N-i-c-o-l-e A-l-a-n-i-z
I figured I'd talk a little bit more about writing Angels with Dirty Faces...
Early on, I tried an experiment just to see what would happen. I assigned a letter to each note of a scale -- so the letter "A" would be the first degree of the scale, "B" would be the second degree, and so on... when I ran out of scale degrees, I just started over... so if we were trying this on the C major scale, it'd look something like this:
... and if you took all the notes that corresponded to Nicole's name, it came out sounding like this:
I tried this with a bunch of different scales and modes, and found that Nicole's name turned out to be a really gorgeous melody... and if you stack the notes on top of one another, they spell out a complete 9 chord. So I ended up using this note/spelling to create most of the content of the piece.
Early on, I tried an experiment just to see what would happen. I assigned a letter to each note of a scale -- so the letter "A" would be the first degree of the scale, "B" would be the second degree, and so on... when I ran out of scale degrees, I just started over... so if we were trying this on the C major scale, it'd look something like this:
... and if you took all the notes that corresponded to Nicole's name, it came out sounding like this:
I tried this with a bunch of different scales and modes, and found that Nicole's name turned out to be a really gorgeous melody... and if you stack the notes on top of one another, they spell out a complete 9 chord. So I ended up using this note/spelling to create most of the content of the piece.
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