Reply To: The Random Post Thread (Game Potential)
Time and space are interchangeable, and often even cease to exist, during long-haul travel. Greetings from Dubai airport, where I'm sentenced to wait for the next eight hours before I get to board my connecting flight home.
I commenced my travels with music manuscript paper and JoCo in hand with the aim of doing some transcribing. Boarded first flight idly wondering what song is a good starter. And then. DUH! How can it be anything but SkyMall?
@three08: the internet connection is too slow here to warrant me searching for the other thread now, but your stress analysis intrigues me. There is a thread where somebody recently posted a transcription of Still Alive and we opened up the same sticky subject, namely that the division of measures gives tri-UMPH, even though the true accent is the correct TRI-umph. It does give one hassles in deciding how to notate it, i.e. whether it should be written syncopated (imagine tri-I-umph) with the actual performance as a straightened version of that , or whether one writes what is sung, which makes it look like the songwriter doesn't understand speech accents.
Sad news: I did this variety concert on Thursday with every intention of singing (as a non-singer) either RYB or Tom Cruise Crazy. But then I chickened out when I realised that the audience's average age would be 65. I did manage to introduce "Send in the clowns" with the phrase "This song is dedicated to everybody out there who takes themselves too seriously". And I heckled my ex-headmaster (and long-suffering maths teacher) when he tried to say something about me afterwards. Yay for sedate rebelliousness.