"Mama!!! Just killed a man, put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger now he's dead....Life has just begun! And now I've gone and thrown it all away. I sometimes wish I've never been born at all!!"
Pulled my trigger now he's dead....Life has just begun! And now I've gone and thrown it all away. I sometimes wish I've never been born at all!!"
(Not true, but accurate if you look at the lyrics of the original song.)
For those of you who know something about musical theory.... Yes I know there isn't really a B#...
For those of you who know something about musical theory.... Yes I know there isn't really a B#...
Well, actually there is: B# = C. Likewise F flat = E or to state the obvious:
C flat = B. The absence of a black note (half tone) does not mean that it does not exists. It merely means that it is hidden in plain sight. The white note C moonlights as B# if required. It is the same thing, sounds the same, looks the same on the piano, but can be made to look so much more sophisticated if you change the "name" or "clothes". ;-)
The visual appearance of something primarily designed as a machine producing sounds of a certain frequency when the appropriate connecting manipulating levers are pressed, is of no importance.... Well it is important just as far as the appearance influences the function. Thus it is a classical example of form dictated by function.
This soon becomes clear when playing a chromatic scale. In an octave scale, there are eight "notes". If one plays all the available notes in the octave on a piano, another 5 notes are added, the black "half tones". It is called a chromatic scale. In C major a scale will comprise of : C D E F G A B C. (Or in solfatones Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do) A chromatic scale will comprise of C C# D D# E F (E#) F# G G# A A# B C(B#)
And then back down the scale: B Bb, A, Ab, G, Gb, F, E(Fb), Eb, D, Db, C. :-D
Where am I going with all this, you may ask? Well, I am not quite sure, perhaps I was just exploring the back roads of my memory to see how much I can still recall of musical theory after 35 years of not doing anything musical.
On the other hand, perhaps the answer lies not in what is put up for display, but in what is not...
Thus exposing the lack of total knowledge of the subject.
I may still have enough knowledge of the subject to impress someone who has no musical theory background, but this will not cut the mustard with a seasoned musician.
Still..... If you are still reading this, it means that I managed to hold your attention with a thousand words saying absolutely nothing, apart from making some sort of statement that I know a little bit about the theory behind something as intriguing as music.
So you are probably expecting some revelation that all this leads to something bigger, something really interesting?
Well, I can try. Let's get back to the hidden C. (Stated as B#)
This lends another hidden implication to this meandering essay. Someone is posing as something he is not.... Or trying to be seen as clever...
Or translated from the (somewhat) hidden statement:
If you are acting Bohemian, Be sharp in a major way!!
OR: Do you see that 2bC=2B sharp in a major way? So..... RUC?? Or RUBb? Bb=A# So you can be flat and still be a sharp note!!!!
:-D
C flat = B. The absence of a black note (half tone) does not mean that it does not exists. It merely means that it is hidden in plain sight. The white note C moonlights as B# if required. It is the same thing, sounds the same, looks the same on the piano, but can be made to look so much more sophisticated if you change the "name" or "clothes". ;-)
The visual appearance of something primarily designed as a machine producing sounds of a certain frequency when the appropriate connecting manipulating levers are pressed, is of no importance.... Well it is important just as far as the appearance influences the function. Thus it is a classical example of form dictated by function.
This soon becomes clear when playing a chromatic scale. In an octave scale, there are eight "notes". If one plays all the available notes in the octave on a piano, another 5 notes are added, the black "half tones". It is called a chromatic scale. In C major a scale will comprise of : C D E F G A B C. (Or in solfatones Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do) A chromatic scale will comprise of C C# D D# E F (E#) F# G G# A A# B C(B#)
And then back down the scale: B Bb, A, Ab, G, Gb, F, E(Fb), Eb, D, Db, C. :-D
Where am I going with all this, you may ask? Well, I am not quite sure, perhaps I was just exploring the back roads of my memory to see how much I can still recall of musical theory after 35 years of not doing anything musical.
On the other hand, perhaps the answer lies not in what is put up for display, but in what is not...
Thus exposing the lack of total knowledge of the subject.
I may still have enough knowledge of the subject to impress someone who has no musical theory background, but this will not cut the mustard with a seasoned musician.
Still..... If you are still reading this, it means that I managed to hold your attention with a thousand words saying absolutely nothing, apart from making some sort of statement that I know a little bit about the theory behind something as intriguing as music.
So you are probably expecting some revelation that all this leads to something bigger, something really interesting?
Well, I can try. Let's get back to the hidden C. (Stated as B#)
This lends another hidden implication to this meandering essay. Someone is posing as something he is not.... Or trying to be seen as clever...
Or translated from the (somewhat) hidden statement:
If you are acting Bohemian, Be sharp in a major way!!
OR: Do you see that 2bC=2B sharp in a major way? So..... RUC?? Or RUBb? Bb=A# So you can be flat and still be a sharp note!!!!
:-D
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