This is a little march. A TRIO. A tribute to all the hardships, trials, and tribulations that humanity has had to overcome. To celebrate the birth and return of king of kings.Each persons outlook and experiences make up how and what they feel in the music. Whatever it is, it comes from within your own self. The light you see and feel is there. A very spritual part within each and every one of us. Like the Redwoods and the Grand Canyon. Part of a poem reads, "Snow doesn't give a soft white damm whom it touches".
The music is unusual because it is a march, written by a guitarist. The little victories for all of us who love their craft. We have a victory. We are triumpant being guitarists. YES!!!!
And we have room for HIM.
This little tune was originally written in the key of C. It was transposed to the key of A
There is one modulation from the key of C into F occurring on the 9th measure (really the second ending). The last note of the 2nd ending is a pivot tone. That note is found in the key of A and F. One note that has two functions (A is the root in key of A. and A is the 3rd of the key of F. (The A is common to both keys.) Common tones may be used for modulations that may seem remote.
If the note C is used. The C could be the 5th in C and the 7th of a D7 chord. The trick is to introduce the note. Let the ear get used to hearing the sound and then shift into the next chord/key without the use of a dominant chord modulation.
One measure was written twice.The last beat of page 3 page (second page of tab) is the pick up into the bridge. This was the first time. The second time is in the first measure on the page 4, (third page of tab), has the pick up leading in to the bridge. The reason for having the measure twice was so you could hear the harmonic change from the key of A into the key of F with out the dominant seventh chord.
There is a two measure introduction. A final ending, the coda, is located 3 measures before the end of page 5, the fourth page of tab.
This music was originally written in music notation. TAB is very limited in terms of setting rhythm and note values. No key signatures. Writing in notation moves from left to right. TAB represents the guitar fretboard. With TAB the music moves in string orientation, not in music orientation. It is cumbersome, takes up too much space. A true sixteenth note is not available.
Each 1/2 beat of tab is divided into six parts. The sound of the sixteenth is 3 parts of smallest the time length unit. Dotted notes, dynamics, accent marks, crescendos, loudness and softness and many other elements for describing the music are absent. Sort of like restricting a persons vocabulary. In the meantime we learn to work around that limitation by using our own vocabulary, making the best attempt that we know of in using coherent vocabulary.
