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The Chrsitmas Scale
My mama told me something when I was growing up that has for
ever changed my life. She played the piano at our little church
at third and pine street for thirty seven years. She tried to
teach me to play the piano, but I wasn’t very good. She would
teach me the names of the notes, what a major key is, what a
minor key is. She tried to teach me musical theory but I was
just bored.
Then one day she told me that the best news in the world is
found by playing a simple scale on the piano. I had no idea what
she meant. So she told me, “Play an eight note scale.” So I did.
(Playing notes going up the scale C D E F G A B C sounds like
“do re me fa sol la si do”)
I said, “How is that good news?”
She said I played it incorrectly and that I needed to play it
the other way. So I did. (Playing notes going down the scale “do
si la sol fa mi re do.”)
Again, I said, “How is that good news?”
She said that I played it the right way, but I needed to add
the pauses. “The pauses?”
“The pauses. Add them on the first, second, fourth, sixth,
seventh and last note.”
Now I was frustrated and said, “How can eight notes with random
pauses be the best news in the world?” Then I got up, walked
away and went outside. Frankly I didn’t care what she was
talking about. I didn’t like playing the piano anyway.
Well, years later my mama got sick and passed away. As I was
thinking about her I remembered what she told me about the
piano.
Not only that, I still remembered the notes she told me to pause
on: the first, second, fourth, sixth, seventh and last note. So
I sat down at her piano and played the scale with the pauses.
(With pauses plays the song “Joy
to the World, the Lord has come.”)
And that’s when I realized the good news she was talking about.
Source: IgniterMedia.com
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