Thanks to Emerging Indie Bands for featuring “As If It Were So”. The song title is taken from an old idiom meaning a “thing not exactly as described,” which only makes sense in its original form. College professors like to use the Chaucerian contraction “as it were,” as a fancy way of saying “pun intended.” […]
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Vai’s Melody
Steve Vai has a melody. It’s his favorite melody. He uses it everywhere. It sounds like something Frank Zappa hummed in the shower and Vai transcribed for electric guitar. Vai’s melody is made of major thirds. It’s in the key of A above and makes an A Major seventh chord in passing. It first appeared […]
Luciferean Chord
What happens to a man who’s exhausted every musical pleasure available to him? When he’s digested every possible piece of Pop and Prog, regurgitated centuries worth of progressions and melodies, what becomes of him? Such is not a man, but a dissonant shell of his former self. So lately, I’ve been into this dark little […]
Knock Knock Song
Have you heard this song come a-knock on your door? It’s like sonar, baby. Even without the melody, everybody knows this song from the rhythm alone. How many songs are identifiable as such, that you can play it on a door without pitch or timbre or nothing? Probably just this, William Tell Overture, “Immigrant Song”, […]
Holy Roman Melodies
Welcome new friends. This is now a Christian music blog, even though the Devil hast the best tunes. This blog has converted to Christianity, so no more tritones or synthetic scales. And no more Rock ‘n’ Rolla either. From now on, it’s all potato chip potato chip up in here.1 Behold and hearken the sacred […]
We Jammin’
There is a severe lack of improvisation in this world, in music and in life. Each day is scripted, habitual, routine, indistinguishable from the day before and the day after. The tide comes in, and the tide comes out. We march through eternity: left right left, death life death. Everything has happened once before, at […]
A lone a last a loved a long the Lydian
The Lydian Scale is a lovely scale indeed, reserved for pre-choruses, or to evoke the silly sounds of a circus, and often employed by hollywood composers for alien song, because we all know the universe has been socialized with music, as per Close Encounters and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Let’s take a look and […]
