May the 4th be with you
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This never, ever, gets old:
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To show off my familiarity what sci-fi pop culture and general nerditude, I shall share with you that on this Star Wars Day I have discovered that I can do the “live long and prosper” hand sign more easily with my left hand than my right. I further theorize that this may have something to do with string instrument training, that if one plays a string instrument, one would likely find it easier to do the Vulcan salute more easily with the fretboard hand than the other hand.
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@Doctor-Phibes thank you.
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@George-K Desmond wrote the sax melody
The time signature was Brubeck’s idea, which the drummer was good with.
But why fucking e flat minor….?
And apropos that key, Bach’s fugue number 8, which ostensibly should be in e flat minor, is actually a fugue for D minor which Bach added six sharps making it D sharp minor which is enharmonically equivalent to e flat minor.
But the flat keys are better for wind instruments like clarinet or sax
Also see this
https://interlude.hk/feel-key-e-flat-minor/
“Dark and somber, rarely used.”
Just some more useless info for the day
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@bachophile said in May the 4th be with you:
@George-K Desmond wrote the sax melody
Yeah, that's what it says in the upper right-hand corner, LOL.
The time signature was Brubeck’s idea, which the drummer was good with.
Really?
Wow...
Following a repeated request to Brubeck from the Quartet's drummer Joe Morello for a new piece to showcase his facility with 5/4 time, Desmond unwittingly "lucked out... like keno" when Brubeck delegated his saxophonist to contribute a composition in that meter to the Time Out album, using Morello's rhythm. Desmond delivered two melodies, which Brubeck arranged in ternary form.
Recording "Take Five" proved so arduous for the Quartet that, after 40 minutes and more than 20 failed attempts, producer Teo Macero suspended the first effort during the Time Out recording session of June 25, 1959 because one or another of the members kept losing the beat. They finally cut the single and the album track at the next session on July 1.
Link to videoUpon his death from lung cancer in 1977, Desmond left the performance royalties for his compositions, including "Take Five", to the American Red Cross, which has since received payments averaging well over $100,000 a year.
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@bachophile said in May the 4th be with you:
@George-K Desmond wrote the sax melody
The time signature was Brubeck’s idea, which the drummer was good with.
But why fucking e flat minor….?
Because the alto sax is in E flat.
Any alto player will tell you of the misery of playing with guitarists who love to play in E (C# major for the alto sax)
