Re: Simple Songs?

I looked up parodies of twinkle & found:

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/poetry/twinkle.html

which has the verse I quoted and credits 2 possible authors. It leaves
out the Lewis Carroll version about the bat.

On Mar 8, 6:25 am, "Lemmo" <blindlemmingchif...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are lots of 2-chord songs, mostly bluegrass and fiddle tunes,
with very few notes and intervals.
"Shady Grove" is my own favorite.
Maybe try a google search for 2-chord songs and 1-chord songs.

That's right - in the Sitar period of the 60s a number of rock 'n'
roll hits got it down to one chord. "The Beat Goes On" by Sonny & Cher
is a one chord song. "Blue Jay Way" on the Beatles Magical Mystery
Tour album is a one-chord song. Both are "C."

Compared to these, "Twinkle/Star" (which is actually part of a
classical composition) is dreadfully complex.

"Twinkle, twiinkle, little star.
I don't wonder what you are,
For, by spectroscopic ken
I know that you are hydrogen."

That goes back - I don't remember the author - but it was probably pre-
filk - sticks in my mind because it's so bad - it was in a college
poetry textbook I read in 1972.

On Mar 7, 8:19 pm, Karen Rodgers <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I need suggestions for simple songs, we're talking "Down in the
Valley," and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." REALLY dead easy stuff.

I'm sure you're wondering why. I have a big gap in my musical
training... I suck miserably at interval identification. I can sing
them when I hear them, so it's not a hearing issue, it's a brain not
having the right tool set issue.

Any suggestions you can make would be great.

Thanks,

Karen R.


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