Money in Your Pocket Any Way

It is difficult to synthesize the amount of strife America has experienced since 2020, and synthesis is common for me.  I have synthesizers, but they don't try to kill you.  Instead through various sonic architectural engines such as FM, subtractive, and modeling machines full of sophisticated electronic circuitry create interesting, useful, and sometimes beautiful sounds.  The field of music never was an enemy of anyone except the Nazi's.  They called Jazz devil music.  Because I am a jazz musician I am going to try to remember the Nazi's felt this way.  Jazz also is the least popular music in America, its birthplace.  American Jazz was a synthesis, but it doesn't try to kill you.  It, this improvisatory swing-based music, was the result of diversity in the Port of New Orleans.  Would Jazz have emerged without African-Americans?  The answer is probably no.  If one looks at the Caucasian roots of European-based chamber and orchestral music, there is no evidence of Jazz.  The one similarity is Basso Continuo in Baroque music with its use of Figured Bass.  It is the example for a jazz chord chart or lead sheet.  It tells you the root of the chord written in the bass staff and a numerical figure written above it to represent the appropriate intervals for the keyboardist to build a chord.  One must understand music theory to do this.  Jazz lead sheets are easier, because they eliminate the numeric representations of intervals and use other symbols for the differentiation between major and minor.  There is variance in different fake books, but the standard is a triangle for a major chord and a dash for a minor.  The sevenths and other chromatic alterations of the chords still use numbers.  When chords get more complicated, a short cut can be used that the best jazz players utilize.  It is Polychords, or one chord superimposed over another with a slash separating them.  I use these when I compose, and it is of great benefit.  If you want to sound hip and modern in your playing (which is not playing the 1, 3, 5, and 7 of a dominant 7th chord) you find another major or minor triad from a different key that contains only color tones or chromatic alterations of the dominant 7th chord.  For me realizing half diminished chords is facilitated with the superimposition of a minor triad a minor third up from the root.  That would be a d minor triad over a b half diminished chord (or b minor seventh with a flatted fifth.)  Enough music theory for the moment.  There was improvisation in European music usually presenting itself as a cadenza at the end of a piano concerto.  Most people agree that Beethoven swung (with syncopation), but the formal court-like behavior of European royalty wasn't known for its physical, athletic, and emotional outpouring of casual music.  Jazz is a folk music, and while it does now have a written catalog or repertoire, it is performed mostly impromptu and for the moment.  I don't think it can be argued that the severity and seriousness of slavery is what infused Jazz with its emotional content.  Had there been no racial strife, Jim Crow laws, and illegal lynchings would musicians just have continued plucking banjos on barges on the Mississippi River?  Were the Blues a metaphor for the oppression of slavery?  Perhaps poverty alone could have evoked this deep emotional lamentation, and easily it can be found in the folk music of other cultures.  These Scot/Irish and English "ballads" were stories, and often they were sung in minor mode like Gregorian Chant.  The contemplative character of this music is clear, and other practices contributed to a serious or pious tone.  There can be no greater lamentation than Jesus dying on the cross for our sins, and the singing of modal music at a slow tempo with a Latin text in a huge cavernous cathedral is a perfect metaphor.  The white settlers in America who fell on hard times from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression saw equal depths of despair, but angry Confederates were not trying to kill them because of the color of their skin.  The nature of slavery while brutal was a part of Jazz music.  While pundits will dispute the analogy of suffering being necessary for anything positive, often the depths of despair are what force the human mind and soul to actualize.  We as the human race have the power to rise up and change our plight.  It is unfortunate the United States of America, with a newly elected dictator, has chosen to augment our plight.  It is unfortunate a pathogen was created in a lab and unleashed on the world for a plenitude of reasons, ethnic cleansing only being one of them.  Maybe it was an accident, but HIV was not.  There are too many similarities.  The problem is the inability of people to be willing to accept that they have been forsaken by their own country blindly following the image of what they would like to represent their own perception of honest American leadership.  We have lost that.  The quicker you understand the better chance you have of survival.  When your entire medical establishment influenced by the corrupt Sackler Family turns against the populace, you better wake up.  I saw it coming two decades ago, and it always leads right back to Dick Cheney.  It is fascism, and they enjoy torturing and killing people.  How can you determine the difference between average Americans and immigrants?  Lump them all together and send in the National Guard.  Can we believe what we are seeing, and the courts are our only defense.  The debacle of the botched response to Covid will go down in history as one of America's most grievous missteps.  Not only did it thin the population, it made specific pharmaceutical companies rich.  Who would have been the model for this behavior?  Flu vaccines have coronaviruses in them saith Dr. Judy Mikovits.  Never has it been a good idea to take the flu vaccine with the Covid vaccine.  I did at the behest of Walgreens, and it made me sicker.  Emphatically I can say with my experience with local doctors, I would not trust any of them.  Upon scrutiny of their suggestions often they make you worse, but they get to continue treating you.  Money in their pocket is more important than helping you.  Sounds like our President.