Bach always tried to help his brother.

 He was always prepared to pop around if there was a problem.

When things got tough, he went to Allan Bach.

I reckon that this joke could really take off in Thorndon. Maybe at the tennis club?

I see that Robert is copying Peter's very short blog post format. Will he start wearing a raccoon hat?

You'd think that one goal of writing a short post might be to get your grammar correct. Well, after all, proofreading would not take long. 

For Rob?

Time's up.

I might do a 15 minute double bass warm up today. Just to get back into that instrument. Peter will probably throw in a Thorndon tennis club joke like, "How did Richard get inside his double bass?"

Then it'll be back to the violin. I'm playing a few tunes at an engagement party on Saturday. I like to be prepared for these playing opportunities.

I have my elder grandson coming around this afternoon. He is keen to spend time with his grandma. We're not allowed to give him ice cream because it will not be that long before his dinner time. We'd better stock up on nice biscuits. Harrison will turn 3 at the end of this month and, next month, Henry turns 1. Henry is very cute and seems to like my jokes. Hey, I am careful not to use Thorndon tennis club jokes. 

Well, that's it from me for this morning.

Robert tells us, "Have fun and go to the stations of the cross."

I think that 'stations of the cross' is a Catholic name for 'toilet'.

How did Rob know that I've just had a coffee?

Maybe Mary told him?

Cerca di goderti le tue visite al bagno.

Aeolian.

 This is the mode that the harmonic and melodic minors originate from. It is also known as the natural minor.

A B C D E F G A

The guy in the raccoon hat has set a trend of very short posts.

That helps me this morning because I have to head off to work soon.

I'll do some violin practice at work, before the students start coming.

Raaacccccooooonnnnnn! I'm off!

Dorian Day.

 D E F G A B C D

The Dorian mode is my favourite minor scale. Here it is, popping up on the day that TC promises (well, almost promises) to write a new post. How many rooms in his house are still awaiting a description?

"Hey! Where's my raccoon hat?"

"Ah, that's better!"

Well, we know that he can't show pictures of his tennis court, and he has covered the Berhampore golf course. 

Robert has a go at Adam and Eve in his latest post. I guess he'll be attacking Lucifer next.

I did some work on six of my ten unaccompanied violin pieces yesterday, as well as working on 3/7 chords that work over a II V7 I progression and 6th and 5th double stops. I'll look at the other four unaccompanied pieces today and hopefully revisit some of the other six. I've learnt that, when you are memorizing pieces, you need to get away from having a written copy in front of you. That evidently slows down the process. 

Hey, I just had a thought. Maybe Peter could write a nostalgic post about these boots?

 We just have to hope T.O.G. doesn't decide to work from home today. 

Okay, I'm off to work.

Let's hope that I'm reading a new post a bit later in the day.

Ciao tutti. 

Resting on couch.

 

The shortest blog post ever.

 They don't get much shorter than this.

I think the title might refer to tennis. The post drew four comments. Three comments just contain silly things but, in one comment, the author claims that it was a rather long post that mysteriously disappeared. 

I'm guessing that he might have upset the people who watch over blogs.

Here are some things that might have got the post censured:

• Playing tennis, and then a shot of the ball going into a toilet.
• A man playing tennis with no pants on (they evidently do that quite a bit in this suburb).
• People using toilet brushes instead of tennis rackets.
• The tennis court being the wrong shape (eg. a circle).
• An old man, known to the author, playing violin by the side of the court and distracting people working in buildings nearby.

I guess there might be a few embassies in that part of town, but I can't see a person whose surname ends with Donald being a threat to the identity of any country leader. I mean, who would think up Donald Putin or something similar? No, I'm going to go with the tennis court being the wrong shape.

The only way for any of us other bloggers to write a shorter post would obviously be to have a shorter title. "My Post' would do the trick, but a post titled "A" could only really be beaten by a post with no title at all. Well, I guess that's something to think about.

I'll watch with enthusiasm.

Lydian Mode Day.

 

Today celebrates the mode that contains a tritone (Others do too, but not right at the start.). In the very old days the tritone was known as the Devil's Interval. I'm talking about F to B, when the key is C major and the Lydian mode begins on F. It is also built around a major 7th chord. What a mode! The tritone is a popular sound in Jazz.

The old boys? What are they up to this morning?

I see that Peter has gotten rid of his picture of the US embassy. Maybe he thinks that Trump might invade Thorndon?

Robert, at the start of his latest post, says, "I wonder if RBB has lost his faith in the NZ Education system.." I don't know why he used two full stops instead of a question mark. He then mentions some woman who is up before the Teachers' Disciplinary Tribunal. I think he's trying to point out that Catholic clergy aren't the only paedophiles around.

It is cold and wet in the Nui this morning. I guess that means there is more time for violin practice. I'd like to put in a good effort today to really kick my practice along.

I've decided to have some breakfast this morning, with coffee. That will probably add another activity to my morning.

Ah well, at least I'm at home today and that special room is free most of the time.

That's about it from me.

Stay warm.

Today's post is brought to you by the Mixolydian Mode.

 G A B C D E F G

The Mixolydian fits in with the three most common scale/chord forms found in Western Music.

Major - Minor - Dominant 7th.

1 3 5 7 in the dominant 7th scale consists of a major chord with a minor 7th. The scale I mentioned when I began this post is G7. In any key (with its 7 modes) there is only one dominant 7th chord. This gives the chord a lot of power to predict the coming of the 'I' chord. That sounds a bit religious.

The gig seemed to go well yesterday. I didn't get a lot of feedback, but I enjoyed the play and thought that I played well. As the old Metallica song says, "Nothing Else Matters."

Fulton might disagree with that.

Actually, I'd never heard of Fulton, before reading Rob's post, and really don't give two shits what he thinks, and, with me, there are a lot of shits to choose from.

I'm off to a 90th birthday party today and I need to make a trip to the supermarket. I think I'd better leave you there for today.

Have fun, if you can.

Ciao.