I always feel like taking a music theory lesson from you after I read your notes about the keys you’ve used! Wouldn’t F major be directly related to Db major since the F is the Db major chord’s 3rd? I’m hiking in gorgeous Ireland at the moment and don’t have my piano to play this out on! Plus what do I know. I love the piece regardless, …
I always feel like taking a music theory lesson from you after I read your notes about the keys you’ve used! Wouldn’t F major be directly related to Db major since the F is the Db major chord’s 3rd? I’m hiking in gorgeous Ireland at the moment and don’t have my piano to play this out on! Plus what do I know. I love the piece regardless, and as someone else said it has a soft quality to it. Here when it rains lightly they call it soft weather, and it’s been doing a lot of that lately. This piece echoes off the 40 tones of green the Irish say they see here. It sounds like what thick moss on rocks and trees would sound like if we could hear it.
Oh, I love Ireland and its 40 tones. Soft weather is such a lovely phrase - and thank you for comparing this song to thick moss on rocks and trees. Not sure anything could make me happier!
Alright, so you raise a fantastic question re: Db major. The thing about Db major is that instead of an A natural in the key, you have an A flat (there are five flats in Db major: Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, and Gb). That makes the F chord in that key an F minor, not an F major. So, in other words, in the key of Db major, F is the 3rd scale degree, but the chord built on that F is minor: F-Ab-C (as is true for every 3 chord in major scales). Does that make sense? I hope you can find an old piano in some Irish castle so you can play this out!
Yes! I totally get that about the F minor. Cool. Thank you. A piano in some ancient stone ruin—that would be so perfect wouldn’t it? Tonight I’m looking out over the Dingle Bay and I’ll walk along the shore tomorrow and say hello to Ireland from you.
Also want to say I was very moved by all you said in your interview that you shared recently. More about that another time. You went through some very tough times, physically and emotionally. It shows in the sounds you make. I’m glad you’re doing so much better now, and being a dad too. Blessings—
I always feel like taking a music theory lesson from you after I read your notes about the keys you’ve used! Wouldn’t F major be directly related to Db major since the F is the Db major chord’s 3rd? I’m hiking in gorgeous Ireland at the moment and don’t have my piano to play this out on! Plus what do I know. I love the piece regardless, and as someone else said it has a soft quality to it. Here when it rains lightly they call it soft weather, and it’s been doing a lot of that lately. This piece echoes off the 40 tones of green the Irish say they see here. It sounds like what thick moss on rocks and trees would sound like if we could hear it.
Oh, I love Ireland and its 40 tones. Soft weather is such a lovely phrase - and thank you for comparing this song to thick moss on rocks and trees. Not sure anything could make me happier!
Alright, so you raise a fantastic question re: Db major. The thing about Db major is that instead of an A natural in the key, you have an A flat (there are five flats in Db major: Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, and Gb). That makes the F chord in that key an F minor, not an F major. So, in other words, in the key of Db major, F is the 3rd scale degree, but the chord built on that F is minor: F-Ab-C (as is true for every 3 chord in major scales). Does that make sense? I hope you can find an old piano in some Irish castle so you can play this out!
Yes! I totally get that about the F minor. Cool. Thank you. A piano in some ancient stone ruin—that would be so perfect wouldn’t it? Tonight I’m looking out over the Dingle Bay and I’ll walk along the shore tomorrow and say hello to Ireland from you.
Also want to say I was very moved by all you said in your interview that you shared recently. More about that another time. You went through some very tough times, physically and emotionally. It shows in the sounds you make. I’m glad you’re doing so much better now, and being a dad too. Blessings—
Thank you so much, Alice - enjoy Ireland!