The Human Heart is our natural metronome. It kicks like a bass drum anywhere from 60-80 beats per minute. In Italian, this tempo is called larghetto. It is no coincidence that the moderate rock tempo (120 bpm) – the cut-time of our heartbeat – is the standard tempo for Pop Music. The pitch of our [...]
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Wooh Hooh H’oh Oh Oh
“Wooh Hooh” is a non-lexical vocable, or an “utterance without meaning”, though the meaning is quite clear in the example below. Non-lexical vocables express the pure joy of playing and singing music. Fa la la la la. Ob-la-di Ob-la-da. Backwards, these notes form a D Major Pentatonic Scale. The vocable from Weezer’s Dreamin’ is [...]
