What's up in your life right now???

[m19834]

*only* in music? Not necessarily. But it is you as a creator and artist who decides what to express and how.

I have heard you play d-f-g as a chord I so never heard before, though this combination appears otherwhere in music. But the "context" you played it in was different. Analysis comes afterwards. Creation is first.

Okay, Wolfi, I understand, thank you .

[m19834]

Maybe, just maybe, the kiss of pure magic is what's up in my life right now .  One day it's going to kiss you, too .

[m19834]

(...) you can think of d minor as a(n) Dorian chord, a Phrygian chord, or an Aeolian chord (and each of these modes could be considered "minor" or so).

Wait, no, no.  d minor is only Dorian (and originally Dorian) and a once-removed Aeolian -- I forgot what I was thinking.  It only acts as a Phrygian in a Bb Ionian model (a twice-removed scale) ... argh ... but never has the true makeup of a Phrygian chord, it only has the model of the makeup when you "imagine" the key signature around it.  I think.

All scales are some variation of or built into the original C Ionian.  Then, there is the sharped version of C Ionian and the flatted version of C Ionian.   Everything is built upon that, borrowing from each other as needed.  I think.  arghy.


DO (emits light = emits chromatic color and embraces all)

[m19834]

Synthesis is what's up in my life right now, I believe.  It's quite an experience .  It's as though everything I've ever been, and so much of that having seemed to be different "parts" to me (like athletics, drawing, writing, music (voice, composition, improvising, piano ... etc)), it's as though it's all becoming one.  I know that truly it has always been one, but it's been a rough ride  .  Still a bit shy about it though and having trouble letting it show.  Step by step.  I think that must just be Monsty.

*pets and loves and accepts Monsty*

[thalbergmad]

athletics

The one thing i miss about my youth is track and field.

There is not much on earth that is more exciting than a javelin competition. Now, i have to sit and watch.

Thal

[m19834]

The one thing i miss about my youth is track and field.

There is not much on earth that is more exciting than a javelin competition. Now, i have to sit and watch.

Thal

I threw javelin .  I did throwing events, though I had wanted to run, also.  Track and Field was fun, but my first love was basketball; it involves so much.  While I don't have the desire to let athletics take up music time, I do miss that feeling of being in great shape and feeling super strong.  I used to weightlift everyday, too.  My ideal life would be focused and intense Music study for 10-12 hours a day and exercise for 2-4.  Then drawing or whatever else I wanted besides sleep (an average of 6 hours/day) for the rest of the time.

*daydreams*

[thalbergmad]

Basketball for some reason has never really appealed to me. Perhaps because i was no good at it and i am a shortarse.

However, one of my fondest memories when i was young was going to see the Harlem Globetrotters when they came to London. They had as much artistry as any pianist.

Thal

[littletune]

Next week my music theory starts! which is cool! but what I don't like so much is that we will have a new teacher  and also we'll be together with some older kids (like 15 and 16)  cause last year there were three second grades (well grade 1 and grade 2 together) and this year there are just two 3rd grades for music theory so we'll be together with some other people    And also we have to buy a new book (well I knew we would have to) but it's not the book I thought we would have but just some other book  Last year we had a book called just Music theory 1 and it was for grade 1 and 2, and there are this same books for other grades too like Music theory 2 and 3 and 4 and I was already looking at them and I thought we would have those! Cause I liked the way they looked! But now it says we have to buy (for grade 3) a book called Young musicians 3 which sounds kinda more cool than just Music theory... but I have never seen that book so I don't know what it's like  oh well we'll see   

[birba]

Next week my music theory starts! which is cool! but what I don't like so much is that we will have a new teacher  and also we'll be together with some older kids (like 15 and 16)  cause last year there were three second grades (well grade 1 and grade 2 together) and this year there are just two 3rd grades for music theory so we'll be together with some other people    And also we have to buy a new book (well I knew we would have to) but it's not the book I thought we would have but just some other book  Last year we had a book called just Music theory 1 and it was for grade 1 and 2, and there are this same books for other grades too like Music theory 2 and 3 and 4 and I was already looking at them and I thought we would have those! Cause I liked the way they looked! But now it says we have to buy (for grade 3) a book called Young musicians 3 which sounds kinda more cool than just Music theory... but I have never seen that book so I don't know what it's like  oh well we'll see   

I swear, only you could get excited over a theory book!  You're like a puppy seeing the world for the first time and everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is cool!   

[oxy60]

Hey Thal, did you see the match on Wednesday night where Sir Alex rolled into town and showed the locals how to play the game? Did the commentators tell you that the match was played in the waning hours of a general strike? We all held our breath and that large exhale you heard from down South was from us.  

[littletune]

I swear, only you could get excited over a theory book!  You're like a puppy seeing the world for the first time and everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is cool!   

Yeeesssss I'm a puppy I'm a puppy!!!          I think we should get some jumping smilies here! sometimes I feel like jumping         
Well I wish I could be so excited about school too i was for a while.... till last year  but now I'm not very much anymore     
Oh and I didn't say yet... on Wednesday when I had my piano lesson my teacher told me I have to get new books (with piano pieces).... cause now I'll be playing more difficult ones (not the ones for babies anymore  ) although I'll still be playing some baby pieces by myself cause I like them... but my teacher says they're too easy for me already..........  I mean I still wanna play the baby pieces ( the easier ones), but I'm really excited about the new ones too!!!      And my teacher wrote in my notebook (the one I have for piano lessons- I have a new one this year with a doggy on it and it says What's new  ) well and she wrote 6 or 7 books I should get!!!  so that's a lot of money too, so she said I don't have to get all of them right away..... now I have to get two of those books.... and the others later, and I'll have those books for two or even three years........ And she wrote numbers like which ones I should get sooner and which ones can wait. And the first one I have to get is: Sonatinas and Sonatas  and the second is just Piano pieces 3 (I already have this book Piano pieces 1 but I don't have Piano pieces 2  and it annoys me! cause I have book 1 and I'll have book 3 but I won't have 2    ) well this two books I have to get now and I can't wait!!!!    and then I should also get some Slovenian folk songs 2 (i have 1 already  ) and Etudes 3 (and i don't have 1 and 2  ) and then Bach (small pieces or something like that) and two other books if I want too  . and I said that I will ask if I can get other books (the ones I can't get now) for Christmas!!    And my teacher said great that's the way to do it!     
Oh and on Wednesday that doggy first wasn't outside, but he was inside (in the house where my music school is) and I mean I didn't see him but I heard him. And you know what? He has music lessons too!!!      . When I was waiting for my piano lesson I heard someone playing piano, and someone playing drums and..... a squeaky toy!!!    And that was the doggy  He has squeaky toy lessons!          And then after my lessons he was already outside too and he is sooooo cute and sooooooooo coooool!         

[pianowolfi]

Yeeesssss I'm a puppy I'm a puppy!!!          I think we should get some jumping smilies here! sometimes I feel like jumping         
Well I wish I could be so excited about school too i was for a while.... till last year  but now I'm not very much anymore     
Oh and I didn't say yet... on Wednesday when I had my piano lesson my teacher told me I have to get new books (with piano pieces).... cause now I'll be playing more difficult ones (not the ones for babies anymore  ) although I'll still be playing some baby pieces by myself cause I like them... but my teacher says they're too easy for me already..........  I mean I still wanna play the baby pieces ( the easier ones), but I'm really excited about the new ones too!!!      And my teacher wrote in my notebook (the one I have for piano lessons- I have a new one this year with a doggy on it and it says What's new  ) well and she wrote 6 or 7 books I should get!!!  so that's a lot of money too, so she said I don't have to get all of them right away..... now I have to get two of those books.... and the others later, and I'll have those books for two or even three years........ And she wrote numbers like which ones I should get sooner and which ones can wait. And the first one I have to get is: Sonatinas and Sonatas  and the second is just Piano pieces 3 (I already have this book Piano pieces 1 but I don't have Piano pieces 2  and it annoys me! cause I have book 1 and I'll have book 3 but I won't have 2    ) well this two books I have to get now and I can't wait!!!!    and then I should also get some Slovenian folk songs 2 (i have 1 already  ) and Etudes 3 (and i don't have 1 and 2  ) and then Bach (small pieces or something like that) and two other books if I want too  . and I said that I will ask if I can get other books (the ones I can't get now) for Christmas!!    And my teacher said great that's the way to do it!     
Oh and on Wednesday that doggy first wasn't outside, but he was inside (in the house where my music school is) and I mean I didn't see him but I heard him. And you know what? He has music lessons too!!!      . When I was waiting for my piano lesson I heard someone playing piano, and someone playing drums and..... a squeaky toy!!!    And that was the doggy  He has squeaky toy lessons!          And then after my lessons he was already outside too and he is sooooo cute and sooooooooo coooool!         

  Huge Smile

I mean why not play "baby pieces" if you love them? I'd do the same

There isn't anything like "too simple". Just enjoy it

[birba]

Well, it's about time you got some "real" music into your repertoire.  I'm not putting down your baby pieces, you can still play them and you should.  On your own.  You're very capable of doing that.  And it will help you.  But, just think, your teacher had you skip grade 2!  That means she sees you are more advanced then you thought.  Good for her and good for you!!        

[chopinmozart7]

Yeeesssss I'm a puppy I'm a puppy!!!          I think we should get some jumping smilies here! sometimes I feel like jumping         
Well I wish I could be so excited about school too i was for a while.... till last year  but now I'm not very much anymore     
Oh and I didn't say yet... on Wednesday when I had my piano lesson my teacher told me I have to get new books (with piano pieces).... cause now I'll be playing more difficult ones (not the ones for babies anymore  ) although I'll still be playing some baby pieces by myself cause I like them... but my teacher says they're too easy for me already..........  I mean I still wanna play the baby pieces ( the easier ones), but I'm really excited about the new ones too!!!      And my teacher wrote in my notebook (the one I have for piano lessons- I have a new one this year with a doggy on it and it says What's new  ) well and she wrote 6 or 7 books I should get!!!  so that's a lot of money too, so she said I don't have to get all of them right away..... now I have to get two of those books.... and the others later, and I'll have those books for two or even three years........ And she wrote numbers like which ones I should get sooner and which ones can wait. And the first one I have to get is: Sonatinas and Sonatas  and the second is just Piano pieces 3 (I already have this book Piano pieces 1 but I don't have Piano pieces 2  and it annoys me! cause I have book 1 and I'll have book 3 but I won't have 2    ) well this two books I have to get now and I can't wait!!!!    and then I should also get some Slovenian folk songs 2 (i have 1 already  ) and Etudes 3 (and i don't have 1 and 2  ) and then Bach (small pieces or something like that) and two other books if I want too  . and I said that I will ask if I can get other books (the ones I can't get now) for Christmas!!    And my teacher said great that's the way to do it!     
Oh and on Wednesday that doggy first wasn't outside, but he was inside (in the house where my music school is) and I mean I didn't see him but I heard him. And you know what? He has music lessons too!!!      . When I was waiting for my piano lesson I heard someone playing piano, and someone playing drums and..... a squeaky toy!!!    And that was the doggy  He has squeaky toy lessons!          And then after my lessons he was already outside too and he is sooooo cute and sooooooooo coooool!         

somebody is really using vivid descriptions.

[m19834]

At the airport with a delayed flight, people-watching and amusing myself by counting how many individuals belong to my mullet club (whether they mean to or not).  It may not be tomorrow, the next day or even the coming week, but I have resolved that my mullet must go. 

[birba]

Where do you keep your mullet? 

[ahinton]

Where do you keep your mullet? 

The frying pan's as good a place as any.

Best,

Alistair

[birba]

So I was right.  It IS a fish.  Karli, do you have a hatchery?  Maybe you keep them in a pond.  Good idea.  Only thing is, I wouldn't be able to kill it.  Did you know octopusses are intelligent rational living beings?  Well, rational in the sense that they can make calculations.  And the way they kill them by beating them on the rocks really irks me. 

[thalbergmad]

Where do you keep your mullet? 

Unless i am much mistaken, she is referring to her haircut.

Thal

[birba]

Haircut?!? You've got to be kidding.  Oscar Wilde was right:  "the english and the americans have everything in common except the language..." 

[Bob]

It's a fish, a haircut, and something to do with stars, or it is another word for five-pointed star.

https://www.925-1000.com/silverglossary4.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(fish)

https://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&biw=943&bih=389&gbv=2&q=define%3A+mullet&aq=f&aqi=g5&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1

Even more...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet


*Bob looks around suspiciously* That means there are schools of mullets out there....

[m19834]

Hey, man, I had no idear it were a fishy!  Nor a star, for that matter!  ThalyBear is right, I am speaking of my haircut ... meh.  I must go get another haircut before I wear this mullet back into style  .

[Bob]

In some places, the mullet never goes out of style.

*Bob does not want to go anywhere near those places.*

[littletune]

So yesterday I had music theory first time this year! It was ok   And we were writing dictations right away!  . It was scary because I almost forgot how to write notes  So I had 3 mistakes, because I just skipped one note and didn't even know... and I knew there was something wrong but I didn't know what  oh well It was cool anyway And I saw the doggy!      And this is what we were doing

[oxy60]

Also hanging out in airports and doing nothing else but people watching (the endless announcements and snoopers of my computer screen preclude doing anything else), I too have seen a "certain" haircut on women that has almost become a national uniform from certain countries.. My wife and I are almost 90% able to guess the nationality on sight.

[birba]

Do you have perfect pitch, Littletune?

[littletune]

Do you have perfect pitch, Littletune?

I don't think so    I mean when we write dictations our teacher tells us what the first note is and in what key the dictation will be. So it's not that difficult. (except if I can't concentrate sometimes or if I don't trust myself  )   

[birba]

Are you in school at a conservatory, or is musical dictation a normal school  subject in Croaxia?

[littletune]

You mean in Slovenia?  No we don't have musical dictations at school. I go to a music school where I have piano lessons and music theory....  And then at the end of the year we have exams  I had those last year for the first time. 

[birba]

  I'm such a jerk.  Slovenia, I meant.  Sorry. 
I did the same thing when I went to school.  I went to a music school in NY for lessons in theory twice a week.

[Derek]

I'm making a nintendo game. Yes, the original NES. That's what's up in my life right now, aside from piano.

[birba]

A three-month-old Jack Russel terror, er, terrier.  Name, Jackie.  Not very original, I know.

[littletune]

I'm such a jerk.  Slovenia, I meant.  Sorry. 
I did the same thing when I went to school.  I went to a music school in NY for lessons in theory twice a week.

Don't worry a lot of people mix up my country for some other countries.
do you have a puppy Birba?? 

[birba]

Yes. Jackie.  And life will never be the same again...

[littletune]

   You know that my second name is Jacqui  Which is kinda the same as Jackie just written in a different way.  You didn't even know that you named your puppy after me!       

[m19834]

What is up in my life right now is that I am a little, itsy bitsy partical.  A little musical partical.  And, I floated off the page of a composer from a different world's piece of music.  That guy lives in a deep cave type place, which is actually the middle of a dormant volcano and this volcano is so huge that it is an entire planet in the middle of another solar system.  I floated out of there.  That guy lives entirely alone on his own planet in the middle of a dormant volcano.  But, it's okay, because he has neighbors; one is a waterfall planet, for example, and they communicate by vibration.

And anyway, he accidentally cut one of his softer thoughts with a diamond thought, and a drop of thinking blood fell onto his piece of music and I sizzled out of that.  And so I floated away ... up, up ... and away.  And right now I am floating in another dimension, just being a little musical partical.  It's my very own prelude to life.  

Sometime I will turn into a fetus and then I'll be a baby and then I'll be somebody that people think that they know.  But, I'll still actually be that other thing deep down.  And, the first thing I'll invent is chocolate and then I'll form the entire earth into a huge marshmallow and roast it on a stick by the sun.  Then I'll eat it with the chocolate almost like a s'more, but those haven't been invented yet.  But don't worry, then I'll make everything normal again and nobody will even notice a single thing.

[Bob]

What is up in my life right now is that I am a little, itsy bitsy partical.  A little musical partical.  And, I floated off the page of a composer from a different world's piece of music.  That guy lives in a deep cave type place, which is actually the middle of a dormant volcano and this volcano is so huge that it is an entire planet in the middle of another solar system.  I floated out of there.  That guy lives entirely alone on his own planet in the middle of a dormant volcano.  But, it's okay, because he has neighbors; one is a waterfall planet, for example, and they communicate by vibration.

And anyway, he accidentally cut one of his softer thoughts with a diamond thought, and a drop of thinking blood fell onto his piece of music and I sizzled out of that.  And so I floated away ... up, up ... and away.  And right now I am floating in another dimension, just being a little musical partical.  It's my very own prelude to life. 

Sometime I will turn into a fetus and then I'll be a baby and then I'll be somebody that people think that they know.  But, I'll still actually be that other thing deep down.  And, the first thing I'll invent is chocolate and then I'll form the entire earth into a huge marshmallow and roast it on a stick by the sun.  Then I'll eat it with the chocolate almost like a s'more, but those haven't been invented yet.  But don't worry, then I'll make everything normal again and nobody will even notice a single thing.

[pianowolfi]

What is up in my life right now is that I am a little, itsy bitsy partical.  A little musical partical.  And, I floated off the page of a composer from a different world's piece of music.  That guy lives in a deep cave type place, which is actually the middle of a dormant volcano and this volcano is so huge that it is an entire planet in the middle of another solar system.  I floated out of there.  That guy lives entirely alone on his own planet in the middle of a dormant volcano.  But, it's okay, because he has neighbors; one is a waterfall planet, for example, and they communicate by vibration.

And anyway, he accidentally cut one of his softer thoughts with a diamond thought, and a drop of thinking blood fell onto his piece of music and I sizzled out of that.  And so I floated away ... up, up ... and away.  And right now I am floating in another dimension, just being a little musical partical.  It's my very own prelude to life.  

Sometime I will turn into a phoetus and then I'll be a baby and then I'll be somebody that people think that they know.  But, I'll still actually be that other thing deep down.  And, the first thing I'll invent is chocolate and then I'll form the entire earth into a huge marshmallow and roast it on a stick by the sun.  Then I'll eat it with the chocolate almost like a s'more, but those haven't been invented yet.  But don't worry, then I'll make everything normal again and nobody will even notice a single thing.

That's a really cool story It sounds . My nighty story for tonight

[m19834]

That's a really cool story It sounds . My nighty story for tonight

I LOVE, LOVE, bedtime stories.  You are right, it does sound.  I want to write a fugue and postlude (yes, postlude, not prelude) with a very secret life.  It started showing yesterday.  Yes, I actully WANT to write a fugue.  No, it's not because I want to be a dead composer.  My insides want to write a fugue.  My insides ARE a fugue  .

[pianowolfi]

I LOVE, LOVE, bedtime stories.  You are right, it does sound.  I want to write a fugue and postlude (yes, postlude, not prelude) with a very secret life.  It started showing yesterday.  Yes, I actully WANT to write a fugue.  No, it's not because I want to be a dead composer.  My insides want to write a fugue.

Yipp yipp

[thalbergmad]

I don't really like fugues, I prefer fantasias.

Thal

[Bob]

*still confused*




*and wondering what people ate*

[birba]

S'mores.  Yum.   

[birba]

  You know that my second name is Jacqui   Which is kinda the same as Jackie just written in a different way.   You didn't even know that you named your puppy after me!        

How do you know I didn't know?

[littletune]

How do you know I didn't know?

    Oh so maybe you did know   
what happened to the picture?  Will you post it again? 

[birba]

Can you explain again how you transfer it from photobucket.  Some times it works and sometimes it doesn't! 

[littletune]

Well the way I do it is that I click on the picture I want to post (in my album on photobucket) and then click on the code (it says IMG code, the last thing in "share this image") and when you click on that it copies it. Then when I'm writing a post here I just right click with my mouse so it shows some things and I click where it says paste and that's that. But Wolfi does something differently... I think he copies the link and then clicks here the "insert image" thing.....  Im not sure about that. I always do it like I said... Did you copy the right link? I mean the one where it says IMG Code?

[birba]

[IMG]https://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h466/Steven_Roach/JACKIE2016.jpg[/IMG
got it!  I think...  Jackie, a.k.a. Littletune   

[littletune]

How do you know I didn't know?

Yes I did it!!!!!!!!     

[birba]

You see?  When I clicked on the img thing, the yellow copied thing fades out!