Sunday, May 4, 2008

Suicide Songs

     Hey babies.
     Here's a few more Playground melodies from the handball game "Suicide", or "Butts Up".

     





     
     When a ball lands out of bounds, the player who fetches it can sing a "Relay" to beseech her fellow players to cut off her throw to the wall. A "Challenge" is sung by the other players to deny her "Relay" request. Both figures cover the interval of a Minor Third from G to E.

     The dis below can be used in just about any schoolyard game or life situation.

                    






     "Farted On" is also a Minor Third. It's a little more mature version of "Nana Nana Poo Poo" although the melody is practically the same, and both have a swung rhythm. "Farted On" is usually preceded by a falling "Ohhhhhhhhh!". You don't wanna be on the receiving end of one of those.

     "Into" is short for interference. An "Into" is sung when a ball hits an object out of play. It is identical in melody and rhythm to a "Not It", at a slower tempo.

                         






     In the previous post, I wrote that these playground melodies were in C Major Pentatonic, because they originate from "Ring around the Rosie", a Major folk song. But now I'm thinking that out there on the blacktop, these figures take on a new tonality - the very closely related E Minor Pentatonic. The E acts as a resolution in all of these melodies.

     







     Know who else likes E Pentatonic?
     Jimi Fuckin' Hendrix!
     Try jammin' along with some Nanapoops, Not It's, Into's, and Farted On's.



6 comments:

Unknown said...

can we get the blues scale up on this too sometime? Its like what, one extra note more than the pentatonic?

and the minor blues scale too!

los doggies said...

Sure. I'll make a blues scale for ya. It only takes a few hours to make these stupid widgets!

Unknown said...

only a few hours? well in that case do it in all 12 keys. thats what vinnie always made us do

hehehe

los doggies said...

Dear readers: She is referring to legendary New Paltz Jazz Historian - Vinnie Martucci.

VIN!

Unknown said...

Where on earth did you find that picture?

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