Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 06, 2010

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    Pacejv  over 14 years ago

    Is that Ricks’ Stone Canyon Band?

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    EarlWash  over 14 years ago

    “Rocks of Ages…”

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    Coyoty Premium Member over 14 years ago

    How archaeologists discovered Rick Astley was sent back in time.

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    wndrwrthg  over 14 years ago

    And this became the drum solo to “In A Gadda Da Vida”.

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    alviebird  over 14 years ago

    Have I been ‘Rickrolled’?

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    Rock and roll is older than I thought.

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    Brockie  over 14 years ago

    Okay, so I took note of it……at least I tuned in

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    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….)

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    DolphinGirl78  over 14 years ago

    Agreed baslim! :)

    Flagged the spammer…

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    celeconecca  over 14 years ago

    Beats me.

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    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”!

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    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.

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    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.]

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    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.

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    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.

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    jsprat  over 14 years ago

    …oh man, you guys know how to take the fun out of comics.

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    lobkiller  over 14 years ago

    this is funnier than the cartoon

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    HowieL  over 14 years ago

    Well, I don’t know much about music theory, but this is obviously, “Duet, Four Beaters and Log”.

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    ♫♪♫Flintones, meet the Flintstones…♪♫♪

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    vexatron1984  over 14 years ago

    I didn’t know logs had such a range of notes in them.

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    lobkiller  over 14 years ago

    there where probably some beans involved

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.)

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    attyush  over 14 years ago

    Q. What’s the integral of 1/Cabin ? A. Log Cabin

    Ya, I know…sorry.

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    poohbear8192  over 14 years ago

    Maybe it’s time to log-off.

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    kfaatz925  over 14 years ago

    heh heh - love it!

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    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….

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    AKHenderson Premium Member over 14 years ago

    DRUUUUUMS!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncRgAnwDkn8

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    ububobu  over 14 years ago

    Hey freeholder1: Wiley’s music isn’t nearly that good.

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    starguy  over 14 years ago

    Remember that “ln” is natural (log)rhythm.

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    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.

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    pjaansa  over 14 years ago

    Famous last words spoken by the jazz trio …

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    TonysSon  over 14 years ago

    Rockmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Cro-magnon

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    runninanreadin  over 14 years ago

    “Setting music back 10,000 years…” (Where’s Spike when you need him?)

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    Phaedrus_  over 14 years ago

    …What it is about this little corner of the internet that draws such a pedantic lot?

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    TheMonsterX  over 14 years ago

    The original stoner rock.

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    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.

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