I heard there was a secret Chord, that David played, and it pleased the Lord. Behold! The God Chord. It has all the notes; the Gamut. To play it, or any of the 11 Sacred Inversions is forbidden, but here it is anyway. Just drag over the colored unstemmed noteheads. Men are flat. Women are […]
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The Schumann Scale
It’s an arpeggio. No, It’s an octochord. No, It’s the lick of Thunder and Lightning. Black unstemmed noteheads played on HAARP THE SCHUMANN SCALE is based on extremely low frequencies (ELF) in the Earth’s electromagnetic field. Lightning strikes create electromagnetic waves in our atmosphere, which excites the Schumnan Resonances. The global averages are listed above, […]
The Pi Tone
Drag your cursor across the black unstemmed noteheads. THE PI TONE is derived from multiplying a tone, any tone, by the transcendental number Pi. In the above example, when the E is multiplied by Pi, you get a tone slightly flatter than a high C. This is the Pi tone. Written out as an equation […]
The Train in Spain Falls Majorly on the Fade
Trains are in major keys, just like cars. The rhythms of the railroad helped shape Jazz and Rock music, like the shuffle of the human heart and the swung gait of a walking horse, major trains in 4/4 paved the way for the dominance of drumming in all music (after a brief buoyant classical period), […]
Goooooooooooooose
Canadian Geese are musically dimorphic[1], meaning goose males and goose females sing different songs, or in this case, different notes. The male goose sings “a-honk” in F, and the female goose sings “a-hink” in G. Between the couple, is the interval of a whole tone. Drag over ‘dem noteheads below. Try rolling the mouse back […]
The Snappy Slap Hand Canter
It’s hand jiving time―time to break out your 3-lined white gloves, just like the kind Mickey and Mario wear (the kind Hamburger Helper Helping Hand is). Roll over the three hands below from left to right. Try it slow. Try it fast. Try it backwards. To get a canter rolling, you’ll need to make counterclockwise […]
Hipporhythmics: The Four Horse Beats of the Apocalypse
Zoomusicologists are just now beginning to understand the enormous influence non-human animal music has had on the development of human animal music. The three traditional aspects of music―melody, harmony, and rhythm―are not uniquely human at all, and were in fact copied from our fellow animal musicians. Songbirds showed mankind how to whistle melody, in Major […]
