Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
10 Sep 2016 2 Comments
in Video of the Week Tags: beethoven, fur elise, samuraiguitarist
31 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: the millennial whoop
If you tend to think all top 40 music sounds the same, there are reasons for that. And one of the biggest is what product manager and musician Patrick Metzger recently dubbed “the Millennial Whoop”, a repeated alternating series of the 5th and 3rd notes in a major scale. It’s currently all over the radio and it probably won’t be going away any time soon.
Songwriters have begun incorporating tropes like this and the ubiquitous “hey!” into songs because they know they are already familiar to the listener from other hit songs, and that bit of familiarity helps to make said listener comfortable with the new song. It’s like a musical referral of sorts–the stranger who’s introduced to you by a friend.
10 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: the turtles
01 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: dust in the wind, sungha jung
Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind”, arranged and played by Sungha Jung.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2016/05/12/video-of-the-week-carrying-you-from-castle-in-the-sky/
24 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: Led Zeppelin, spirit, stairway to heaven, taurus
An excellent wider-picture exposition of what is at issue in the recently concluded lawsuit involving Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” and Spirit’s “Taurus”.
Certain snarky newsfeed sites have portrayed the ruling in favor of Led Zeppelin as a good thing, and the lawsuit by the estate of Randy California as a bit of a classless money grab. We encourage you to take in the contents of TJR’s exceptionally well-done YouTube video before making up your mind.
Every Moment Has A Song 