Great expansion on IFS into the great unknown (to western minds) of spirit posession, where things AREN'T just actually benevolent underneath it all
pca.st/episode/7290...
fearlessness <> play <> charisma
the aesthetics of something mattering sometimes more than the function - a cute camera makes me want to use it more, an item of clothing that's more expensive but that I love will have me wearing it more with more joy
do you see anything before you fall asleep?
(inspired by tommy's shapes, year 1 spring semester)
how they grew up - what was the culture, what did they eat, how did they hang out with their friends, what school was like for them
what they're curious about right now and what the origins of that curiosity is all the way down (is it rooted in something deep and primordial/ broader consistent pattern throughout life)
wordlessly connecting with people
taste & how to cultivate it
IV chord sometimes sounds like iv chord because in the triad form there's only 1 note difference!
sound design
ran across the book "Improvise for Real" which seems exactly fitted to what I'm trying to do / my preferred philosophy for how to think about music
also started comping I / IV / V / vi chords while improving, which is massively helping me pick up on them during ear training
interesting looking at the time stamps here - seems like i transitioned into full time fundamentals less than 2 weeks ago, felt like longer! posted about it oct 11, so must've started 1 or 2 days before that
but that's been going well so far - doing a bunch of sight reading which has been fun!
discovered the C7 flat 9 chord - what a lovely sound, especially in the context of Autumn in New York (where i found it)
another thing i learnt today is that the minor 6th is actually *also* the 2nd inversion of a dominant 9th chord, so C minor 6th in the context of a II (Cm7)-> V (F7)-> I (Bb maj7) is actually the 2nd inversion of a F7(9) chord (that doesn't have the F / root)
woops the above is wrong because a minor 6th is not a minor triad + the 6th of that minor, but a minor triad + the *major* 6th
so minor 6th is the 1st inversion of the 6th's minor flat 5 / half diminished
in the case of e minor 6th, it is 1st inversion of c# half diminished
sampling
sample chopping
mixing
(chord) progression
texture
sound choice
timbre
chords
harmony
movement
phrasing
space
collecting music making concepts
started to listen to the minor version of the I IV V VI (the I III VI VII) yesterday and picking up a bit of that (rather than pure confusion before)
lol i definitely wasn't really getting that much of a hang of it then, i think i'm slowly just beginning to now, especially with the more obvious ones w/o inversion
also getting bit better / quicker at recognising scale tones, but struggling with minor key a bit bc the tonal center is shifted
wait the minor scale was the natural minor this whole time??? the harmonic minor that i grew up playing the scales to and being tested on was a lie???????
ah and likewise 1st inversion of a major 7th is a minor 6th
c major 7th 1st inversion is e minor 6th
minor 7th 1st inversion is the same as the 3rd degree's major 6th chord!
e.g c minor 7th has the same notes as eb major 6
one of those electric (motor)bikes: super73.com/products/sup...
revamp my wardrobe towards this: www.are.na/vincent-li/s...
a cute house in east bay
things i would buy if i had (a lot more) money
hooktheory is great because i can do both transcription of melody + figure out chord changes, so it's a 2 in 1 for each tune
