Ooh, I’ve been flagging the one spammer, and then I spot a second one! Woo woo!!
As a pretty tone deaf person, this cartoon really speaks to me. I was at a monastery once, chanting prayer, and the lady next to me nudged me and pointed to the actual notes. I gave her a helpless look. Afterward, I told her that when I sing, I just try to imitate the folks around me, but I’ve never figured out how to translate notes on a page into actual sounds (other than relatively higher and relatively lower and longer versus shorter). She sighed.
for starters it looks like the treble clef (top line) is in 9/8 (3 groups of 3 eighth notes) and the bass clef (bottom line) is in 3/2 (3 half notes). while in theory those meters could be mixed when half the band needs to be in duple and the other half in triple, it rarely happens before the 20th century and always needs an explanatory note.
also the key signature is a bit odd. 4 sharps would be e major (c# minor) though the sharps in the key signature are incorrectly placed. in the treble clef # should be top line, third space, above top line, fourth line. bass clef # should be fourth line, second space, fourth space, third line.
finally the chord progression (as best as i can tell) makes little sense. d-sharp half diminished 7, b major in first inversion (with appoggiatura), c# minor 7.
but music is experimental. i’m sure someone could create an interesting jazz piece with this as the basis.
[i mean no disrespect, wiley. i actually enjoyed analyzing it.]
@k8giggles, thanks for saving me the trouble. I was going to post almost exactly what you did. Except for the tempo. I was going to grant Wiley a little poetic license, allow the bass as quarter notes and the treble as triples instead of individual eighth notes. Then it comes out as a sort of waltz, but more like a 1940s musical production number than something you would dance to.
@k8giggles, thanks for saving me the trouble. I was going to post almost exactly what you did. Except for the tempo. I was going to grant Wiley a little poetic license, allow the bass as quarter notes and the treble as triples instead of individual eighth notes. Then it comes out as a sort of waltz, but more like a 1940s musical production number than something you would dance to.
It’s not a cave, it’s a cavern and the music is the start of “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” by The Beatles. I can tell that and I don’t even read music.
Pacejv over 14 years ago
Is that Ricks’ Stone Canyon Band?
EarlWash over 14 years ago
“Rocks of Ages…”
Coyoty Premium Member over 14 years ago
How archaeologists discovered Rick Astley was sent back in time.
wndrwrthg over 14 years ago
And this became the drum solo to “In A Gadda Da Vida”.
alviebird over 14 years ago
Have I been ‘Rickrolled’?
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
Rock and roll is older than I thought.
Brockie over 14 years ago
Okay, so I took note of it……at least I tuned in
chaosed2 over 14 years ago
Does anybody recognize it? (not a trick question, I really don’t know if it’s the opening to something….)
DolphinGirl78 over 14 years ago
Agreed baslim! :)
Flagged the spammer…
celeconecca over 14 years ago
Beats me.
Allison Nunn Premium Member over 14 years ago
Two spammers (so far) today….. Moderator please nab them!! @Hector. LOL That is a band joke. Also “how do you get two piccolos in tune?” “Shoot one”!
earodrig Premium Member over 14 years ago
Ooh, I’ve been flagging the one spammer, and then I spot a second one! Woo woo!!
As a pretty tone deaf person, this cartoon really speaks to me. I was at a monastery once, chanting prayer, and the lady next to me nudged me and pointed to the actual notes. I gave her a helpless look. Afterward, I told her that when I sing, I just try to imitate the folks around me, but I’ve never figured out how to translate notes on a page into actual sounds (other than relatively higher and relatively lower and longer versus shorter). She sighed.
k8giggles over 14 years ago
@chaosed. i don’t think it’s a real piece.
for starters it looks like the treble clef (top line) is in 9/8 (3 groups of 3 eighth notes) and the bass clef (bottom line) is in 3/2 (3 half notes). while in theory those meters could be mixed when half the band needs to be in duple and the other half in triple, it rarely happens before the 20th century and always needs an explanatory note.
also the key signature is a bit odd. 4 sharps would be e major (c# minor) though the sharps in the key signature are incorrectly placed. in the treble clef # should be top line, third space, above top line, fourth line. bass clef # should be fourth line, second space, fourth space, third line.
finally the chord progression (as best as i can tell) makes little sense. d-sharp half diminished 7, b major in first inversion (with appoggiatura), c# minor 7.
but music is experimental. i’m sure someone could create an interesting jazz piece with this as the basis.
[i mean no disrespect, wiley. i actually enjoyed analyzing it.]
dtut over 14 years ago
@k8giggles, thanks for saving me the trouble. I was going to post almost exactly what you did. Except for the tempo. I was going to grant Wiley a little poetic license, allow the bass as quarter notes and the treble as triples instead of individual eighth notes. Then it comes out as a sort of waltz, but more like a 1940s musical production number than something you would dance to.
And no, I sure don’t recognize the tune.
dtut over 14 years ago
@k8giggles, thanks for saving me the trouble. I was going to post almost exactly what you did. Except for the tempo. I was going to grant Wiley a little poetic license, allow the bass as quarter notes and the treble as triples instead of individual eighth notes. Then it comes out as a sort of waltz, but more like a 1940s musical production number than something you would dance to.
And no, I sure don’t recognize the tune.
jsprat over 14 years ago
…oh man, you guys know how to take the fun out of comics.
lobkiller over 14 years ago
this is funnier than the cartoon
HowieL over 14 years ago
Well, I don’t know much about music theory, but this is obviously, “Duet, Four Beaters and Log”.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
♫♪♫Flintones, meet the Flintstones…♪♫♪
vexatron1984 over 14 years ago
I didn’t know logs had such a range of notes in them.
lobkiller over 14 years ago
there where probably some beans involved
He-Manatee over 14 years ago
Okay, can you stand one more musician joke?
Q: What’s the difference between an accordian and an onion?
A: Nobody cries when you chop up an accordion.
HappyChappy over 14 years ago
It’s not a cave, it’s a cavern and the music is the start of “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” by The Beatles. I can tell that and I don’t even read music.
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Anyone ever think that getting you musical composition from Wiley is like getting your science from Rush. (I feel free to paraphrase myself today.)
attyush over 14 years ago
Q. What’s the integral of 1/Cabin ? A. Log Cabin
Ya, I know…sorry.
poohbear8192 over 14 years ago
Maybe it’s time to log-off.
kfaatz925 over 14 years ago
heh heh - love it!
treered over 14 years ago
love it! although… how do you get more than one note out of one tube? and maybe someone above is using L ucy in the S ky with D iamonds….
AKHenderson Premium Member over 14 years ago
DRUUUUUMS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncRgAnwDkn8
ububobu over 14 years ago
Hey freeholder1: Wiley’s music isn’t nearly that good.
starguy over 14 years ago
Remember that “ln” is natural (log)rhythm.
3rdbike over 14 years ago
you can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish!
All kinds of ways to tune a log, tho.
pjaansa over 14 years ago
Famous last words spoken by the jazz trio …
TonysSon over 14 years ago
Rockmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Cro-magnon
runninanreadin over 14 years ago
“Setting music back 10,000 years…” (Where’s Spike when you need him?)
Phaedrus_ over 14 years ago
…What it is about this little corner of the internet that draws such a pedantic lot?
TheMonsterX over 14 years ago
The original stoner rock.
jhouck99 over 14 years ago
In addition to the aforementioned problems, the dots on the bass clef are bracketing the D line instead of the F line.