. "Complete Idiot on the Hill," maybe?

Peace

[katreich]

You realize David, that you are going to make it impossible for me to write a straight song now, right?

[katreich]

Wednesday:
The king of the idiots lives on a hill......

[dhodge]

...it's been raining all year and he's living there still...

And, to use for the last time through:

...it's been centuries gone but he's reigning there still...

Peace

[Nick]

So Kathy, do you have an iphone, ipod, phone with voice recorder on it?

I think that is next week's task. Record snippets of melodies.

[katreich]

Nick, I have a Razr, and if it has a recorder on it I'm not aware of it. Would I just call myself and leave a voice mail?

[Nick]

ooooh....cool idea

[Chris C]

Would I just call myself and leave a voice mail?

Great idea.

One of the many things on my "to do" list is to improve my interval recognition. One hoped for application is to be able to jot down melodies that way - as a series of intervals, or scale degrees. I tend to think like that with chord progressions (I, IV, vi, V etc) as it makes changing to another key simple. When working out patterns on the guitar neck I do the same thing - pick a 1 and then I'll know where 7 is (right next to 1), the 3 and 4 (on the next string across) etc. So 1 , 3, 4, 5 is "Oh when the saints" and so on.

It might look a bit odd, but - like most people - I have reasonable relative pitch but not perfect pitch. So I can notate a melody without knowing what note I started on. I can then play it in any key, anywhere on the neck, without needing to know either the written notation or the note name (F# or whatever) for that fret position. It also gives an interesting visual map of what the melody is doing in a structural sense. Or that's how it seems to me...

But using the phone is a whole lot quicker!!

.... he's reigning there still...

Superb!

[MrEWorm]

Kat, are you going to the Fox Valley Folk Festival in Geneva this weekend? Lots of song writing, guitar playing and singing talent will ne there:: http://foxvalleyfolk.com/
Cathy Barton & Dave Para ----- Andrew Calhoun ------ Andy Cohen
Judy Cook ----- February Sky ------ Tracy Grammer ------ Anne Hills
Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins -- Harmonious Wail -- Jeni & Billy
Li'l Rev ----- David Massengill ----- Mustards Retreat ----- Jim Post
Sparky & Rhonda Rucker -- Sanctified Grumblers -- Small Potatoes
Claudia Schmidt ---- Michael Smith ---- Ed Trickett ----- Chris Valillo
Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Créole

Many of these people will be putting on worksops too.

[katreich]

thanks for the heads up MR E!