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Let me know the name of the song you played tonight on your piano or keyboard. Happy New Year!!

Shelves are fully stocked at Sam's Club for major items. Joshua loaded four 52-lb. bags of cat litter on the cart for me and later walked me to my vehicle where he placed them in the trunk. It was his second day on the job as a new hire. Dominica walked me from the pet food isle back to the bakery for Tiramisu. Pam made my checkout experience one of best ever because of our shared interest in chicken salad sandwiches on croissants from the deli dept. Pam has worked at this Sam's Club for 13 years. Dominica started a year ago. Great customer service by Pam, Joshua, and Dominica (hope I spelled this name right) and another associate on Thursday, December 30, 2021. Pam and I both think good things are headed our way and for the rest of the world in 2022. What do you think?

Let's take an inventory of our time spent learning new songs over these past few months. Practice time, sight reading, scales, chord studies and ear training all in preparation for tomorrow night. Today we check our closet for that perfect outfit. Hair, nails and makeup need our attention. Put a star on the practice room door. We are going to SHINE as we play and record one song before celebrating New Year's Eve. How do you plan to celebrate?  

“Baby Face,” written by Harry Akst and Benny Davis was first published in 1926 by Warner Bros. and Davis Benny Music. Dating back decades before the pop era, it went on to have a big part to play in the career of Little Richard, among others. Then it became a US chart entry on September 29, 1962, for the one and only Bobby Darin. Who knew?

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The triad can be defined as a chord made up of three tones (notes) called chord factors. They make up the diatonic scale. A D-major triad (aka chord) is made up of the notes D, F-sharp, and A.  Add a major third above the major triad i.e., the root chord. The new note (the letter C) is the major seventh of the chord. It lies at the interval of a major seventh above the root.

What is an interval in music?

What is an Interval in Music? An interval in music is defined as a distance in pitch between any two notes. The larger the interval between two notes, then the greater the difference in pitch between the notes. And vice versa, the smaller the interval between two notes then the smaller the pitch between the notes. SOURCE: Wikipedia

A major 7th chord starts with the first five notes of the root chord. Thus: D, F#, A plus C. Use a chord guide for all other major and minor 7th chords. Baby Face is arranged in C Major with all major 7th chords and one A minor note near the end. This version contains no base clef. It's up to the player to fill in the base chords. It was a good lesson for us today about major and minor chords. It answers the question for some about which chords sound best for a particular song. Sometimes chords don't sound write in some arrangements; however, it may be due to our lack of training. Your choice.

Take a deep breath. Resort to earlier songs with sheet music or not. Do your best. Do not get tangled up in blue. Bob Dylan.

Standard tuning, capo 2nd fret (sounding key A major). Since Larry Campbell joined the band in 1997, Tangled has been played as an acoustic song, with Larry playing the intro below. Larry's guitar is played with a capo on the 2nd fret, Bob's guitar is uncapoed. The chords are more or less those of the Blood on the Tracks version above.

Just because a song happens to be played in the key of Eb major, doesn't mean that it has to be tabbed in that key, when it is actually played in "C major" with a capo on the third fret.

[one verse guitar intro]

Adrien Brody lost 30 lbs. during the making of The Pianist, a Roman Polanski film about the life of composer Frederic Chopin. Working long hours at anything may result in weight loss, not just learning to play classical music. Eat something!

When you look closely at the three different forms for A Minor, one of them stands out. It's the melodic scale exercise. Looks a lot like the sheet music for the Waltz in A Minor by Frederic Chopin. Source: The FJH Classic Scale Book, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Introduction by Edwin McLean: "Why Practice Scales"?