sadeyedartist and I were discussing this in the car recently. One of our pet peeves is when the lyrics of modern songs do not match the music, that is, when the lyrical rhythm does not fit the musical rhythm or when lyrics are devoid of any rhythm of their own.

Traditionally, poetry has had rhythm. No, it's not always been iambic or trochaic or some other ( Read more... )

This is a rare entry of the more personal variety.

I began teaching myself how to play guitar again today.

As I understand it -- and I may be confused on elements of it -- back when sadeyedartist was in high school, her father gave or let borrow a 12-string guitar to a friend of hers. This friend and her made contact maybe a year ago through Facebook, and he ( Read more... )

I have been trying to give Pandora a chance recently. dogs_n_rodents first mentioned it a while ago, and one of my coworkers has been using it.

I questioned dogs_n_rodents as to how it might be better than other Internet radio sites that try to figure out one's tastes, such as LaunchCast (from Yahoo!) that I have used a lot in the past. She informed me about the Music Genome ( Read more... )

I hate it when churches don't use punctuation in their overhead projection of songs!

And while I'm yelling...

Why can't we use hymnals anywhere anymore‽ What's wrong with being educated enough to read music‽ What's wrong with giving us the notes so people can actually sing in harmony‽

The end.

( Nothing to see here; move along. )

Poll Solutions to Songs Stuck in Your HeadThat's really about it. I was just curious about how different people deal with this phenomenon. I think I have observed that some people feel the need to listen to the song in their head to get it out of their head. (I am like that.) Others need to listen to another song to get the song out of their head.

I need to catch up ( Read more... )

I wonder what it is about nature sounds -- be it ocean waves, crickets, birds, rain, wind, etc. -- that seems to be a part of "relaxing" music nowadays. I have a few such CDs. One is piano with rain and light thunder and birds, the other is Beethoven with song birds. It is always nature stuff, never man-made sounds (apart from the music). Of course ( Read more... )

So, as my last voice post stated, I went shopping last night at the Towson Mall, mostly for my fiancée. I had such a wonderful time.

(I can talk rather freely on this public entry, because she does not have Internet access currently....)

( On Newer Relationships and the Difficulty of Shopping )

I have thoroughly lost my voice ( Read more... )