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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Piano music for the songs on Harmonium...
« on: April 21, 2005, 12:11:24 pm »
i didn't mean to sound so demanding. i didn't know i typed the same sentence twice, b/c i do that sometimes when i'm absent-minded :oops: . i just went back over my first post [i'm a newbie here, b/c the other official Van Carlton Community just doesn't get visited that often, which is rather disappointing], and edited it, even though i goofed still when i did it this time. :oops:
y'all probably think that i'm dumb when it comes to the knowledge of piano chords, but all i'm saying is that i'm just most familiar with [and most accustomed to] hearing just major and minor chords in pop music, b/c they're most commonly used. [i have yet to get classical training in piano, and that's why my knowledge doesn't really extend beyond the Minor and Major scale.]
now that you've mentioned the Dorian scale, you've refreshed my memory of learning it in chorus class when i was back in the 8th grade. i wasn't really interested in piano then, so it confused me. [my teacher was the only idiot playing the piano, so none of us didn't really know what she was talking about.] and that's probably why i couldn't figure out for the life of me what chord the song was in, and that was b/c it was in the Dorian scale.
i'm thinking that when they actually release the Harmonium songbook, that they might transpose the song to another key to make it easier for most of us to play, b/c remember, when they publish a songbook, the mainly have the players in mind who aren't classically-trained pianists, and the ones who are ignorant when i comes to chords or chord progressions.
there are various websites that you could go to that displays various chords, and they not just Major and Minor. there are far more chord names than that. the keyword is 'Virtual Piano Chords'. i hope that clears things up.
y'all probably think that i'm dumb when it comes to the knowledge of piano chords, but all i'm saying is that i'm just most familiar with [and most accustomed to] hearing just major and minor chords in pop music, b/c they're most commonly used. [i have yet to get classical training in piano, and that's why my knowledge doesn't really extend beyond the Minor and Major scale.]
now that you've mentioned the Dorian scale, you've refreshed my memory of learning it in chorus class when i was back in the 8th grade. i wasn't really interested in piano then, so it confused me. [my teacher was the only idiot playing the piano, so none of us didn't really know what she was talking about.] and that's probably why i couldn't figure out for the life of me what chord the song was in, and that was b/c it was in the Dorian scale.
i'm thinking that when they actually release the Harmonium songbook, that they might transpose the song to another key to make it easier for most of us to play, b/c remember, when they publish a songbook, the mainly have the players in mind who aren't classically-trained pianists, and the ones who are ignorant when i comes to chords or chord progressions.
there are various websites that you could go to that displays various chords, and they not just Major and Minor. there are far more chord names than that. the keyword is 'Virtual Piano Chords'. i hope that clears things up.
