Due to spam
Due to spam I have set a limit you can only post one comment every 5 minutes. If I have to I will up that time, but for now I will test the 5 minutes rule.
My Plans for tomorrow.
Well I took tomorrow off, I planned this some time last month. I am going to sleep in tomorrow, then I will hit Matins tomorrow at church. I will probably come home and read. Why did I take tomorrow off, why would some one take a Thursday off. Well first I had 6 vacation days I have to use before the end of the year. And tomorrow is my 30th Birthday. It is a big round number, so I am going to take the day off.
Thanks to Rob and Terry
Today, I asked two of my friends Terry and Rob to go with me when I went to vote, I was worried because back in 2004 moveon was doing aggressive campaigning inside the polling places, and there was almost no privacy on the new voting booths. I was glad when I went in and saw that there was no one campaigning inside the polling place this year. Thanks goes out Rob and Terry again.
An anser to Dan
Dan at Necessary Roughness asked the following question “I don’t know anything about your whistle, but one # in the key of G makes for slightly more readability than two-sharp D 🙂 Not that big a difference though.” To my Post on about transposing “A Mighty Fortress” But since I can not do table formatting in comments I will post the answer here so that I can use table tags in the answer. So here goes my answer.
Dan on the Tin Whistle, I just look at the key signature just to see how to play the C, to give idea how it works the finger is as follows.
| HOLE | A | B | C | C# | D | E | F# | G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | X | X | O | O | X | X | X | X |
| 2 | X | O | X | O | X | X | X | X |
| 3 | O | O | X | O | X | X | X | X |
| 4 | O | O | O | O | X | X | X | O |
| 5 | O | O | O | O | X | X | O | O |
| 6 | O | O | O | O | X | O | O | O |
So for me the key of D and G are just as easy as each other. and for transposing the song would look at this.
| Key | DO | RA | ME | FA | SO | LA | TE | DO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | D | E | F# | G | A | B | C# | D |
| G | G | A | B | C | D | E | F# | G |
| C | C | D | E | F | G | A | B | C |
So as you can see going from the key of C to D is just upping the notes by only about one in most cases and in 2 cases only 1 1/2 step. For the key of G it would be 5 notes in 7 cases and in one case 5 1/2 steps. So for me I felt that it was just easier to go up to the key of D was best for me.
The fire up in Cabot
There was a fire up at Concordia. I wish to send my best to any one that lives there. I know one person that lives there, I am just glad he was at church today as he is every Sunday. So he was safe at our church when the problem happend. He right now is staying with friends. But I wish this did not happen, but I am glad my friend is ok.
Learned how to transpose music for my instrument today
Well today in the Music Theory course I am taking, I learned how to transpose music when it comes to my Instrument (the Tin Whistle) Which can only play stuff in the key signature of D major, G major, E minor, and B minor.
I started some work (I will probably finish tomorrow) on taking “A mighty Fortress” from the C to the key of D ( I picked D since it is just upping the notes by one) And it sounds correct.
Sorry to my readers
If you tried to post a comment in the last couple of weeks, sorry, I was trying a new anti-spam setup, and well I guess everything was being considered spam. I have turned off the thing so you should be able to comment again.
The last miles of my biking this year just put up
I just entered the last 31.09 miles from my bike computer up here so my total miles for this year are 1045.10 for the year, so I guess for next year my goal should be 1200 miles.
Happy Reformation Day
Yes you read that right today is Reformation Day. This day in 1517 Luther posted his 95 Theses on the Church door in Wittenberg.
Also if you have children I hope they had a good and safe Halloween, I do feel sorry for the kids in the Pittsburgh region, since it rained tonight.
I also hope you all have a good All Saints day tomorrow, and a good All Souls day on the 2nd.
Does any one want to hear
Does any one want to hear some of the Christmas Carols I have been practicing as of late. If any one want to hear some of them I am willing to record them and convert them to mp3’s and upload them here. So does any one want to hear any of them. The ones that I am will to put up are as follows
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Oh, Come, Oh, Come, Emmanuel
- We Three Kings
- O Christmas Tree
- Away in a Manger
- God Rest you Merry Gentlemen
if you would like to hear me do one of these I can record it and put it up, just let me know in your comment which one you would like to hear.
Pictures from the Pittsburgh Area Reformation Celebration
The Pictures from the Pittsburgh Area Reformation Celebration for this year are up now.
Today probably will be my last day biking to work this season
Well since the daylight change, and that the sun is setting so close to 5, and that it is getting colder, I think the biking season is over for me. I will probably just walk to work for the winter. I will put the last of my miles up later.
What a day
Well today was a bit long. After church today, we had our yearly Octoberfest, then after that we went to First Lutheran in Sharpsburgh. Finally after I and Joe got back we started to practice the Christmas Carols that we are planning to play on Dec 1. We have some work to do. He and I have to start to learn each others timing. here were some Carols that we just clicked on and it was almost as only one instrument was being played even though he was on the piano and I was on the Tin Whistle.
One thing that I am excited about the fact that I can play a few Christmas Carols. Back when I started learning the Tin Whistle, that I first mentioned here, in the post titled Chapters, I hoped that by December that I could play one or two, but I am look at about 14 Carols that I have been working on and have hope of really being played ok.
I will also post pictures of the Pittsburgh Reformation Celebration later on when I get them loaded on my computer.
My neighbors must be getting tired of my Tin Whistle
I say this because for the last several days, I have been practicing for 2 to 3 hours a day. I still need to build up the lung capacity, I find at about the 2 or 3 round of a song I start running out of breath and can not keep my lungs filled. Right now there are 10 songs that I am working on, they are 10 Christmas Carols. I am starting to practice them now, that way I have a hope of being semi good at them come December. They are
- O Come all Ye Faithful
- Oh come Emmanual
- We Three Kings
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Silent Night
- O Christmas Tree
- The First Noel
- Joy to the World
- Hark! The Harold Angels Sing
- What Child is this
I should be adding “Once in Royal Davids’ City” to the list soon, but for now those 10 will keep me going with things to practice for a good long while. Also this dang cold I have had for the last 8 days is not helping with my breathing while practicing the music. But come December 1 I will be ready to play these Carols.
I am happy about this because at the beginning I was hoping that I might be able to play one or two Christmas Carols come the Christmas season, and here I am working on 10, so I am hyper close to meeting one of my goals and blasting right past it.
Also over the next couple of months as I practices this more I might not really have the time to post here. I do need to be semi-good by Dec 1.
Rush’s show yesterday
I was listing to Rush Limbaugh’s today, yesterdays show via pod-cast. He was reading a post from some conservative blogger. The bloggers comment said that blogs were/are a major influence in the American political scene. Rush did not say this, but this is something I believe and I wish Rush had said it. What is this, most blogs (99.99%) are unimportant, this includes mine, it is nice to see what others think on both sides (or all side since blogs do show there are more then 2 sides now) But at the same time, a individual blog means almost nothing. I do like my blog, and will continue to blog, but I have always believed this, but who many people really read my blog, I am always amazed when I get a real comment on my blog, and that I a set of readers, I am both honored and humbled, that there are people out there that read my opine and think it worthy to respond to. Yes there are some good blogs out there worth of reading, but they are the extreme minority.
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