{"id":1541,"date":"2013-08-20T23:46:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T06:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2017-08-30T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T22:15:30","slug":"real-girl-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"Real Girl, Animated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my third stop-motion animation of a full song.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Real Girl (Animated)\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CfSLb1kCNDk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Real Girl uses a custom nine-note scale. It occupies the <a title=\"The Compass Points\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1273\">Southeast<\/a> quadrant of the <a title=\"The Lattice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=342\">lattice<\/a>, the zone of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aeolian_mode\">natural minor<\/a>, with two added notes &#8212; the 7, which allows for a major V chord in the progression, and the 7b5, a <a title=\"Seven\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=581\">blue note<\/a> that is showcased often in the melody.<\/p>\n<p>This scale contains a sharp <a title=\"Consonance and Dissonance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1380\">dissonance<\/a>, between the b6 and the 7. \u00a0I go back and forth between those two notes a lot, with a stop on the 1 in between to help ease the transition.<\/p>\n<p>Watch how the melody and bass chase each other around. In the next few blog posts, I&#8217;ll slow this dance down, and show how the <a title=\"Polarity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1484\">polarity<\/a> flips create tension and resolution. When the melody is below and to the left of the bass, the energy\u00a0is <a title=\"The Compass Points\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1273\">reciprocal<\/a>, tense. Then one or the other moves so that the melody is above and to the right, the energy becomes <a title=\"The Compass Points\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1273\">overtonal<\/a>, and the tension resolves.<\/p>\n<p>Another fun thing to watch is the alternating bass. Roots and fifths are right next to each other on the lattice. The red lens swings like a pendulum throughout the verses.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Next:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1548\">100 Girlfriends<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my third stop-motion animation of a full song. Real Girl uses a custom nine-note scale. It occupies the Southeast quadrant of the lattice, the zone of the natural minor, with two added notes &#8212; the 7, which allows for a major V chord in the progression, and the 7b5, a blue note that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,106,112],"tags":[30,298,85,19,27,220,90,81,88,66,65],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justintonation","category-recordings","category-thelattice","tag-animation","tag-book","tag-dissonance","tag-harmony","tag-lattice","tag-minor","tag-overtonal","tag-real-girl","tag-reciprocal","tag-resolution","tag-tension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}