Jul

30

I'm learning a new song by the Beatles called Dear Prudence off the White Album. Its an extremely difficult song to play with interesting changes in time signatures and drum beats over the same meter. Some of John and Paul's harmonies are very difficult to hear on the record so I have to resort to deciphering the chart which is in musical notation form and play the notes for the back up singers to sing in harmony. I'm sure Laurel could sight read it, and like reading a book she can "hear" the melody, notes and harmony just from sight. I haven't read music since 7th grade and deciphering the notes is a laborious process in which I've made a "key" of the notes with the names written out up and down the staff so I can translate them to the guitar. Its similar to counting with fingers. Yes, its very primitive. However, its unlocked some problems in figuring out the song and allowed a break through of sorts. You know how when you read a book you don't struggle with letters and sounding out words, you just fly through it and see and hear the characters in living color, not seeing the black and white. Some people can read music like that on sight, and hear the melodies and harmonies. Remember the movie, Amadeus, and the scene where Salieri is reading Mozart's score and "hears" the sublime music in his head.

Chair wrote and filmed about the similarities between music, notation, and price history charts. Music has discontinuities, jumps that give dynamism, chords. Price charts also have gaps, jumps, air drops. Music has rhythm changes and meter and time signatures. Do multiple markets, such as bonds and equities have chords for their various relationships? Financial markets appear to have rhythm changes. I wonder if they could be classified as to meter and time signatures. The exchanges designate fast markets which operate under different rules. There could be others such as the meter of the open, the slowness in midday, the jumpiness of the close. An interesting thing about notation is that is does not capture rhythm or feel. That is left to notes and interpretation. For example beats such as the shuffle, straight beats, appear the same in notation. I believe also that one cannot copyright rhythm. That's interesting that European notation does not capture one of the main elements of the music. There are similar rhythmical things that price charts also fail to record. The information in time and sales does not appear in regular interval time price charts. Price charts capture price change, but not the rhythm at a single price.


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