Oh no!!!

The pain! Well, at least you had a good time!

I'm sorry you lost your notebook. I'm gla dyou may be able to redo the chord progressions. As for your voice, don't feel bad. I'm in the same boat as you are. My voice is more suited for narration than singing. I've done karaoke three times, and I think I should have stopped after the first attempt. ;)

Yeah. I'm turning the chord progression that was to become fuDuli into a song for the organ. (I'm temporarily calling it Church, but I will find a better name for it...)

My ideas about music keep shifting. Church's chord progression is based on an idea new to me. I learned/discovered-based-on-a-lot-of-help a different way to generate chord progressions that gives ordinary three-note chords two dimensions to play in. (Four-note chords get three dimensions to play with, and so forth.) Moving up and down the second dimension sounds very, very good. Like tonal harmony, it's prescriptive (it gives limits), but it encompasses tonal harmony.

In writing Church, I learned/discovered-based-on-faint-memories an even more wonderful, radical way to create music that should sound beautiful. It's another way to understand chords, phrases, scales, and whole pieces -- all in one single structure. Unlike the two-dimensional description I gave above, this is descriptive -- anything that could be called music can fit into this structure -- but it's a good way to describe tonal music (and the two-dimensional music above) and to find new ways to build music.

You'll hear the two-dimensional music in my next piece. I'm hoping that I'll find fun ways to use the new structure in the piece after that.

Well, you were on their staff for the longest, so I'm sure you know about checking with con-ops and such. I'm really sorry you lost your notebook, Chip. Regardless of what they contain, they're generally irreplacable. -_-

I'm sorry about it, too.

Though it's very easy to make another musical notebook, and to reconstruct the most important of my notes, it's impossible to remember the melodies, harmonies, and rhythms that I wrote in sketches that I didn't publish here.

(If nothing else, my mistakes are learning experiences.)