That hat and the tritone.

 

Is Peter really planning to wear that hat in Wellington? I thought that I could help by offering some other choices.

There you go. Plenty to choose from.

And here is something that Robert might like.

Note the Catholic one.

The Catholic god created Original Sin to punish people and then he needed his 'son' to die on a cross to save everyone. Those Catholics are weird!

Okay, let's move on to the tritone.

The Prowse Bros are getting together for a jam on Saturday. I briefly saw an email where Chris and Robert are both very excited about a piece of music Chris wrote that contains tritones. The devils! Robert would like to play it on his cello. In my brief look I saw that the first two notes in the melody are C and F# (actually the order is F# to C). This is a tritone because it contains three tones... C  D  E  F#. The distance between each of these notes is called a tone. A tone is like going from C, skipping C# and going to D (I put that explanation in for Peter). 

However, there is one little problem - the piece is in C minor. That means that the notes would be C  D  Ed  F#. One could argue that is not really the foundation for a tritone and that the interval might be better called Cm#4 or Cm#11. Ah well, who really cares? Those boys will probably dispute this. They really need to brush up on their music theory.

My Atomic Habits are going well. I'm working on habits for violin, double bass and Italian language. Tomorrow I will also have to add the trumpet because ANZAC Day is approaching. Hey, but I only usually practise the trumpet in April, so I guess it doesn't really count as a regular habit.

I guess that if those two bros got into Atomic Habits, they'd be practising tritones.

If they're after a real range of 'out' sounds, there are a lot of other things they should be practising regularly. I have 12 that I practise (but these also include major, minor and dominant 7th. scales and their arpeggios (3 things that are not really 'out there')). They include things like a Coltrane diminished lick, the augmented scale, using the ascending form of the melodic minor up a fifth from the root to play over a dominant 7th. chord and using the same melodic minor up a minor third to play over a m7b5 chord - notice that this gives you a #2. 

Ah well, each to his own.

I wonder what Peter practised on the bagpipes?

A young lady I know, a good violinist, is about to get lessons on Irish fiddle playing. I refrained from saying, "All you have to do is play the tune over and over again." Well, I could have saved her money.

What else can I tell you?

I was up at 5am again this morning. Well, it does give me a lot of time to post on my blog - Richard's Bass Bag.* Peter really needs a tag line for his blog.

Here are some suggestions:

1) The Curmudgeon*

* Gardens and American politics here.

2) The Curmudgeon*

* I do jokes, if you can call them that.

3) The Curmudgeon*

* Fighting at tennis and playing golf on my own.

4) The Curmudgeon*

* A carless Wellington guy in a silly hat who can be grumpy.

That last one is for his possible future.

Well, I guess I'll leave it there for this morning.

Ciao tutti.

* the original bass bagging site