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A page for musician Richard (Jon)athan Murphy to share interests & projects including theory, scales, songs, ukes, bass, veena, & the space between a bass ‘n veena 🎵🚀

08/09/2026

Reworked original (written w/ Lewis Mock), “Wishing You Were Home” on baritone uke ⛰️🌷🎶

07/11/2026

Reworked original “Never Alone” uke version 🐻🎶

07/03/2026

Uke cover of Johnny Paycheck’s “It Won’t Be Long) And I’ll Be Hating You” in key of C 🐻🎶

06/30/2026

Veena practice: Workin’ on the gamakas & “silent” notes for the geetham Mandara, nice ‘n easy 🕉️⚖️🎶

06/27/2026

Uke cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind” nice ‘n low in key of F 🐻🎶

06/26/2026

Veena practice: Charumathi is teaching me another geetham & told me to practice them 2 ways for now, one “flat” (without gamakas) w/ talam rhythm, and one with the gamakas (ornamentations) she’s been teaching me w/ talam only in the few rest spaces, & she wants me to practice the “silent” notes in both methods; Here’s the aro/ava & a verse ‘n chorus of Mandara (Kundagowra) played “flat” & again w/ gamakas both nice ‘n easy 🕉️⚖️🎶

06/24/2026

Veena practice: I like that “mode-switching”; Charumathi wants me to keep practicing the 5-scale switch up w/ Alankaram; I figure you can apply it to any exercise; here’s Sarali Varasai #7 at a nice speed 2, one time each in Mayamalavagowla, Shankarabharanam, Kalyani, Kamavardhini, Karaharapriya 🕉️⚖️🎶

06/23/2026

Veena practice: I enjoy learning the gamakas (slides ‘n bends ‘n stuff) & gheetem (short compositions) from Charumathi. This is a verse/chorus of Sree Gananatha (Lambodara) nice ‘n easy & applying teacher’s feedback from our last lesson including not rushing too quickly thru slides; I particularly like the coupla slide-bend combos, so veena-y & characteristic of Carnatic ⚖️🎶🐈‍⬛

06/20/2026

The Melakarta scale system of Carnatic music allows for some very cool scales; Raghupriya is interesting as it has a flat 2, a double flat 3 (so it’s really just a major second from the root), a raised 4, a “normal” perfect 5th, a double sharp 6 (so enharmonically a flat 7) and a major 7. So, it’s root note followed by a half-step to the flat 2, another half-step to the double flat 3, then a step of a double augmented 2nd (enharmonic to 2 whole-steps or a major 3) to the raised 4, a half-step to the 5, a regular augmented 2nd (3 half-steps) to the double raised 6, then one more half-step each for the major 7 & octave root. This is the Traveler ‘n me runnin’ thru the scale & playin’ a rather random ridiculous bassline idea in Raghupriya; just exploring, fun stuff 🧳⚖️🎶

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