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You are not listening and learning CIA runs Iran. We are not going to go to war with ourselves. We are defeating CIA here now. That will free the people of Iran just as it did NOK.
There is a popular Youtube video that features Wintley Phipps talking about “Amazing Grace.” He discusses how most Negro spirituals can be played on a piano’s black notes. He then points out that “Amazing Grace” can also be played using just black notes. Of course, that hymn was written by John Newton, a slave trader.
Phipps strongly suggests that Newton heard the tune he used for “Amazing Grace” from black slaves. In fact, he mentions that when the song is printed today, Newton gets credit for the words but the music’s writer is always listed as unknown. He then says that when he gets to heaven, he wants to meet the slave called Unknown.
It is a great, heart-warming story, but unfortunately, it is not true. Newton wrote the words of the hymn as a poem, which was how it was published in 1779. We have no idea whether he sang it to any particular tune, but we do know that the melody it is currently sung with (New Britain) was not associated with the song until the 1830’s. Before that time, it was undoubtedly sung to numerous other melodies.
When Phipps discusses the idea of songs being sung with black keys, he is referring to songs that are written using a pentatonic scale. In terms of the scale we use today, the pentatonic scale is a subset that uses five pitches (1, 2, 3, 5, and 6). This is the scale that is created when you play the black keys starting on F#.
Pentatonic scales are prevalent in African American music (including music from slavery) but they are common in much folk music from different cultures. It is certainly possible that the melody of “Amazing Grace” was written by a slave, but that is far from a given. Even if true, there is almost no chance that Newton ever heard that tune or envisioned his hymn being sung to that tune.
That being said, I enjoyed the Phipps YouTube video and I love songs that use the pentatonic scale. I use pentatonic scales often in my arrangements. The runs in “Heaven Came Down” on Portraits of Hope are pentatonic. I am currently arranging “Go Tell It On the Mountain,” which undoubtedly is a product of American slavery and was written using a pentatonic scale.
A few years ago at my church, someone (a visitor) came up and began quizzing me about pentatonic scales. His obvious opinion was that because the pentatonic scale is a subset of the common Western seven note scale, music written using pentatonic scales is inferior.
To that kind of thinking, I have one word: rubbish! First of all, music of that sort does not really only use five tones; tones are used that do not even fit into the Western chromatic scale. African American music highly developed the concept of playing and singing between notes (in the cracks). But secondly, the character of the music is not inferior; it is just different.
So, while I reluctantly have to point out the error of Phipps, my hat is off to the contributions of American slaves to musical development.
Yes and I think that the man playing that role is alive but the Marine went back to real name.
Judge Ellis has now recused himself from this case because it has be come known that he denied a FISA warrant to the FBI on Peter Strock and they had real evidence that it was needed! We might see another judge "retiring"
How is Obama's claims changed by the fact that his father was still married when he took up with and got his mother PG. As far as we have found His father never got a legal divorce from his first wife.
pentatonic scale
for music lovers something new.
Walkaway Joe
Mama told her baby girl take it real slow
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
He's waiting in the car
Mama said girl you won't get far
Thus are the dreams of an average Jane
Ninety miles an hour down a lovers lane
On a tank of dreams
Oh if she could've only seen
That fate's got cards that it don't want to show, and
That boy's just a walkaway Joe
Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go
Destined to deceive her
He's the wrong kind of paradise
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
That boy's just a walkaway Joe
Now just a little while into Abilene
He pulls into a station and he robs it clean
She's waiting in the car, oh, underneath the Texaco star
She only wanted love didn't bargain for this
She can't help but love him for the way he his
She's only seventeen and there ain't no reasoning
So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go, 'cause
That boy's just a walkaway Joe
Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go
Destined to deceive her
He's the wrong kind of paradise
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
That boy's just a walkaway Joe
Somewhere in a roadside motel room
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
And reaches for his arms
But she'll just keep reaching on
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known
That boy's just a walk away Joe
Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go
Destined to deceive her
He's the wrong kind of paradise
But it was just another lesson in life
That boy was a walkaway Joe
Mmm yeah,
All he was was a walkaway Joe
Oh,
(Walkaway Joe)
He was a walkaway Joe
Mmm
you have a glaring mistake in your logic
you are assuming that what you been told about Physics is true! What if it is not and there are know MILLION years but across the galaxy in matter of hours.
Hard to compare but there have been some nights that evil was so bad the channel seemed dark just not even my screen the same color. do not know if it was come