Composing Songs
...Which key should I put this song in?
I sing in G Ionian/major comfortably,
Likewise the relative E Aeolian/minor scale.
Plus those guitar chords are easy as sin.
I could choose a scale that’s m...
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Categories:
sevenths, guitar, music, song,
Form: Lyric
Categories:
sevenths, music,
Form: Imagism
Musicianship
...Musicianship
(3 May 2014; For my son Steven, an ACCOMPLISHED guitarist)
Real musicianship can truly drive you nuts—
There really are no “ifs”, “ands”, or “buts”.
Practice, study, memorize, then mo...
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Categories:
sevenths, education, humor, inspiration, music,
Form: Quatrain
You Synesthete! You Poet!
...There is an art to the
workings of the senses.
Sight, touch, sound,
vibrant colors all around.
She sees the color magenta
when she thinks of
her childhood.
She hears thirds and sevenths
wh...
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Categories:
sevenths, art, confusion, life, on
Form: Free verse
Occams Razor
...A finger is pointed from you.
Three of them curling around
pointing write back at you making you frown.
Judgement is harder to do
than you have the ability to pounce on my noun.
My words we...
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Categories:
sevenths, hope, imagination, introspection, social,
Form: Free verse