Wednesday 23rd July - weeding, gutters, music madness

 I think I must have started it this morning. I was listening to conversation between BB and a builder about the gutters at the corner of the house, and idly pulling up the weeds wildflowers growing exuberantly around the front door;

If left alone for much longer they would be making their way indoors!

Fixing the gutter is going to be expensive. Whoever put it up didn't solve the problem of fixing it to the corner securely, so now we have a damp patch in the bedroom,  and need to hire a tower so the builder can do a 'proper job'. 

Meanwhile, BB carried on with weeding the driveway, filling the garden waste bin. What a difference that has made to the 'kerb appeal', as the estate agents put it.

The drawing above was done on this tablet; this one

is in pencil, just a sketch of a young cherry tree opposite. You can apply to the council to have a tree on your verge, although they insist on planting it and you are charged for the tree. I was about to apply for a cherry tree outside our house, when BT suddenly turned up and planted a telephone pole instead! So I reckoned a street lamp, telephone pole, a water hydrant and an electricity access point on the verge in front of our two semis was probably, enough without adding a tree as well.

Music

The Axis of Awesome demonstrate how many pop songs use the same 4 chords over and over.

I used to love teaching this in piano, electronic keyboard and music theory lessons!

Mini-theory-moment; the roman numerals ar one of the ways of labelling the harmonies. Notesx are labelled A B C D E F G; a scale is (usually) a sequence of 8 eg C D E F G A B C. if you want to start in a different note, eg D, you will have to involve sharps and flats to stop it sounding weird: D E F# G A B C# D.

The chord progression in the track is I, the first note, which is D, IV or 4 which is G, vi or 6 which is B - in lower case because it will sound minor or sad - and finally V or 5, A.

This is a mini-theory-moment so that's all the explanation I'm offering. 

Enjoy the mayhem! I wonder how many songs you recognise!