start time

~ somehow, even the motion of a musical object, a single note moving through time creates gravity, a tonal gravity and we can bend a note just like light will bend ~

~ 2 & 4 ~

~ the clicks ~

~ rhythms ~

~ syncopation ~

~ advanced time ~

~ advanced time vision ~

~ coda / piano pitches ~

"Time is the final currency."

wiki ~ David Crosby

In a nutshell / start ~ time. Landing here, good chance this'll be some new vocabulary. We all get to be new, just gotta get started. The nutshell here is to get you to think about musical time. About how we can understand, in theory and art, musical pitches in motion through measurable time and some of the ways in musical words that we describe this magic.

These next ideas are all 'time' vocabulary links to their discussion throughout the text. Find one and off you go, read, pic and click your curiosities. Write down your questions for your mentor. There's that perfect closure to all of our study topics, and in time and rhythms too.

Time or rhythm ... ? Time in music is what helps get everyone on the same page, for all share in the measure of time as the beats go by the same the globe on over. Rhythm, and especially the ones we each create, is the way we get our own timing to pulse and chime on in with the rest of the world :)

~ a suggestion to start ~

Find a radio, turn it on and find some music, listen to the timing of the song and sing, clap, even count along with the pulse, finding the 'loop' of rhythm that motors the song along. Move to the next station, same process, then next station etc. Might be a dozen different songs to survey in one full spin of the dial. By the time we're back to the beginning, there's prolly a new song being played, and if its in a similar style, so might its rhythms share common elements. These we explore to we understand their theory and write it down with standard music notation.

Or ... just pick and click and off ya go !

~ and now 3's a charm ~

~ now we bring the swing ~

~ count measures into forms ~

theory chapters

References. References for this page come from the included bibliography from formal music schools and the bandstand, made way easier by the folks along the way. In addition, books of classical literature; from Homer, Stendahl and Ladurie to Rand, Walker and Morrison and of today, provided additional life puzzle pieces to the musical ones, to shape the 'art' page and discussions of this book. Special thanks to PSUC musicology professor Dr. Y. Guibbory, who 40 years ago provided the initial insights of weaving the history of all the fine arts into one colossal story telling of the evolution of AmerAfroAsiaEuroLatin musical arts. And to teacher-ed training master, Dr. Joyce Honeychurch of UAA, whose new ideas of education come to fruition in an e-book.

wiki ~ Americana

Dr. Joyce Honeychurch

an e-book

find a mentor

"Life is about creating yourself."

wiki ~ Bob Dylan

Find an e-book mentor. Always good to have a mentor when learning about things new to us. And with music and its magics, nice to have a friend or two ask questions and collaborate with. Seek and ye shall find. Local high schools, libraries, friends and family, musicians in your home town ... just ask around, someone will know someone who knows someone about music who can help you with your studies of the musical arts with this e-book.

the author can help too :)

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mentor finding flow chart

Intensive tutoring. Luckily for musical artists like us, the learning dip of the 'covid years' can vanish quickly with intensive tutoring. For all disciplines; including all the sciences and the 'hands on' trade schools, that with tutoring, learning blossoms to 'catch us up.' In music ? The 'theory' of making musical art is built with just the 12 unique pitches, so easy to master with mentorship. And in 'practice ?' Luckily old school, the foundation that 'all responsibility for self betterment is ours alone.' Which in music, and same for all the arts, means to do what we really love to do ... to make music :)

"These books, and your capacity to understand them, are just the same in all places. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."

wiki ~ Abraham Lincoln

Academia references of Alaska. And when you need university level answers to your questions and musings, and especially if you are considering a career in music and looking to continue your formal studies, begin to e-reach out to the Alaska University Music Campus communities and begin a dialogue with some of Alaska's finest resident maestros !