nonfunctional_harmony unhinged just cause it sounds good tonality denied it's inevitable outcome for the sake of timbre macrocosmic spectralism E7 + 4-3 SUS DM CM7 + M7 or layers of dm + EM = one of those weird middle eastern scales: d - e - f - g# - a - b with open fifth d-a and e-b which i guess you could say is: i - V7/V but no resolution to the V organic rather than progressive D7 + CM analyze_that 050929 ... unhinged sorry for the musical ramblings of late. i'm just trying to nail down the vague notions swimming around in my head. 050929 ... god i dig it. i always think of a major seventh as interchangeable for that thing in middle eastern music when they drop down a half step from the root note. i wish i knew their terminology, but i can't read arabic. 050930 ... not god p.s. "just cause it sounds good" the only rule to follow. 050930 ... unhinged seventh chords really are my favorite. i could sit at the piano for hours messing around with them. that's how i came up with that first progression. i had to take an advanced ear training class in grad_school because i failed that part of my diagnostic test due to a hangover (my ears don't work so great when they are full of alcohol) and one day we were doing seventh chords. quality of the chord + quality of the seventh...blahblahfuckingblah. me and the kid that sat next to each other had a little competition going to see who got more right. i got like 9/10 of the seventh chords right and he looked at me, being the pretend jazzer that he was, and said 'how'd you do that?' with a hint of awe. good old jt; i preferred to think of his arrogance as ignorance. heh 050930 ... unhinged yeah, i don't know much about world music. that's kind of embarassing actually. 050930 ... Mr. ~ Reality abounds in ~. 080109 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I tried to hum the above things, but only got a vague idea... still, it sounds interesting. I'm doing a minor in music along with my creative writing stuff (minor in music--catalyst for bad puns, repeated humming of minor triads etc.) and I've taken first-year harmony and counterpoint so far. The advanced classes must go into nitpicky detail... still, it sounds fascinating to me. (I like mixing whole-tone scales with major-scale jazzy sorts of melodies. I was trying something like that on the piano recently.) 080621 ... unhinged CM/M7 F9 my brother's song. i think i might record it for him for his birthday. 080621 what's it to you? who go blather from