{"id":905,"date":"2013-02-17T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T23:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=905"},"modified":"2017-08-25T07:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:24:16","slug":"some-more-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"Extending the lattice"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve analyzed my songs on the lattice<\/a>, and written new music<\/a> using it as a tool, I have found that I have a certain palette of notes in my mind, a territory of the lattice that I can hear and think with. The notes in this portion are distinct individuals for me. Each one has its own personality, a distinct mix of attraction, repulsion, beauty and function. I’ve described and given examples<\/a> of many of them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I wrote Flying Dream<\/a> in 1981, I was consciously trying to write a song that used all twelve notes of the chromatic scale<\/a>. The first part of making the Flying Dream animation<\/a>\u00a0was to reverse-engineer<\/a> my own song, figuring out with my new tool (the lattice) what I had been instinctively hearing at the time.<\/p>\n

\"220px-Crayola-64\"<\/a>It turned out that I had been hearing about 18 notes in the song, including blue notes, and notes up in the northern part of the lattice<\/a>. That made sense. I remember, as a kid, being disappointed to find out that there were only 12 total notes in music to work with. It seemed to limit the possibilities, like being stuck with the 8-color Crayola box.<\/p>\n

The music I love to listen to, and make, has the big 64-color box with built-in sharpener. What’s up with Mick Jagger’s “Oooooh,” at the beginning of Gimme Shelter<\/a>, <\/em>or that guitar lick in Dizzy Miss Lizzy<\/a>?<\/em>\u00a0These notes can’t be found on the piano, unless you have a pitch bend wheel. Check out this clip<\/a> of Ray Charles bending notes in 2000 — now there’s a use of technology! The mystery of those notes, and others like them, has stuck with me, and now I feel like I’m getting to know them as friends.<\/p>\n

Next:\u00a0Another Major Second: The 10\/9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve analyzed my songs on the lattice, and written new music using it as a tool, I have found that I have a certain palette of notes in my mind, a territory of the lattice that I can hear and think with. The notes in this portion are distinct individuals for me. Each one…<\/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":[112,126],"tags":[298,28,27,31,11,71],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thelattice","category-the-notes","tag-book","tag-flying-dream","tag-lattice","tag-mathieu","tag-notes","tag-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}