From the monthly archives:
As most of my friends know, at weddings, I love to dance. Last night, after Gareth and Jenny’s wedding, the music started and after G&J danced, everyone went out on the floor to join in. Well, for one number, then all of G’s buddies (design and filmmakers from UCLA), went the opposite side of the [...]
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I mentioned that we are in Auburn, CA for Gareth and Jenny’s wedding. Who is Gareth you ask? Gareth Smith is one of the founders of Shadowplay Studio and an old classmate of Daniel. Of course you remember the Possum Death Spree series with music by yours truly:
Possum Death Spree I
Possum Death Spree II
[Possum Death [...]
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Last night, sitting around on the porch shooting the breeze with Gareth’s dad (Gareth and Jenny are getting married today), he spoke of his love for the blues scene in London in the late 60s. I told him that I had just taught the 12-bar blues form to my students this week. He continued to [...]
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Today we looked at the various components of a [popular] song, as espoused by Wikipedia. We picked our way through the relevant appellations and critiqued the language, spelling, and content. They encouraged me to go in and change it right now, but I declined.
I gave them an assignment to analyze a popular song using one [...]
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Elvis is so NAUGHTY here. I love the pelvic thrusts, and the girls’ squeals of delight. The instrumentation is an interesting half electric/half acoustic trio: drums, upright bass, and a hollow-bodied archtop [thanks PK] electric guitar with F-holes. Elvis is solo. HE was a no-effects music video all by himself, without any direction. (”Music video” [...]
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In 3rd grade, I accompanied some older kids from church on an inner tube adventure up in the Sandia mountains outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. I was on a big inner tube with three high schoolers, we pushed ourselves down the snowy slope and away we went. Then, my right leg got caught under the [...]
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For the first week of my music theory course, we have focused on songs with falling bass lines.
Today, we started with the so-called air on a G string by J.S. Bach. As an amusement, I quizzed what a G string was in context of a strip club, and Marcos correctly answered that it referred to [...]
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