Little Prelude in E Major

So.

For all of you that are hoping for some more jazz, you're unfortunately not going to get any for a while, probably not until October. I recently used up all of the jazz songs I've recorded so far (except for two more of my compositions, which I will release later), although I am in the process of learning more.

You might know that So Danco Samba was my 40th song and I forgot to mention it because I was busy shortening the post a few days before. (I pretty much always write my posts a few days before with the exception of this one - I wrote it on Tuesday evening.) I had put a lot of information in the post and was trying to keep it short so you wouldn't have to read a book.

But anyways, I was hoping that you would have a big celebration because I've just posted my 40TH Song! Okay. It isn't really that much of a big deal. But when you start out with 3 posts and then you make it to 40, it's kind of exciting. (I hope you're not disappointed that I don't have 10,000 followers by now - "I mean that's almost a whole year, some people---" Hold on a second! Don't say some people. I'm not going to be the same as everybody else, remember, and there's no reason for me to try.)

You may have noticed that my posts have been getting longer as I continue running my blog. It seems that it takes some time to get gears in your brain working at full speed after they've gone a while without being used.

Now back to the point. If you've heard songs like this (and looked at the title) then you'd probably know that it was written by J.S. Bach. His songs generally have a similar theme to them, probably because that was the style of music back in the 1700s and because he had a unique style of writing his music. If you listened to enough songs, you'd be able to tell which ones were written in what time periods and by which composers. (I know because my music teacher could.) I'm not very good at that yet, but I guess it comes when you listen to more songs.

I was picking songs to learn from the RCM syllabus a few weeks ago and noticed that every song in list A (for Baroque music) was written by Bach. In fact, that's what the list was called: "Works by J.S. Bach." Many of the songs on the list had titles in a similar format: "Prelude and Fugue in <some musical key> <major/minor>" Although that title isn't very creative - as opposed to something like "Maple Leaf Rag," although that is a completely different style of music - it gives very accurate information about the song: it's a prelude and fugue written in this key.

I guess you have to judge between accurate, clear-cut facts and creativity. For example, I could have written in this post: "Little Prelude in E Major. This song is classical music, which is going to be the style you'll hear for the next few weeks. So Danco Samba was my 40th song, and I've made progress since then - not too little, not too much. It takes time to get your brain into creative writing mode. This song was written by J.S. Bach, which you could know just by listening to the song because of the way he writes them. Make sure you listen to lots of songs. Many of Bach's titles for his songs give accurate information, but I don't think they're very interesting. But you have to find a balance between fact and creativity. That's all I have to say. Now listen to the song."

Would you rather read everything I've written so far, or that one boring, disjoint paragraph? I think you'd choose the first option. But you also wouldn't want me to pad the post with huge air-filled sponges of useless repetition, constant straying off topic, long, boring rants of opinion, and uninformative but creative spiels asking you over and over again to subscribe to my YouTube channel, between the metal frameworks of useful information that we all came here for. But metal frameworks don't look very good when crammed beside each other to make a huge steel block that no one really wants to read. But as I said, there's a balance. And different people will write their posts in different ways.

But it doesn't really matter how you write your posts as long as you deliver useful content. And that's what I'm trying to do. This week's highlight is this song, Little Prelude in E Major. Don't you want to listen to it?