Oggi, poco dopo le cinque, guarderò la partita della nazionale italiana di rugby contro gli All Blacks.
In the style of 'third person' Rob I got rid of my four very short blog posts. I'll leave that style of blog writing to Peter. Talking of Rob, his blog posts have disappeared again. No big surprise there.
Peter's latest blogging attempts seem to be all about his bloody computer. Boring. Though The Whine Guy did go on about how wine is packaged. I had to speed read that one!
Shelley and I have had a long period of not feeling very well. Fortunately, though, our computer seems to be working okay. I have kept my practice up through this time, doing an hour of violin practice every day. Unfortunately the guitar and double bass have been missing out. I'll get them back up to speed when my energy levels rise.
I've been working on memorisation. I've also been working on the four dominant 7th scale fingerings. For those who haven't been paying enough attention to what I've written in previous posts, let me regurgitate. There are four possible ways to finger a major scale on the violin. Each major scale (there are 12 different keys) contains seven modes. These are called Ionian (another name for the major scale), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. These modes all contain the notes in the major scale but starting on a different note. For example, the Dorian mode in C major is D E F G A B C D. All these modes are very useful in Jazz, but the 'main' three are the Ionian (major), Dorian (minor with a #6) and the Mixolydian (also known as the dominant 7th).
Because these modes are all derived from the major scale, they will derive four fingerings from the major scale. They just start in different places. These 'main' three scales form a progression known as the II - V - I (or II - V7 - I). There is also a minor version of this progression but we won't go into that today.
Anyway, I'm working through the four Mixolydian forms and the four Dorian forms.
There you go.
That's all I have to tell you for today.
Stay warm and enjoy the rugby.
6 commenti:
It's so good to see you writing longer posts again.
You probably need a lie down now.
I feel safe now that Robert isn't around to check my grammar.
Yes, go the All Blacks.
The venue was sold out so I bought a Sky Pass to watch the game. Now Lynn has made arrangements for us to go to dinner at her cousin's place tonight.
Go figure.
"It's only a game" she says!
Only a game??????
You poor thing!!!!
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