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Recorded on January 7th, 2008, at Peace Church of the Brethren, in Portland, OR, with a Zoom H4 Digital Recorder. Edited with Audacity music software.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
7 Jan 2008, #6. Viola - 4m56s
I like the opening Mixolydian feel to this, the slightly exotic opening chord that is rolled again and again, the two minute build until I find a syncopated but smooth groove that eventually (big surprise) hits a blues progression. There are more wrong notes than I'd like, but who cares?
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Define exotic. If you feel like it. Or state what may influence your sense of the term. (if you feel like it.)
I think the use of the Mixolydian mode (a major scale with a flat seventh degree) here sounds slightly exotic, made more so by the order of the notes. The downward roll is unusual. The first three notes are the seventh, the fourth, and the third, which means that in the first three notes you have a tri-tone and a minor second. Those are the reasons I called it "exotic."
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