Harmony Rule #4: When chords have no common tone, the upper three voices must go in contrary motion to the movement of the bass.

Pretty self-explanatory. I think I explained this before, but when you’re moving from one chord to another, unless you have that common tone you’ve got to have contrary motion between the bass and the rest of the parts.

There’s this little boy, 11 years old, that has a Christmas song on the radio. Just an amazing voice. He must be the pop equivalent to Charlotte Church, or at least in that ballpark. His name is Nicholas Jonas.

So, wow, it doesn’t really sound like I thought much at all yesterday at work. I did some songwriting though, some of which I’m excited about. Songwriting rocks.