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The morning's work writing and recording.

https://soundcloud.com/the-beau-mondes/valentines-day-ii

Listened to this & the other tune.

It's roman numerals.
ii equals 2
vii equals 7.

Beautiful song, Captain.

Nice song Luther.  I wish I could play the piano, I think writing a song on piano would be incredible.

RR, I can't speak for Luther, but I use lowercase Roman numerals to indicate the "take", if you will.  When I revise a song significantly I save a new file in Logic (recording software) and indicate the new take with lowercase Roman numerals.  So for me, "vii" indicates the seventh saved version.  I believe I copied this notation from Rab.

EoL

Thank you. And you're correct, it's just a Roman numeral: it's just the second song I did that I called Valentine's Day. (Lower case numeral as kind of a play on the fact that it's a bit sad, with lower-case Roman numerals indicating minor chords in music theory, and minor often indicating sad.)


Thank you. I wish I could play piano well. I took a few months of lessons in third grade and had to pass a basic competence test in college to proceed with my music major, but I haven't had the discipline to become a decent player. I'm a bit of a plunker, coincidentally in the style of BW. Mostly just block chords for the architecture of the harmonic structure.

Duh! Who doesn't know? ::)