Bach’s Gigue on Microtonal Guitar in Bach’s student Kirnberger’s tuning - Burak Akan YouTube video by Microtonal Guitar - Tolgahan Çoğulu

Kirnberger III >>>>> 12-TET www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVty...

Second season of Beef is pretty good, but it has great touches, especially the personal trainer guy BSing his way through every situation with ChatGPT

My little suggestion today is that if you have to read a T.S. Eliot poem you put, “Girl,” in front of the first line & read the rest in the voice of a drag queen reading someone to filth.

FR 164: Tyler Friedman Makes Music to Levitate To The composer on microtonal systems, minimal techno, ethnomusicology—and San Diego "spock rock."

Futurism Restated put me onto Tyler Friedman and I find his music very relaxing open.substack.com/pub/futurism...

Tuniversity Tuniversity is a songwriting, production and theory learning experience brought to you by Derek Fawcett and Ethan Hein Announcing “Tune Up”: The Inaugural Tuniversity Showcase, Gathering, and Mini-…

First enrollee in our debut Tuniversity songwriting class is on board. Let her be an example to you all. tuniversityny.com

We flu, we happy flu
--Henry V

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

Introducing Tuniversity and my co-founder, veteran songwriter and teacher Derek Fawcett

New on the pod: a conversation with my Tuniversity co-founder Derek Fawcett, a sampling of his songs, and a look at his philosophy of the teaching and learning of musical creativity ethanhein.substack.com/p/introducin...

Also, the guitar solos have the form of a twelve-bar blues, but that's not what makes the melody bluesy

Same goes for the guitar riff. It's C, [something], F, and the [something] is a note between G and A. It's definitely not G-sharp/A-flat, though.

Johnny Cash's "Big River" is a real case study in blues melody. The tune is in F, and most of the chorus melody is on the note F or in the region between G and A. But where in that region? There's a universe of complexity to the way it slides and bends through the pitch zone.

This take is both good and relevant

we owe our evolutionary success to our social behavior; interdependence is our species' primary survival strategy. it's isolation that will get you killed in an apocalyptic scenario, not the other way around.

If you're so smart why do you look like such an incredible tool

This is very good

If you are interested in the stuff that I am interested in, you want to read this book

I thought of a great second to last project for my pop theory kids: write a funk arrangement of "Big River" by Johnny Cash, modeled on James Brown's version of "Your Cheatin' Heart" by Hank Williams. (The final project is to write a song from scratch.)

Anyway, props to my Eastern European ancestors for being so much cooler than my Western European ancestors

By which I mean, I do know why

I don't know why American musical institutions are so obsessed with Western European music when Eastern Europe is right there

I have no context for this except that it's incredibly beautiful

*When

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Tech CEOs seem dead set on rebooting the French Revolution

Suchet

We got our kids to watch it, not sure how it would go over, and they adored it, and have requested multiple viewings since

My sister and I have been repeating one of his line readings from Clue to each other since 1985 ("Picked up the dagger, rrrrrran down the hall, and stabbed the cook")

It is the best

Oh, no, Bob Wills came to stardom in the 30s

I sure am getting a lot of LLM-generated email and blog comment spam, what a wonderful technology