Random Notes

Tom Anderson's music arranging studio & nomenclative anagram. Bespoke notesmithing for all manner of yawps. Fumbling towards piquancy.

[Random Notes @RandomNotesMUS]

This concludes our broadcast day. Please follow @randomnotesmusic on Instagram. ✌🏼❤️🎵

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@eblairbaldwin 🐈‍⬛

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This brilliant series is about to conclude. Do yourself a huge favor: catch up, then await the finale with the rest of us.

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

I've spent weeks listening to every single song from every single Disney animated musical, and I've ranked them all from worst to best on a scale of 0-500, based on 1) lyrics, 2) music, 3) vocals, 4) plot integration, and 5) subjective enjoyment. #DisneySongsRanked🧵

[The Swingles @swinglesingers]

Theatreland.

Musical theatre like you've never heard it before. Out on all streaming platforms 30/8/2024 🎭

#acappella #newrelease #london #londonmusic #musicaltheatre #musicals #swinglesontour #singing #swinglesathome #vocals

[The Swingles @swinglesingers]

A snippet of Hear My Song, from 'Songs For a New World' by the incomparable Jason Robert Brown 🙌🏽

Thank you to our friend @RandomNotesMUS for the arrangement- we absolutely love it and can't wait to share more of it with everyone soon 👀

#teaser #musical #acappella

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.@runjewels @aroratheband

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

What are the two most dissimilar albums that you’d rate both 10/10?

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.@seal “Dreaming in Metaphors”
@OfficialSting “Love Is Stronger Than Justice”
@voxonejazz “Chameleon”

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

What’s a piece of music that’s in an asymmetrical time signature that grooves simply and effortlessly? Like, something that’s in an unusual meter but you can still move to it without thinking much

[Random Notes @RandomNotesMUS]

Would've done @RandomNotesMusic (like my Insta, ahem) but handles must be ≤15 chars. Considered replacing LLC w/ 218 (very few out here repping my home area code in northern MN), music stuff like XML/WAV/MP3, even just "Tom." This seems simplest. Like a Finale file extension 😊

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New handle! I'm now @RandomNotesMUS. Long overdue. "LLC" originated 12yrs ago when I was a full-time lawyer doing 🎵on the side; besides the biz actually being an LLC, the handle was a hat tip to the dual roles. Left law practice months later & "LLC" looked & felt wrong for years

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This isn’t pro- or anti- Sheeran, Gaye, lawsuit, anything. Purely curious about perception. What song is this? LGIO, TOL, other?

[Patrick Allies @PatrickAllies]

Not a lot of people know this, but all the music for English coronations is written in the key that corresponds to the first name of the monarch. So Charles III's service will be entirely in C major, Elizabeth II's was in E major, George V's was in G major etc etc

[Random Notes @RandomNotesMUS]

Score notes for my favorite pad vowel, courtesy of Marge Gunderson

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I generally leave the memes to others, but in a once-in-a-lifetime fluke of my arranging schedule, I am legitimately working on this for a client today, so guess what you’re not done trying to get out of your head

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Just realized that “T.N.T.” by @acdc is very clearly based on the call of the white-throated sparrow

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Only a tiny handful of a cappella groups should be allowed to sing in F major. This is one of them. 🔥🎵🛶

[The Swingles @swinglesingers]

Fun rehearsal on our new Theatreland rep! Loving channeling @iamcedricneal in @guysanddollsuk in this arrangement by legendary #darmonmeader of @NYVoices89 🔥
You can hear this & loads of other brand new tunes at @wiltonsmusichall 5th & 6th May! > https://t.co/L0BGL5L1Jc

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@Holliewood760 Indeed they do. Which is why it’s important to point out that your numbers are horseshit. 27%, not 60. Source: the literal FBI.

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I wish I had had @Komaniecki_R for college theory. I might have actually learned something. Even after you account for the fact that he was eight years old at the time

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@Komaniecki_R Oh INTERESTING

…I’m not sure if that comes off more sarcastically if you _don’t_ know me or if you _do_ 😬 but either way, it’s not, I actually mean it

[Random Notes @RandomNotesMUS]

We are about to #LudacrisDownbeat that second chord my good dude

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

1970s: The Hollies release a song w/ a I-V/vi-IV-iv progression

1990s: Radiohead releases “Creep” w/ same prog, is sued by The Hollies

2018: Lana Del Rey releases “Get Free” w/ same prog, is sued by Radiohead

2025(?): All songs are I-V/vi-IV-iv, everybody is suing everybody

[Random Notes @RandomNotesMUS]

@Komaniecki_R I do, and please forgive me but it doesn’t seem like an edge case? Third (maj) scale degree in the bass, prominent M3 over said bass (i.e., D# in Creep’s G)…but also you’re an actual expert on this, so my question isn’t “you’re wrong,” it’s “what am I missing”