The Write Stuff – The Write Stuff

Check out this puzzle. The solution is surprising, but very logical once you see it.

Anyway….Did I ever tell you about my Drill Sergeant? He was so tough, his suits were made of steel wool. Can you imagine? And I am not sure why the enlisted soldiers were called “Privates.” There was nothing private about it at all.

The Incredible Intelligence of Crows and Other Corvids

Here is my version of “Help” by the Beatles. This one uses a Philicorda.

We don’t always do Beatles songs here. Sometimes we do other “B” music, like the Beach Boys or even Bach. Here are two Bach songs made from sheet music found here.

Here are three more remakes of Beatles songs. The Beatles were really good at creating melodies from nothing more than a major scale. All My Loving is a perfect example. It just goes up and down the major scale, like a roller coaster.

The constantly evolving collection can be found here.

Did you know there is going to be a full moon tomorrow night? For more on that, click here. Speaking of moons, here are two versions of songs from The Dark Side of The Moon, a classic if ever there was one.

Here is a group that does the entire album in one take. (Put on the headphones and turn it up.)

Some songs are just special; I think this is one of them. (You might recognize it from the British version of The Office.) It is titled Handbags and Glad Rags. It can be found with the other songs here.

The last song I posted had an unusually high number of downloads, so I thought I would do another one by Billy Joel. This one is titled She’s Always a Woman.

HBO Max is currently showing a documentary about Billy Joel. In the film, he talks about many of his songs including this one titled “And So It Goes.” Almost every chord in this song is a sus chord, which is short for suspended. For more on what a sus chord actually is, check out this page.

This song is the perfect example of contrary movement in music. When the melody goes up the bass line often goes down, and vice versa. But it doesn’t always happen. Isn’t Billy Joel just about the greatest singer/songwriter ever?

Click here for info on this song.

And then I went to my laptop and finished these songs – some remakes of early Beatles music. They can be found with the other songs here.

Two of these songs were posted one year ago today. However, I think these latest versions are much easier to listen to. They are from the Beatles albums Let it Be, Rubber Soul, and Abbey Road. But you already knew that, I bet.