Everyone in America has heard the song of the red-winged blackbird. It’s one of those birds that sounds like a dial-up modem. Back in the old days, you had to fire up the internet and it played sweet electronic music like a chorus of annoying birds. Now the internet is always on and it sucks. […]
Archive of posts tagged The Beatles
Rock Star Grammar
Rock star grammar is a subject very dear to me, and woe to the Chicago-style Nazis and prescriptive word-wardens, the Creative Writing teachers and literalist listeners; woe to ’em. Sometimes the demands of the melody outweigh the goal of making sense or even expressing meaning to your audience. Sometimes the song just writes itself, and […]
A Hard Day’s Chord
The most famous chord in all of rock ‘n’ roll is the opening chord of “A Hard Day’s Night” by The Beatles. If the Galaxy runs anything like in Close Encounters, then the above chord will function diplomatically. I’m sure it already has, here on Earth. If Lewis Carrol were to develop a portmanteau word […]
Major Sevenths
Hello, and welcome to the Los Doggies blog! This is the very first post, so I’m writing about my favorite chord — the Major Seventh. Check it out on this crappy out-of-tune guitar. It’s called the Chord of Love. To understand why, let’s take a look at the 4 beautiful notes that form a Major […]
