I am thinking about music a lot. I have always sung. The first recording that I made was when I was in kindergarten at Castle School and my mom rewrote the words to "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" from the musical ___. We did a play and I played a cat and sang about wanting tuna and milk and "Meow... wouldn't it be loverly?" But that isn't the thing I was thinking about when I started this blog entry.

Lately I have been stretching my mind to learn more music theory because I am in a teacher certification program for ukulele teachers taught by James Hill. I never took a music theory class in school. I sang in choir in high school and in the vocal jazz ensemble in college and was familiar with the idea of intervals but never had to label them or teach them. Now I am learning them so that I can teach them to my second year students that are playing ukulele.

I was searching around on the Ukulele in the Classroom site and found a thread that lead me to The Musical Intervals Tutor. I like how it lists songs that many people are familiar with so that you can imagine the different interval in your "minds ear" before you listen to it. This song starts with a major third. What would it sound like with a minor third instead? This video was done on a FlipVideo last summer near Banyuls Sur Mer in the south of France when James and I couchsurfed with Leonardo.

He took us up to the view between towns. I have a memory blog about our whole couch surfing experience started. I lost my muse when I deleted the notes (note) I was taking on my iPad on the flight home. I am only now beginning to retrace our footsteps.

Back to playing.