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Singers! The Hymn is now complete. Rehearsals start next week. Please get in touch with me if you would like to sing it on the 5th of October. If you sent me your email address, I can send you recordings and the score to help you practise during the week.
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Yahoo readers back the 'No' campaign
I have just logged on to my email to read that the results of the survey are in and 'No' won. Now I see the home page of Yahoo - you know the Tabloid trash news - every day to get to my email. No survey was advertised.
Be careful of the marketing here. By saying that the 'No' campaign has won, "Sheep Tactics" are being employed. The fact is that no survey was advertised. Detect bias, that's all I'm saying, detect bias.
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I had a fun kick around at the Church picnic yesterday. My back really hurts now. Good pain, though.
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Arrgghh!! I the pupils are going back to school. I need to move some around the timetable and it's too full. It's a nice arrggh though.
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A friend told me that Seattle was full of Double Income No Kids (DINKs). Just wondering: is Dundee full of Half (an) Income (my) Cousin (is my) Kid (HICKs)?
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New Hymn for the Church! I have composed a new Hymn: it's for Choir and Organ - think traditional setting with lyrics relevant to today. It's being presented on the 5th of October. Would you like to sing it?
It's scored for SATB - mixed guys and girls - and it's purposefully not complicated.
Rehearsals will be directly after Church and it shouldn't take too long to get it together.
Please message me here or email me for more details.
Please share with friends even if you would n...
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The improve your musicianship thread 2014
Robin Thornton replied to Chris's topic in Musicians' Corner
Sorry. I was trying to help. There were those that asked questions. I did not expect such a rude response. Scotty, you take it from here. I'm deleting my account. -
The improve your musicianship thread 2014
Robin Thornton replied to Chris's topic in Musicians' Corner
Yeah, there is the 'So What' chord, the 'Hendrix' chord and the 'Tristan' chord. All of these are just chords and taken in a different context wouldn't sound as cool. That's for another day maybe. You said that you have difficulties with intervals: let me try and help. Firstly, do you understand what a note is? I don't mean playing a pitch on the fret board, but understanding that you are playing an 'A'. If not, I'd suggest that you get to grips with that before trying to understand harmony. This is why I gave a brief history on harmony: to combine notes, notes must be understood. Assuming that you're ok with notes, let's move on. An interval is the distance between two things - in this case notes. If a band was playing after the interval - you liked the band after the interval, but not the one before - and you didn't turn up until after the interval, would you have had an interval? No. You would have to have been at the gig before the interval, in order to have an interval. An Interval is the distance between two notes. A-B is called an interval of 2 because the note before and after equal a distance of 2. A-C is called 3 for the same reason. If you count on your fingers - I'm not being patronising, this really helps Kinaesthetic Learning - A-E, you will see that it is an interval of 5 - note in passing that C is on your third finger. A-C is an interval of 3 remember? When we say that triads are made up of 1-3-5, this is what we mean. -
Maria and Michelle are watching P&P. Has anyone noticed how out of tune the music is in that programme? I know I'm going to get slain for this comment, but the music's out of tune and it's bugging me.
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Good day's work. I looked at the clock and thought, 'I'd better get Caleb up to take him to J.M.Barrie's birthplace.' Well, I'll let him sleep for 20 minutes. In that time, I finished the second movement of my String Quartet.
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The improve your musicianship thread 2014
Robin Thornton replied to Chris's topic in Musicians' Corner
The point that I was making was that there isn't such a thing as Hendrix chords, they're just chords. I mean he could have just said 1-3-5, right? But, I explain them from there very basics. Learn notes then add an interval of a third and then an interval of a fifth above that and you have harmony. Harmony means to work well together. If you have three children and you are going on a long journey, you will know that sitting them with a space between each child is the best way for an harmonious journey. Don't sit them in seats 1,2, and 3. Sit them in 1,3 and 5 and they won't rub up against each other and annoy each other: that's harmony. -
Well this is fun! I am 4862 words into my book and I haven't even started on the researchy justificationy stuff yet.
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HELP!! IT people. I am trying to embed a form for the website. I am using Google and the don't seem to have an help page for debugging code. I have:
var body = name+' sent the following message: '+message;
var bodyHTML = '\
'+name+' '+email+' sent the following message: \
And I am being told that I have an Unterminated String Literal at line 35. Line 35 is that gap below var bodyHTML = '\. You know, the LINE WITH NOTHING ON IT!! I'm probably missing a colon or somethi...
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The improve your musicianship thread 2014
Robin Thornton replied to Chris's topic in Musicians' Corner
Chord Theory Jazz is a continuation from 19th Century Romanticism which, in turn, is a continuation from 18th Classicism and so on. Classicism takes us to this point (loosely speaking): Dm resolves to G7 which resolves to C i.e. F > F > E D > D > C A > B > C A > G > G Romanticism extends this to: F>F>E Db>D>C Ab>B>C F>G>G By the way this is all based on the principles of harmonics whereby the root (or fundamental) is the strongest note in the chords. The next in the harmonic series is a fifth higher (hence 'Dominant' or 'Power Chord' for all you rockers out there). The root and the dominant form the chord. The third wasn't added until Dunstable introduced it in the late Renaissance period - see harmony develops over time. The further up the harmonic series you get, the more tenuous the link to the root. This is way extended chords sound so good, but require careful resolution. F>F>E D>D>C C>B>C Ab>G#>G The example used is a two, five, one - ii V I - it is stable because of its relation to the harmonic series. I have coloured it with extensions, but not destabilised its inherent strength. Most Jazz songs are based on this chord progression, or equally strong ones, so that they may be coloured by extensions. Final thought: Study Classical Harmony in order to progress your Jazz. -
Point one: Headline, "England record medals haul at the Commonwealth games". Did England colonise or was it the UK? Was there ever a United Kingdom? Point 2: I looked up England win at common wealth games (just to check my facts) and Google predicted it as "England win common weather" and win had a red line to say that it was a spelling error. Is it 'win' that was spelt incorrectly, or 'England win' that was inconceivable to Google?
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As a teacher I have to ask, "What would happen if I bit someone?" Luis Suarez does and gets... In any other profession, the professional would cease to be a professional. Stop calling footballers professionals. That sport is disgraceful.
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Does anyone else have a problem with their Yahoo account freezing. Currently I can read emails, but neither reply nor send emails. This has been happening for a couple of weeks. Has anyone noticed anything?
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Caleb, "Is Uruguay a third world country?", me, "Um...", Caleb, "We can't blame Suarez: he may have been hungry."
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I know that Sport isn't meant to be political, but ITV seem not to be showing the England game in Scotland. This Kingdom is not United. Just saying.
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Ok so, dropped my laptop. I am using its dying breath to ask, "Do you have any suggestions? I am thinking about the ASUS T100 Hybrid. What are your thoughts?" gasp..gasp...slowly fading screen.
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Love nor money: Man alive! Where does one get a good Tailor near Banchory? I need a jacket altered: any suggestions?
