mercoledì 5 febbraio 2025

A happy little post.

I read TC's post this morning and listened to a bit of the attached video. It seems that the 100-year-old fella might be moving to halt posts about windows, Catholicism and music practice.

"No more silly posts!"

I'm a bit worried about Rob playing his cello as a transposing instrument - 'a big violin'.

Well, I guess the world can survive a big violin. 

I glove you Rob. 

A Poneke glove.

Hey, except for clove, glove is the only proper noun you can make by adding one letter to the front of 'love'. Yes, yes, Peter will claim 'slove' to be a legitimate English word. I know he'll do this. Ah well, whatever keeps the old guy happy.

How's it going so far? Are you enjoying a bit of light relief?

Hey, and there is no truth to the rumour that Rob is looking to buy a capo for his cello.


If he did that, he might be tempted to sing folk songs. He'd have to keep The House of the Rising Sun in A minor. Actually, the open cello tuning could work pretty well for that.

Open strings: C  G  D  A

Chords: (in 6/8 time) || Am | C | D | Fmaj7 | Am | C | E7 | E7 | Am | C | D | Fmaj7 | Am | E7 | Am | (E7) ||

He could just play the root notes of the chords to get started. Then he could add 6ths and 5ths to make double stops:

|| A over C | G/C | F#/A | F/A  | A/C  | G /C | G#/B | G#/B | A/C | G/C | F#/A | F/A | A/C | G#/B | A/C | G#/B ||                                                                         

Well, there you go for today. Actually, Rising Sun might be easier in imagined violin tuning.

Ciao tutti.


6 commenti:

THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

Will the new ROB the Ice Cream Man sign off with "Ciao tutti-frutti"?

Anonimo ha detto...

They'd love that joke in Wainuiomata!

RBB

Anonimo ha detto...

Yeah, I suspected that.

Anonimo ha detto...

Oops, sorry, I was talking about a different joke. No one speaks Italian in Wainui. They just wouldn't get it. Please don't use that joke when you come here.

RBB

Rob ha detto...

I'll try those chords out later.
I saw a musician with a fretted electric bass use a capo a couple of weeks ago at church; though it's not a sin, I did think it just as well RBB wasn't there.

Anonimo ha detto...

Actually, using a capo on a bass guitar is a mortal sin.

RBB