Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 06, 2010

Is that Ricks’ Stone Canyon Band?

“Rocks of Ages…”

How archaeologists discovered Rick Astley was sent back in time.

And this became the drum solo to “In A Gadda Da Vida”.

Have I been ‘Rickrolled’?

Rock and roll is older than I thought.

Okay, so I took note of it……at least I tuned in

Does anybody recognize it? (not a trick question, I really don’t know if it’s the opening to something….)

Agreed baslim! :)

Flagged the spammer…

Beats me.

Two spammers (so far) today….. Moderator please nab them!! @Hector. LOL That is a band joke. Also “how do you get two piccolos in tune?” “Shoot one”!

Ooh, I’ve been flagging the one spammer, and then I spot a second one! Woo woo!!

As a pretty tone deaf person, this cartoon really speaks to me. I was at a monastery once, chanting prayer, and the lady next to me nudged me and pointed to the actual notes. I gave her a helpless look. Afterward, I told her that when I sing, I just try to imitate the folks around me, but I’ve never figured out how to translate notes on a page into actual sounds (other than relatively higher and relatively lower and longer versus shorter). She sighed.

@chaosed. i don’t think it’s a real piece.

for starters it looks like the treble clef (top line) is in 9/8 (3 groups of 3 eighth notes) and the bass clef (bottom line) is in 3/2 (3 half notes). while in theory those meters could be mixed when half the band needs to be in duple and the other half in triple, it rarely happens before the 20th century and always needs an explanatory note.

also the key signature is a bit odd. 4 sharps would be e major (c# minor) though the sharps in the key signature are incorrectly placed. in the treble clef # should be top line, third space, above top line, fourth line. bass clef # should be fourth line, second space, fourth space, third line.

finally the chord progression (as best as i can tell) makes little sense. d-sharp half diminished 7, b major in first inversion (with appoggiatura), c# minor 7.

but music is experimental. i’m sure someone could create an interesting jazz piece with this as the basis.

[i mean no disrespect, wiley. i actually enjoyed analyzing it.]

@k8giggles, thanks for saving me the trouble. I was going to post almost exactly what you did. Except for the tempo. I was going to grant Wiley a little poetic license, allow the bass as quarter notes and the treble as triples instead of individual eighth notes. Then it comes out as a sort of waltz, but more like a 1940s musical production number than something you would dance to.

And no, I sure don’t recognize the tune.

@k8giggles, thanks for saving me the trouble. I was going to post almost exactly what you did. Except for the tempo. I was going to grant Wiley a little poetic license, allow the bass as quarter notes and the treble as triples instead of individual eighth notes. Then it comes out as a sort of waltz, but more like a 1940s musical production number than something you would dance to.

And no, I sure don’t recognize the tune.

…oh man, you guys know how to take the fun out of comics.

this is funnier than the cartoon

Well, I don’t know much about music theory, but this is obviously, “Duet, Four Beaters and Log”.

♫♪♫Flintones, meet the Flintstones…♪♫♪

I didn’t know logs had such a range of notes in them.

there where probably some beans involved

Okay, can you stand one more musician joke?

Q: What’s the difference between an accordian and an onion?

A: Nobody cries when you chop up an accordion.

It’s not a cave, it’s a cavern and the music is the start of “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” by The Beatles. I can tell that and I don’t even read music.

Anyone ever think that getting you musical composition from Wiley is like getting your science from Rush. (I feel free to paraphrase myself today.)

Q. What’s the integral of 1/Cabin ? A. Log Cabin

Ya, I know…sorry.

Maybe it’s time to log-off.

heh heh - love it!

love it! although… how do you get more than one note out of one tube? and maybe someone above is using L ucy in the S ky with D iamonds….

DRUUUUUMS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncRgAnwDkn8

Hey freeholder1: Wiley’s music isn’t nearly that good.

Remember that “ln” is natural (log)rhythm.

you can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish!

All kinds of ways to tune a log, tho.

Famous last words spoken by the jazz trio …

Rockmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Cro-magnon

“Setting music back 10,000 years…” (Where’s Spike when you need him?)

…What it is about this little corner of the internet that draws such a pedantic lot?

The original stoner rock.

In addition to the aforementioned problems, the dots on the bass clef are bracketing the D line instead of the F line.