Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 03, 2014

And so it was…..the roots of “ROCK” music run deep!

Is that Clef , the original song transcriber?

The key signature needs a bit of work1

Follow my lead, I’m going to do some Bob Marley in the middle.

Time signature’s a bit of a mystery too. Is it 9/8 as suggested by the treble melody, or 3/2 as shown in the bass line?

Look at all those sharps: an instrument-playing, band member’s nightmare.

So much for the axiom that you only need three chords to play rock music.

I can name that song in three notes…

As Stan Freberg said on Heartbreak Hotel " that’s good that’s good – that’s close enough for jass "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INt48fr_ZYc

Hey, they not got the rhythm. Not good, no beat guys.

He’s taking notes on the meeting….

“All right, guys, uh, listen. This is a blues riff in “B”, watch me for the changes, and try and keep up, okay?"—Marty“Back To The Future”

I tried that out on the ol’ Yamaha keyboard.. Now I’ve got one MORE dam electronic thing to fix..

Oh, for God’s sake! I’ve had this one up on my fridge for three years. Is Wiley Miller pulling a Gary Trudeau?

Now if he can just “sneak” in a little back beat of Booker T and the MG’s, everything will be cool huh?

Plea of total musical ignorance; I have no idea how to read music…

9/8 time?

carletonkent, enlarge it. In the lower right hand corner you can see the original copyright date, written as ‘10…After that is today’s running date…. Wiley’s been on vacation for the last couple weeks….

I’ve written many songs and I can’t read or write musical notation at all…Folk music, (and by that I mean the larger sense of folk music, which includes, rock, rockabilly, country, blues, bluegrass, any kind of hoe down, folk music itself, and much of jazz,) is a product of the right brain, and doesn’t need it. You strum a guitar (Or tickle a keyboard), to a pretty series of chords, write lyrics that seem to fit the mood of the strumming, have somebody lay a bass line behind it, get a drummer to do some thumpin’, add some guitar solos…Viola! Ya gotcher self a song…..Let somebody else transcribe it….

DavidGBA: Except for a few short passages in school band competition pieces, obviously designed to trip up the players, the only thing in 9/8 I can recall is Blessed Assurance and Beautiful Dreamer. Not your everyday time.

I’d go with 3/2 for the time signature (the bass line is probably more important for defining the time signature); the treble clef line is composed of triplets (not explicitly stated, but it can be assumed). I don’t have a keyboard in front of me, but I just hummed the treble line to myself, and it actually is rather pretty (note that the root chord isn’t reached until the third beat, well sus2 anyway). I can’t read bass clef fantastically, so I would have to play that out to hear what it sounds like. (Don’t play piano, but do sing.) I can tell that if the base line is supposed to be an F clef, then the sharps are shifted a little too high, but I’m not really bothered by it.

Jokes on all of them, there’s no key signature!

@ watmiwori: I think that that’s the rarely used key of L — as in “‘ell if I know what I’m doin’!!!”