Amazing Grace: Just the Black Notes!

[RonD1120 62]

"This will amaze you!"


http://pjcockrell.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/amazing-grace-just-the-black-notes/

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[rushmc 23]

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"This will amaze you!"


http://pjcockrell.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/amazing-grace-just-the-black-notes/

That was great
Thank You

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Apartheid on a piano is as repugnant as any other. Be it on a piano or in society the best music is played when white and black work together along side each other.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I guess that sounds pretty impressive to anybody that doesn't know any better.

While it's true that the pentatonic scale is used in a lot of native African music, it's also used around the entire planet and throughout history. History that predates British slave trade to the US by thousands of years at least back to ancient Greece and probably back at least 6,000 years ago to ancient China.

There is nothing particularly unique about its use in music anywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale

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[Coreece 190]

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I guess that sounds pretty impressive to anybody that doesn't know any better.

Did you listen to the end?

Have ever been part of a big church experience?

Has your heart ever been softened?

Is it all just to mushy for you?

Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

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Have you ever taken a music history class?

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Theres a difference between being soft in the heart and soft in the head

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Coreece 190]

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Theres a difference between being soft in the heart and soft in the head

No, a soft head leads to a soft heart...

A hard head leads to a hard heart...

Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

[RonD1120 62]

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Apartheid on a piano is as repugnant as any other. Be it on a piano or in society the best music is played when white and black work together along side each other.

While your statement has some truth, it is a fine example of linear thinking.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[RonD1120 62]

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I guess that sounds pretty impressive to anybody that doesn't know any better.

While it's true that the pentatonic scale is used in a lot of native African music, it's also used around the entire planet and throughout history. History that predates British slave trade to the US by thousands of years at least back to ancient Greece and probably back at least 6,000 years ago to ancient China.

There is nothing particularly unique about its use in music anywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale

See post #9 above.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[Coreece 190]

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Have you ever taken a music history class?

Ya, right!

I'm a drummer, we don't need history, sheet music, or a head...just good timing and a lil' soul.

Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

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I guess that sounds pretty impressive to anybody that doesn't know any better.

While it's true that the pentatonic scale is used in a lot of native African music, it's also used around the entire planet and throughout history. History that predates British slave trade to the US by thousands of years at least back to ancient Greece and probably back at least 6,000 years ago to ancient China.

There is nothing particularly unique about its use in music anywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale

See post #9 above.

Oh, I'm well aware of the fact you're simply using this as an excuse to evangelize.

I thought I'd contribute some reality.

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[RonD1120 62]

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I thought I'd contribute some reality.

OK, go ahead.

I simply posted what I thought was a feel good message.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

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Apartheid on a piano is as repugnant as any other. Be it on a piano or in society the best music is played when white and black work together along side each other.

While your statement has some truth, it is a fine example of linear thinking.

Thank you, please expand your reasoning.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I thought I'd contribute some reality.

OK, go ahead.
I simply posted what I thought was a feel good message.

Did you realize that if you take the notes from each black key and move them exactly one half step up or down, they're white keys? Yep. Amazing Grace can be played just on the white keys too.

"Amazing!"

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[Coreece 190]

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I thought I'd contribute some reality.

OK, go ahead.
I simply posted what I thought was a feel good message.

Did you realize that if you take the notes from each black key and move them exactly one half step up or down, they're white keys? Yep. Amazing Grace can be played just on the white keys too.

"Amazing!"

But not all songs can be played strictly using a pentatonic scale. The main question I have is this, do all negro spirituals use this scale as the man suggested?

Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

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I thought I'd contribute some reality.

OK, go ahead.
I simply posted what I thought was a feel good message.

Did you realize that if you take the notes from each black key and move them exactly one half step up or down, they're white keys? Yep. Amazing Grace can be played just on the white keys too.
"Amazing!"

But not all songs can be played strictly using a pentatonic scale. The main question I have is this, do all negro spirituals use this scale as the man suggested?

As an absolute? That's ridiculous. Just about any time somebody speaks in absolutes they're wrong. "Most"? Maybe. "All"? Ridiculous.

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[jclalor 12]

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"This will amaze you!"


http://pjcockrell.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/amazing-grace-just-the-black-notes/

Rather ironic the song was written by someone who was a slave ship captain and who even after he retired still invested in the slave trade.

I will never listen to this song the same way again

[Andy9o8 2]

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not all songs can be played strictly using a pentatonic scale.

Carlos Santana does it.

Well, tries to, that is.

[RonD1120 62]

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Apartheid on a piano is as repugnant as any other. Be it on a piano or in society the best music is played when white and black work together along side each other.

While your statement has some truth, it is a fine example of linear thinking.

Thank you, please expand your reasoning.

The message is not about the pentatonic scale. It is about God's grace, human change and racial unification.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[RonD1120 62]

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I thought I'd contribute some reality.

OK, go ahead.
I simply posted what I thought was a feel good message.

Did you realize that if you take the notes from each black key and move them exactly one half step up or down, they're white keys? Yep. Amazing Grace can be played just on the white keys too.

"Amazing!"

Please refer to my post #20.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

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Apartheid on a piano is as repugnant as any other. Be it on a piano or in society the best music is played when white and black work together along side each other.

While your statement has some truth, it is a fine example of linear thinking.

Thank you, please expand your reasoning.

The message is not about the pentatonic scale. It is about God's grace, human change and racial unification.

If its about racial unification then using only the black keys is a prety strange way to deliver the message. That was the point of my OP. Hence the question about why you thought my thinking was linear.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I thought I'd contribute some reality.

OK, go ahead.
I simply posted what I thought was a feel good message.

Did you realize that if you take the notes from each black key and move them exactly one half step up or down, they're white keys? Yep. Amazing Grace can be played just on the white keys too.
"Amazing!"

Please refer to my post #20.

Please refer to my post, "Oh, I'm well aware of the fact you're simply using this as an excuse to evangelize."

Why dress it up with the "Amazing Grace" video if you don't want to talk about that?

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[RonD1120 62]

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The message is not about the pentatonic scale. It is about God's grace, human change and racial unification.

If its about racial unification then using only the black keys is a prety strange way to deliver the message. That was the point of my OP. Hence the question about why you thought my thinking was linear.

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The message is not about the pentatonic scale. It is about God's grace, human change and racial unification.

If its about racial unification then using only the black keys is a prety strange way to deliver the message. That was the point of my OP. Hence the question about why you thought my thinking was linear.

The speaker actually said we are all united in Christ. That should have been a clue.
My grandparents, parents and grad school professors emphasized a concept known as "reading between the lines" to look for a deeper meaning. It is probably just an American thing.