The Tyenote Series
When tunes pop into my head, I never know how they’ll come out. Sometimes, they turn out pretty good. Other times, not so much. It’s hit or miss. You never know what you’re going to get. There’s even a slight chance that you might hear something that sounds like it could qualify for Jimmy Fallon’s “Do Not Playlist” 😳.
At this time, there’s no set schedule for when new videos will post. The schedule was obliterated at the beginning of this school year. roughly every 2 week or so - in some cases, a few weeks.
In the meantime, for the foreseeable future, the setting will remain the same cozy, unremarkable location with which some of you are so familiar.
Just A Little More Music
Watch the Latest Posts of “Just One Quick Minute” or “Just A Little Bit Longer” on this Page Below and Read my Reflections on each new composition after the Video.
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Just A Little More Music
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Just One Quick Minute
It’s roughly a one minute long (sometimes a tad longer), online series, showcasing original concepts and compositions, some of which are 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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Just A Little Bit Longer
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 exploratory and developed works.
Running Through Grass
The intention behind this refreshing energetic composition was to capture the pure exhilarating joy of indulging in simple pleasures like binge watching a favorite series or running through a field of grass.
“Running Through Grass” utilizes “Sus” or Suspended 4th Chords throughout the piece, creating a mood of lightness and boundless possibilities. When using suspended 4th (Sus4) chording, the third of the standard major or minor triad goes missing and is thereby, replaced by the fourth scale degree, creating an open flexible modern sound. Add tension between the fourth and fifth or second and root, using dissonant notes creates the balance needed to get that ambiguous quality in the music instead of the easily identifiable major or minor, "happy" or "sad" chords. These are the basic ingredients that define the Sus4. Pop, rock, jazz, folk and classical widely use Sus4 chords to add a greater variety of sound-flavors, textures and colors to their music and open opportunities for more interesting and creative resolutions.
The experimental use of Suspended Chords in the early-mid 1950’s by notable jazz musicians like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Ramsey Lewis among others, challenged the norms of structured jazz. The forays of these accomplished musicians into the exploration and development of melodies, rhythms and harmonies through extended improvisations over musical modes, ushered in the emergence of Modal Jazz in the 1960’s. Sus 4 chords increasingly became a regular feature of Modal Jazz and other genres of music throughout the 1960’s and beyond.
As I maintain a bright hopeful tone with “Running Through Grass”, there are flavors of dissonance throughout the piece, lending a sort of unresolved optimism to the very end. Musically keen ears may likely note that the major and minor modes are not in use.
The unresolved conclusion of the composition is a metaphor of those experiences where you are having the best time and it’s cut short. For example, when you were a kid playing, say, with your friends, and the excitement and enjoyment reaches the levels of what my sister would call “the height of fun-ness”, suddenly cut short when your mom or dad calls you in for dinner or to come home or do your homework, etc, leaving you feeling suspended in the unresolved limbo of wanting more.
Past Two Episodes
Confusion
The concept is explained by the title. The uses the E-Phrygian Modal Scale throughout the entire composition.
Trial & Tribulation
The methodical progression and fluidity of this composition in B-Minor moves at a moderate pace. The expression of challenge and triumph are expressed in the undulating waves of minor arpeggios, shadow notes, chords of hope and a resolution of gratitude.
