Tagged for a meme! Oh, thankthankyouthankyou, Connie K. I am so tired from this job I’m doing for Teddy J.
So, Connie K’s meme:
I. You have to look up page 123 in the nearest book around you.
II. Look for the fifth sentence.
III. Then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page 123.
IV. And then tag five people, just like you were tagged. (Neh. I believe in self-tagging. Or comment tagging for those without blogs.)
“For example, if you want to indicate a first inversion of a C major chord (normally C E G, but E C G in the first inversion) you’d write this: C/E. This tells the musician to play a C major chord, but to put a E in the bass — which just happens to be the first inversion of the chord.”
I know it hasn’t been three sentences yet, but, two quick things:
- I know it should be “an E in the bass.”
- The delight with which the author wrote that sentence makes me laugh. “…Which just HAPPENS to be the first! inversion! of the CHORD!” (Author claps happily.)
“If you wanted to indicate a second inversion (G C E), you’d write this: C/G.”
If this made no sense to you, don’t worry, this made no sense to me. I stopped back on page seven of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Theory when I was learning about staffs and clefs. I told you I was serious about figuring out why I like some songs. So far I’ve figured out all the songs I like have staffs and clefs.
9 responses to “MemeMeme”
That post made my head hurt. You’re really serious about this music thing huh? The answer may be, there is no answer. Have you prepared for that?
yeah. equally clueless.
Oh. My. God.
“‘Hand me a Kleenex’ doesn’t necessarily mean Kleenex brand. Brand names get a good reputation as a result of two things: consistent quality and marketing. One without the other doesn’t equate to staying power or success in the marketplace.”(From Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, a gift which I never opened until today. The first five sentences are a strange riff on genericized brand names that has nothing to do with the rest of the paragraph or chapter.)
Hey, I did that Meme yesterday (the first one). Though my book was, um, entertaining, and not totally incomprehensible. (I thought of you today when my neurosurgeon told me I didn’t have MS unless it was invisible, it immediately made me think of your Elmer Fudd lesion. I told him I couldn’t have MS, I didn’t suddenly want to listen to and play music, and he looked at me all strange. As it turns out, your blog is not a neurology textbook. Weird, right?)
Candy / Becs /Friend #3 – Well, I didn’t understand it either. The answer must be hidden in the previous 122 pages. TasterSpoon – Perhaps this meme should specify it be a work of fiction.Katie – Well, that clinches it. I should have searched for some non-fiction. And someday, the neuro textbooks will catch up with me.
Fine. Sigh.”‘…The younger ones out before the elder are married!-Your sisters must be very young?”Yes, my youngest is not sixteen. Perhaps she is full young to e much in company. But really, Ma’am, I think it would be very hard upon younger sisters, that the should not have their share of society and amusement because the elder may not have the means or inclination to marry early.’…”Too bad I didn’t have porn sitting beside me on the desk…
“…The differences may sound esoteric, but they’re utterly divergent approaches, with completely different effects. A Keynesian would want temporary tax cuts aimed at the middle and the bottom, while a supply-sider would prefer permanent tax cuts aimed mostly at the top. Bush’s tax cut was in the supply-side mold.”Yeah. My reading taste is that bad, but it’s nice to have some ammo at hand when you’re dealing with a loquacious, post-graduate degreed Archie Bunker. At least for now…
Hot Mom – Pride and Prejudice. Very nice.F#3 – Bleeeaaaah. GOD we are boring.