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.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
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6 comments:
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!
Sure. I'll make a blues scale for ya. It only takes a few hours to make these stupid widgets!
only a few hours? well in that case do it in all 12 keys. thats what vinnie always made us do
hehehe
Dear readers: She is referring to legendary New Paltz Jazz Historian - Vinnie Martucci.
VIN!
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