Lynn
Ben, point taken. I was counting it as 6/8, close but no cigar. Yet, it doesn't have the feel of a waltz, but the more I hear it, the more I like it.
Hey Lynn, ah your probably right...because I'm autodidactic, I taught myself music theory and because of my ADHD/Asperger's I just don't register other possibilities. On saying that 3/4 is 6/8 relatively speaking...mea culpa though.
The waltz thing, yea I'm thinking you can dance to it and because it's in simple triple or compound duple time lol and everything in these meter's is a waltz to me...again not seeing the dust in the wind-because technically it's not. I might even be wrong about the dance thing...I think you can dance in 5/4...so maybe I should shut my mouth and become a mute.
If the conservatorium of crap-Adelaide Uni would sit down with me and give me one on one tuition I would go a lot further faster. It's very hard for me, because I have really advanced knowledge and no knowledge, I'm like a blender of music theory. To go back to the start would and did drive me mad, I tried to go back to the start in 2012, but the pace was agonisingly slow. I could pick things up really quickly and remember things from only one sitting but some things like rhythm writing and figured bass did my head in.
There seemed to be no consensus on we could learn all of this stuff quicker if we used music score writing software too. Once you have learnt how to do it on the computer, then you go back and learn to write it by hand...just in case the world goes dead over night...don't wont to lose hundreds of years of music theory advances because no one can write it by hand.
And then don't get me started on the aural training, for Christ sake liturgical music in non secular universities is evil (sorry to the Christians). When I suggested Queen would be a perfect place to learn harmony singing, I was laughed at. There is still this arrogance within conservatoriums which suggests classical's superiority, even Jazz is thought of as a poor cousin. With music being seemingly devalued everyday, which has knock on effects i.e. advances in music technology-honestly "popular" music has driven music technology since well at least Bach. Without money...nobody will make music, or buy the music technology.
This is what the hi-brow Adelaide conservatorium bigwigs don't get, by separating the schools into a class system, we are losing the best musical minds to a continuation of a "dead" art-I say this loosely because it would not take much to resurrect it. The technology is beyond anyone's wildest imagination-it's not perfect but it's Beethoven's dream-this music world. Everyday I learn something new, a new possibility greets me, hybrid notions play in front of me. Mastering the technology and improving my theory is the only thing holding me back-I've mastered the guitar now, which because I don't have a proper set-up or place to record I can't show-I was doing 4 hours a day a few weeks ago scales and I am proficient in most of the major and minor scales on the guitar, I know the blues modes and again mostly proficient across the different key's, harmonic minor, yep, and the Phrygian too, the rest I know by ear...oh I forgot pentatonics and I'm totally proficient on these .
Heck using the orchestral software has improved my ear beyond my wildest dreams...I can hit all the notes vocally...I've ironed out my technique, I always could hit the baritone, to the countertenor range...I.e. Freddie's range but because I could not hear properly I use to strain trying to get the upper notes...now I know how.
I should admit though I have had chemical help for my ADHD-I'm the Lance Armstrong of musical academia.
Sorry ranting-sitting around waiting for various universities to respond-fighting Adelaide University for being kunts to me-trying to remain positive and keep working-lots to do, now I've figured some new mixing and mastering techniques time to fix all the previous compositions and their flaws-yes I know I have presented flawed pieces in the past.
Ben