Just A Little More Music 🎶
Hi Ty-Folks! Our TyeNote Series is Back!
“Just One Quick Minute” and “Just A Little Bit Longer” are back and now have their own webpage all to themselves.
Now that the Holidays are over and we’ve started a New Year, we’re back on track at Tyenote’s Corner. We’ll be posting two new videos on this page and on my social media sites from my Just A Little More Music Series every month. It’s good to be back creating new content.
Just A Little More Music Series
You can continue to watch “Just One Quick Minute” and “Just A Little Bit Longer” in the Section Below and Read my Reflections and brief Analysis on my compositions. New video postings will be announced Once Each Month and uploaded right here on this webpage. You can also watch all my videos on any of these platforms, comment and like:
When a tune pops into my head….
I never know how they’ll turn out. Sometimes they’re pretty good. Other times, not so much. It’s hit or miss. You never know what you’re going to get.
All my off-the-top-of-my-head compositions are raw, underdeveloped works. In listening back, I can hear the potential laid bare and the missed opportunities lost in the spontaneity of the moment. But by recording them, I have the chance to discover and explore areas of possibility and develop full compositions.
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It’s roughly a one minute long (sometimes a tad longer), online series, showcasing original concepts and compositions made up right there on the spot.
This one-ish minute concept addresses, with respect, the fleetness of our precious time while being mindful to accommodate our abbreviated attention span.
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True to its title, this series adheres to the same basic concept of “Just One Quick Minute” except for one feature: the tunes run a bit too long to fit the one-ish minute parameters. But longer pieces allow for more adventurous journeys along the keyboard trails.
It Used To Be
It Used To Be
Memories inspired “It Used to Be,”. The slow sentimental piece wraps itself in nostalgia, tender reminiscence and wistful yearning for a bygone time. Childhood memories exploring and playing in my paternal grandfather’s beautiful garden next door; roadtrips to New Orleans in the Summer to visit my maternal grandparents and family and bang on my grandfather’s piano. Listening to my grandfather regale us on that same piano with ragtime tunes as my siblings and cousins horsed around in the background or danced all over the back porch. These reflections, as I composed this impromptu piece, represents just a snippet of innumerable precious memories.
Faded or sharp as yesterday, memories can never be replaced or repeated. They are priceless treasures stored safely in our metaphorical storage trunk, captured in snapshots and journals, letters and videos, e-mails, texts, social media posts and pages.; while we make room for new memories.
The piece begins in the Key of “C” Major, capturing the sense of a time that seemed would never end. Then as it progresses, it employs the use of Minor and Sus’ chords to fill in the melancholy color of remembrance and capture the sentimental feeling to relive those magical moments lost in time.
Falling
Falling
When I listened to the playback of this piece shortly after spontaneously composing it, I heard the song of “Falling”. The tumble of notes along the unwritten measures in my mind cascading onto my keyboard like a series of waterfalls beneath a sky filled with clouds and rainbows - or sun rays and moonbeams falling onto the face of the earth. Falling could be anything. It could be a falling star, the fall of leaves, the drift of snow, the drumming of rain showers or sprinkle of confetti. Maybe it’s a series of tumbling round offs and flips or the tumble of stacking cups or people pyramids, a Jinga game or the free fall before deploying a parachute. Maybe it’s simply falling in love. And yet, it could be just the Autumnal Season. Whatever “Falling” may sound like to you , it will take you on a little journey.
The Key in this piece maybe difficult to distinguish because of the various combinations of dissonant chords. The undulating progression uses a mix of Perfect 5th and 4th chords infused with an assortment of diminished and augmented clusters in rapid succession. This type of piece, one without a Key Center and Home Chord Resolution, is referred to as Atonal Music where the Tonal Center is deliberately absent. However, an argument might be made that this piece falls into the vein of Modal Ambiguity. Modal Ambiguity means the music has a weak or unclear tonal center. There is a blurring of the Major and Minor scales as the music subtly shifts between modes, crossing multiple scales. Modal Ambiguity emphasizes texture using rhythm or layered dissonant sounds instead of melodic harmony. The lack of a strong homing note, allows for an open, floating, irresolvable result.
Though I’m not 100% sure where “Falling” falls, (pun intended), I hold the belief that it shifts back and forth between Atonality and Modal Ambiguity, exhibiting a combination of both qualities; neither does it seem to center completely around a home Key. But some of you, especially my Tyenote Nerds, may agree or totally disagree with my assessment. I would love for you to share your knowledge, your opinions, your comments and questions. So go to my “Get In Touch” Page on my website or to my social media and post your comments. I appreciate your feedback!
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