ClassicalCode » Gilbert Eldredge http://blog.classicalcode.com Music, Software, Finds Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:34:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mary Had a Little Lamb – Parallel Fifths http://blog.classicalcode.com/2009/12/mary-had-a-little-lamb-parallel-fifths/ http://blog.classicalcode.com/2009/12/mary-had-a-little-lamb-parallel-fifths/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:05:27 +0000 Jordan Eldredge http://blog.classicalcode.com/?p=735 Inspired on my previous experimentation with parallel fifth harmonies, and my new ukulele (more on that soon), my dad and I recorded this version of Mary Had a Little Lamb where I sang and played the same song a fifth above. He was playing his guitar and singing in the key of C, and I was playing my ukulele and and singing in the key of G.

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Congratulations:
[See original post to listen to audio]
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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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