Of Seventh Chords and Tremelos

So, today in Musicianship was rather eventful.

First, when I did my rhythm quiz I did something that was not only a first but completely hilarious. On the long notes, my voice had a - according to Lynn - a tremelo. Seriously, my nerves made me unable to control my vocal cords. I couldn't stop the tremelo from being in my voice and the rest of the class plus Dr. Couch had a field day with it.

By the way for those of you who aren't musicians, a tremelo is when you move between two notes very quickly but evenly. It's not a trill which is more random.

Then when we were going over seventh chord identification it became apparent that Lynn has spent way too much time around me. You see, when we first learned them Dr. Couch told us to imagine them as colors. A major-major is yellow, a major-minor is red, a minor-minor is blue, a half-diminished is grey, and a fully diminished is black.

Well, me being who I am, I came up with another way of remembering the chords. Major-major is very sunny and bright - like Autobot Bumblebee. Minor-minor is calm and sometimes slightly sad, and thus it is imprinted in my mind as the Optimus chord. Half-diminished sounds "whiney" so it's Starscream, and the fully diminished sounds very evil like Megatron. Thus, you have my memory system in place.

Well, today, Lynn identified the half-diminished as Starscream. We both sort of looked at each other and mutually agreed that we'd spent waaaaaaay too much time around each other.