From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #345 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Monday, September 9 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 345 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: keys [Dave Blackburn ] Re: Tumblr [Les Irvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:55:58 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: keys Laurie offered a helpful transposition method, which when applied to notes and chords, certainly does change the key, with all the pitch relationships remaining constant. For a piano player or guitar player in standard tuning this is, as she says, commonplace in jazz and popular standards, and involves the revoicing of chords to avoid muddiness or thinness, depending on the direction and distance of the transposition. However, this becomes much more involved when you try and play Joni's music in her tunings. You might have a half-step to play with below her tuning but not more without the guitar becoming unplayable. Revoicing the chords while remaining in her tunings becomes an exercise in mental gymnastics (since all the shapes one has learned become of no use, and there are no books to turn to) and besides loses the whole sonority of what she created. A baritone guitar is sort of a solution, but it too is not a simple answer as many strings in Joni's tunings were not lowered. In other words, the baritone guitar solves the dropped pitch notes nicely but the strings will break on the others because they have to go too high. The digital guitar (like the VG8) is another problem solver, although you are sacrificing true acoustic tone. So, if one is trying to remain true to her harmonic language and include all its sonorities, transposition is very problematic, beyond a small interval. What I have done on most of her guitar-based material is learn how to play her voicings in standard tuning and then, if I need to lower a key, the fretboard is still what I know, and I can figure out new fingerings that maintain as much of the original nuance as possible. You'd be surprised at how many JM songs are playable note-for-note in standard tuning if you are willing to reach for some shapes. Marcie, For the Roses, Cold Blue Steel, Furry Sings the Blues, Electricity, Blue Motel Room, to name just a few can be played in standard tuning (or very close, like a drop D) without losing anything. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:57:40 -0600 From: Les Irvin Subject: Re: Tumblr All of these childhood photos were unearthed by Michelle Mercer and appear in her book "Will You Take Me As I Am"... On 9/8/2013 6:39 PM, McKay Catherine wrote: > Wow! These are so cool! I've never seen the child/baby ones. Thanks for passing that along! > > On 2013-09-08, at 8:02 PM, Betsy Blue wrote: > >> There are some great new pix at ilovejonimitchell.tumblr.com. Child/baby >> photos, Luminato shots, etc. A lot of stuff I had never seen before. >> >> Betsy ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #345 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe