March 16, 2009 

Row Row Your Boat

I was at home with my parents and my girlfriend Chelsea, and my dad was singing “Take Me Out To the Ball Game” off by one word. He then proceed to sing it again off by TWO words. Eventually the evening was reduced to repeating the song over and over and trying to shift the words one note back each time. We soon realized that this was a sort of phase music. If the number of words is one fewer than the number of notes, the words shift father and farther from their original position in the melody creating various interesting word stresses and pairings.

I decided to take this idea to it’s logical extreme and found a short enough song that, within a reasonable period of time, it can be repeated enough times that the words eventually make the full journey back to their original position. Here is a video of me singing “Row Row Your Boat”:

In order to actually sing this, I had to create sheet music for it.
Here it is: row_row.pdf

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21 Responses to “Row Row Your Boat”

  1. bozeke March 16, 2009 at 6:49 pm #

    [..YouTube..] :-)

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  2. bozeke March 16, 2009 at 8:49 pm #

    [..YouTube..] :-) 

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  3. Chelsea March 16, 2009 at 10:20 pm #

    vo! You sang it so well too! Bra

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  4. VideoBuck May 13, 2009 at 8:12 pm #

    [..YouTube..] presumably…

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  5. VideoBuck May 13, 2009 at 10:12 pm #

    [..YouTube..] presumably…

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  6. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 8:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  7. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

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  8. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

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  9. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

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  10. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

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  11. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  12. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  13. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  14. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  15. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  16. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  17. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  18. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  19. mandixbabi94 May 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    [..YouTube..] crap! i hit four stars instead of five. Oh well this is amazing

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  20. CrazyDiamond5321 June 3, 2009 at 6:59 pm #

    [..YouTube..] Impressive

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  21. CrazyDiamond5321 June 3, 2009 at 8:59 pm #

    [..YouTube..] Impressive

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