#modality in music

[guitarguitarworld]

Modal Chords For Guitar:

CLICK SUBSCRIBE! Please watch video above for detailed info: Hi Guys, Today, a quick look at modal chords. The chords are from the backing track [below in this page] and they are “Transposed” with C as the root note. These are exploited in the 12 bar form of a fusion blues. Here are the chords for the chart: To begin with, we will take the first chord for the basic Ionian/Major sound. Here…

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9.16.24 / 9.17.24 - september supermoon

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

无挂碍 - 音速行星 Unencumbered - Sonic Planet

制作人: 泰然 Producer: Tai Ran

三娃嘞 Sanwa le

你杳无音信 I've never heard from you

一走就十载 You've been gone for ten years

你喜欢的姑娘 The girl you like

嫁了个好人 Married a good man

去年生了双胞胎 She gave birth to twins last year

你养的小黑狗 The little black puppy you raised

变成了老黑狗 Turned into an old black dog

就快要爬不起来 She's about to die

逢人都有常问 People always ask

你何时归来 When are you coming back

三娃嘞 Sanwa Le

你杳无音信 I've never heard from you

一走就二十载 You've been gone for 20 years

你种的树苗苗 The saplings you planted

长成了大树 Have grown into big trees

年年结出果子来 Every year they bear fruits

对面的山坡坡 On the other side of the mountain

油菜花漫山遍野 Rapeseed blossoms are everywhere

金灿灿的开 Blooming with gold

你二哥他在问 Your second brother is asking

你何时归来 When will you come back?

三娃嘞 Sanwa le

你杳无音信 I haven't heard a word from you

一走就三十载 You've been gone for 30 years

你二哥两爷子战死沙场 Your second brother and your dad died in battle

就地掩埋没有回来 They were buried on the spot and never came back

娘亲她泪洗面眼浑浊 Mom's eyes are clouded with tears

颤颤巍巍双鬓都斑白 She walks shakily and her hair is gray

她常年独坐村头 She sits alone in the village entrance all year round

你何时归来 When will you come back?

三娃嘞 Sanwa Le

你杳无音信 I haven't heard a word from you

转眼就四十载 It's been 40 years

娘走那天残阳似火 The sun was burning on the day mom passed away

天边有雁群展翅来 Wild geese spreading their wings in the sky

她说都回来接她了 She said they all came back for her

唯独其中寻你不在 Only you're not here

心有遗憾 She felt sorry for you

你何时归来 When will you come back?

三娃嘞 Sanwa Le

你杳无音信 I haven't heard a word from you

一走就五十载 You've been gone for 50 years

我弓腰驼背坡坡坎坎 I've been hunching over and walking uphill

力不从心走不快 I can't walk as fast as I'd like

想起带你下河抓鱼 I think of taking you to the river to catch fish

草鞋冲走笑出声来 We were laughing as our straw sandals washed away

我心头默默在念 I've been thinking of you

你何时归来 When will you come back?

何时归来 When will you come back?

何时归来 When will you come back?

何时归来 When will you come back?

何时归来 When will you come back?

何时归来 When will you come back?

何时归来 When will you come back?

何时归来 When will you come back?

何时归来 When will you come back?

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Pros: I can now sing (badly) every word of a total of twenty two Gilbert and Sullivan songs.

Cons: no one cares.

[sibyl-of-space]

pretentiously named as this is in fact the fourth fugue I've written :^)

fugue no. 1

fugue no. 2 (variation 4)

fugue no. 3

[deeplyshalllow]

It is actually Scorpio JD discrimination that all three people who have officially played JD this year are Geminis.

[swtechspecs]

Kloo Horn

Source: The Official Star Wars Fact File #38 (De Agostini, 2002)

[milesjohn]

A legally distinct mimicry of Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes hit song "Cantina Band"

[soop-musical-fool]

Ok I said I would make a pin full of music so here it is

First off, I mentioned KNOWER. It's a long project that started a really long time ago, but their best stuff is probably coming out like right now. As in, they are just about to release a new album, KNOWER FOREVER. The singles on it are incredible, like I'm The President just comes right out the gate with the fattest walkdown I've ever heard from a horn section. The B section makes it feel like I'm enjoying a song like I would a multiple-course meal. Then Crash The Car just transfixes you. Yes, yes, you should listen to those, but don't neglect the fire they put out in 2017 because you owe it to yourself to watch the live sesh of Overtime:

Oh god this post is gonna make viewing my blog super annoying isn't it

Anyway the next thing I gotta mention is Vulfpeck. These guys are famous for scamming Spotify, basically. They released an album full of 30-second tracks of pure silence, just absolutely nothing, titled Sleepify. They got online and said "Yo guys, help us raise money for a free concert by listening to this on loop while you sleep." What they were actually doing was exposing a loophole in the way Spotify calculated royalties, and before they could pull the album (citing "content policy violations," of course), Vulfpeck had already bagged around $20,000, so they put on the completely admission-free Sleepify Tour, which was incredibly fucking based of them.

Vulf went on to become several spin-off projects, all entirely independently released and full of some of the stankiest funk fusion that I cannot stop listening to.

My favorite of these projects, The Fearless Flyers, is headed by Cory Wong, with a guitar idol of mine for 5+ years Mark Lettieri and of course the government subsidized active bass of Joe Dart, but the keystone of the group is no doubt Nate Smith on drums. Dude makes a three-piece set onstage sound like a full kit.

Like just look at what they can do with the added power of sax:

And yeah, I could just talk about those guys, but let's get weirder.

I'm talking modal. The kind of stuff that makes my choir-trained mother cringe inward at the dissonance. Let's talk about the crunchiest, most feral fucking harmonies and keyboard solos that make you question what you thought you knew about chord progressions and key centers.

Obviously anyone super into this stuff will have already heard of Jacob Collier, so I won't show him. But THIS:

I listened to this the first time and it was just.. too much. I put it in its own specific playlist titled "very complex shit" immediately. When I went back to it, enough time had passed and I had learned enough that after way too many listens I can actually follow along with this insanity. This track blew my fucking mind, dude. I have never heard a chorus use so many of the 12 chromatic notes and still sound heavenly. The groove changes add so much texture. The flute solo goes off way too hard. The slower final section is just disgusting syncopation when the drums come back in. Everything about it is incredible, and this album came out in 2007. I am staring back at years of my life I spent not listening to this and ruminating my lack of music theory knowledge. And when I wanted to see if some kind transcribing jazz grad student like June Lee had uploaded anything of System, I found a 2020 reboot with 24 musicians playing System for over twice its original runtime, and guess who did the showstopping final solo??

JACOB FUCKING COLLIER.

Look him up if you don't know. The other musicians I obsess over inspire me. This guy makes me want to quit.

[scalarknight]

terrible music mistake i used to do was think that music was actually modal or scalar (haha like scalarknight) instead of thinking in terms of degrees and chord movements and intervals. (or modal moments) i would just pick random modes without even knowing how to tonicize them and try to compose in them like they were major or minor. (which are modes but are so much more stable than any of the other 5) how did i even compose anything then.

[galliaestomnis]

It's the knowledge of self understanding of the things around me That becomes the wisdom that I need Living this life to the best of my ability Channelling energy to my thoughts into your symmetry

Nujabes - Feather (Modal soul - 2005)

[ethan---ng]

Nujabes Interview | Sound & Recording Magazine (2003)

[music-crush]

Peter Stampfel

Happy birthday Peter Stampfel, co-founder of The Holy Modal Rounders!

[popbotmusic]

music i am making currently. not as i'm typing this but like its a project i worked on today. ykwim.

[soundgrammar]

Listen to: I'm Not Trying to Wake Up by 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band