okay i need to put this in the world before i crumble into bed today after our ptm my momtook me to the placeshe learnt abacus from (she'sgoing to be teaching so she was thereto observe the teachers i thinkn she only knows teh first couple levels) and i was absolutely exhausted and with a bad headache (i hate air conditioners). it's a little small, teh reception area but they'vewon so many prizes and been to many different states its amazing honestly. as soon as i waslked in there my brain stopped. in a good way. my dad always says that temples make him forget everything thats going on in his mind it's a comfort place for him he isn't even religious STILL. thats how i felt when i was in the little school. peace. tranquil. loved. the teacher who was at teh reception had a very very kind face, hesmiled at one of the kids and i felt.safe. those kids are going to grow up smart and loved. im in awe of that place. i looked at teh kids and the teacher and he talked to me a little and i forgot everything that i was thinking before. it was beautiful.
what if all my posts were actually data saved on pearls and all my reblogs were just me trading pearls and all my likes were me admiring your pearl and all my replies are just me commenting on your pearl
Idk much about music so idk how to word this but whats your favorite musical feature or aspect of working in music? Or a fun fact about music?
We don't give jazz scales enough credit. they make everything easier, but for some reason everyones so scared of them like "ooOOoOoo jAzz!! its sOphiSTACTED and COMPLEX whats even goin ON its so maSTERful and DIFFICULt-" no its not. how did it even come to that.
Like for real. the creation of jazz was on basically the exact opposite ideal. but i digress on that point because THE BEAUTY of Jazz Scales(TM) that I think deserves more appreciation is that As SOON as you know what scale works for a song. You can Bullshit Anything and people will compliment you and think you are more musically talented than you may actual perceive yourself as. OBSERVE
I will teach you to sound like you've done nothing but master the piano for sixteen years straight using the same trick that I used to manipulate and lie to people: Jazzy Megalovania
Step 1: Left Hand
or your right hand! Fuck it! I'm not the boss of you and you are guaranteed to sound fucking superb either way because that's just how jazz work alright. it's literally impossible to sound bad ok? ok. so yeah just play these notes in the number order shown here.
no note name knowing required, just look at the shapes on your piano and compare and contrast, you'll figure it out. But if you really want to know these notes are called D, C, B, and B flat.
So basically what you wanna do is play those notes repeating, constantly, in a steady beat. or a swing beat. or just something to keep yourself anchored to a tempo and time, capiche? down the line you can even play them as octaves or is a different order oOOoOooo yeah i know, real game changing stuff, anyhow
STEP 2: THE BULLSHIT
SEE THESE NOTES DOWN HERE?
JUST. FUCK EM UP. Do whatever. Doesn't even matter if you don't know the first thing about rhythm. play them one at a time, play them all at the same time. it will sound good, no matter what. Cause it's a jazz scale--probably. I don't actually know the name of this scale, or even if it is an actual jazz scale. It's probably a D...Minor...somethingsomething. listen just google bing fire duck go what a jazz scale is ok and the same formula works ok bECAUSE
WHO KNOWS! and who even cares, all i know, and all you need to know, is that the basic principal of a jazz scale is that you just do whatever the hell you want and it sounds great. thats the official definition written by BJ franklin himself when he invented plates.
also If you want this to sound like megalovania, just start by going from the right-most note to the left most (That's C, A, A flat, G, F, then D for anyone who's curious)
so then BOOM. combine those two steps and you don't even need to know how to play megalovania and it'll just sound like you've been analyzing it's composition from the day you could count to 2.5. Congrats. you're now a poet. an artist. submit jazz as your college or job application. do you not feel the aura of class and prodigal power rush through you? you can now say you are better than people because once you play this on the piano, who the fucks gonna replicate that? who's gonna hear shit like this and think "i can one-up that with a round of jingle bells" NO ONE. fuck everyone but you, and your jazz. you are the best now.
you cannot spell sophistication without siphoning your mediocrity into the algorithm of pre-researched jazz arrangements. or, most of the letters anyway.
notice how I have no rhythm and even played off of the designated scale a few times--such is the power o jazz scales. so do not feel intimidated cause there's a 600% chance you will sound even better than a half-asleep emotionally drained tumblr user than i am.
So. I just finished The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer and OH MY GOD HTHSI BOOK WASS SCH AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOATSRE BUT TEH ENDING WAS SO CHEF"S KISS OH MY GOD IM SOKHLGKJ>L<GKHBJ<MB<M HUMANITY IS SO FUCKING BEAUTFIUL I LOVE LIFE HKJVMHGKHVB I WANT TO UGH THERES SM I WNAT EVERYTHING IS WORTH LIEVING FOR
Guys is it normal to be scared shitless to post my art online but wanting to have artist friends so we can draw each other's ocs and ramble about them at the same time????