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Playing Backwards and Chords

posted 29 Jan 2010

Samantha introduced some music theory into the lesson today. This included how chrods work using the example of the A major scale in Go Tell Aunt Rhody. I don't grasp the entire concept but the guitar + violin on Go Tell Aunt Rhody sounded nice.

I will work out the chords she wrote down (Virtual piano makes this easy and fun) in the music and post the engraving. It will be a good experiment in using lilypond.

If someone has recommendations for an intro music theory book let me know.

We worked on the Greenwood tree quite a bit more today and I have all of the measures down indivdually pretty well. Still need to work on the second to last measure that has F#3 G E. It is very hard for me to keep the time in my head. Also I keep dropping part of the 6th measure which throws my bow and timing off. Work in progress.

The big trick in working on Greenwood was playing backwards. Start with the two notes giving you trouble, then move back a note, then back a measure, the back and forward a measure until things smooth out. Do not play through. Stop, correct the mistake then continue. I spent a lot of time unlearning things this week because I just played through without stopping.

Songs I am working on: - Greenwood Tree - Go Tell Aunty Rhody

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Brandon Philips by Mujtaba Ali

ifup.org is the weblog of Brandon Philips and contains excerpts from my code, work and play.

I write Linux software and work on the systems layer of Linux. In the last two years I have helped to organize Linux Plumbers Conf and Freedom HEC Taipei. It has been rewarding to bring together these communities to discuss current Linux issues.

Robotics is another passion and I had the opportunity to mentor a FIRST Robotics team in Portland recently too. I also continue to work with my friend Ron Jackson to build some neat USB devices for robotics.