Monday, December 10, 2012

tingle in g major



This is going to serve as a congratulatory sound on the habit tracker feature of my Peaceful Habits app.

It's a six-note arpeggio, the first four notes of which are identical to the first four notes in the opening piano riff of Stevie Nicks' song Sara. This was on purpose. One day I was sitting at the piano playing the opening notes to Sara, and I got a chill down my spine. Actually, it was a warm feeling, an exhilarating feeling. Something about the chord triggered a pleasure in me, an invigoratingly peaceful emotion. I thought, hmmm... I can use that!

I started with an iPhone recording of me playing the notes on my Yamaha keyboard, in a voice called SparkleTin. Then Luke Thomas matched the timing of those notes and created the mp3 here.