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Bit by bit, nice and slowly. Even if it is too difficult at the moment, after a bit of practise it won't be.

Cheers mate, much appreciated!

I know the interviews you're talking about, so you're absolutely right about his influences not being solely contemporary, and of course he received instruction from Karl Kohn and was familiar with Walter Piston's "Harmony" textbook (even if he found it dry and boring), so he seems to have had some background in traditional harmony, which does occasionally show. But I think I would question exactly how much these older influences manifest in his harmonic language, structurally, at least. Early on he wrote a letter to Varese excitedly purporting to have developed a serial technique he called an "inversion square", and we can hear in the Mt. St. Mary's Q&A, he seems to have been more actively engaged in more contemporary methods, so in tunes like Rollo, I think whilst we can hear some older influences in the contrapuntal aesthetics and parallel 4ths, I might personally consider some of these features to be a little more surface level, and secondary to some of the more contemporary structures he seemed to employ in piece like this.

@@SamuelRHoward I also think Chopin might make sense too with respect to his use of polyrhythms. Just a thought.

Thank you very much for your kind words, I'm glad you got something out of the video and appreciate you taking the time to watch it!

Because they are independent lines, but don't really follow the traditional rules of counterpoint - although it's a tongue-in-cheek statement, because that's quite an archaic view!

@@SamuelRHoward gotcha. I was hoping it wasn't meant in earnest if it was down to Fux' rules.

Thanks very much, I appreciate you taking the time to listen!

No edit! That is from this version: ua-cam.com/video/wpYN4FSFYF8/v-deo.html And thanks for taking the time to watch!

…”that’s Ruth.” YCDTOSA vol. 2 Helsinki!

Thanks immensely for the kind comments! As a Yorkshireman, it's refreshing to hear somebody say something nice about my diction!

@@SamuelRHoward Having an extensive background in choral music, where the necessity for exaggerated articulation and precise rhythmic placement of final hard consonances such as "d" or "t" are mandatory if you want the words to have meaning as well as sounding beautiful. I probably should have used articulation, enunciation and pronunciation as well as diction. My favorite vocal ensemble performing one of my favorite choral works. Enjoy, ua-cam.com/video/ViSQRzLk68s/v-deo.html

@@brandom1953 Thanks very much, I love Britten! I didn't know this recording, sounds beautiful. Cheers!

And thank you for going through the video!

Thanks ever so much for the kind words! I'm glad you found it interesting even if you don't yet regard yourself as knowledgeable on music - perhaps this was a step into that world... Glad you liked my piece!

Thank you for the kind words. I would be curious to see just how much Zappa disagreed with what I get from the piece! I have a feeling he might be sceptical of this sort of line of enquiry more generally

As are you! Thanks for taking the time for watch.

Thanks very much for watching, I’m glad you found the explanations helpful!

If I remember correctly, I recorded this video with a Chinese Fender Modern Player 5, which has humbucker pickups which can be split, as if it’s single coil. I think I recorded this with all pickups on, tone maybe halfway up, possibly less, but since I moved away more than 18 months ago, I can’t really remember, as I use a totally different bass nowadays! Everything was just DI, though, no amp

Cheers!

Cheers fella! You’re not wrong. Love rosewood, especially sunshowers. Nicked some of the cadence ideas from Don Ellis as well, strawberry soup

Cheers mate! Re the diagrams if it’s an accessibility issue I’m unaware of, my apologies! If not, then I have faith in your recovery.

@@SamuelRHoward lol, you have them wrong way 'round, mate.

@@rillloudmother fuck a priest, you’re right as well, I never flipped the image before the highlights!

@@SamuelRHoward i flatly refuse, but iirc your major 7ths look like rootless dominant 7th 13 #9 voicings.

@@rillloudmother yep, you’re spot on - the perspective is completely buggered

I actually considered using knuckle's theme tune as the background music in the beginning explanation instead of the audio from the roxy film, but decided it might be lost on some of the older Zappa enthusiasts

@@SamuelRHoward Ha! I love that you hear it too. If you are familiar with the music, it's clearly written in the same manner. But you probably made the right choice there. Enthusiasts could have taken it the wrong way, even tho it's actually a compliment. Cheers!

I know and have the Slonimsky book, and have used it myself, but I don’t know if any of the ideas from this part of this tune were directly derived from it. Zappa described the book as ‘the improviser’s bible’, so perhaps he had some things memorised which came out in this tune when he worked it out on guitar (which I’m sure at least one half of it was worked out on guitar for reasons stated in the vid). Ultimately I’m not sure, but if anybody has any sources that suggest he got this idea specifically from Slonimsky, I’d love to see it!

I play keyboard, this part fails me all the time... I need some mnemonic tips :) It does look much simpler on guitar indeed.

@@TheBigBosske it's certainly harder on keyboard, especially if you're also playing the left hand in 5/16 all the way through!

Thanks for taking the time to watch and for the kind remarks! Glad you found it helpful. The Roxy version gets very hariy very fast, but I love it still.

Cheers, hope it's useful

You can use a soundfont player with a DAW. For example, for this video, my DAW was Reaper, and my soundfont player was Sforzando. Then you just download the Spyro soundfont collection and load it into the soundfont player. Check the pinned comment thread, that should give you a lead on the actual soundfonts.

@@SamuelRHoward thank you so much i truly appreciate. Last question is it possible to transfer the sound fonts on to GarageBand?

@@starrealm2621 I’m not actually sure about GarageBand because I’ve never used it, but as long as it supports VSTs, you should be able to use a soundfont player with it like with any other DAW

Thanks for watching, and for the kind feedback!

Thanks for watching and for the kind words!

Thank you very much!

Thanks for sharing this. Distinctively angular, very dramatic gestures! I like it.