Short Final: Blues In The Blue Skies

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Key Takeaways:

  • An aerobatics student is experiencing significant frustration due to numerous lesson cancellations caused by weather, maintenance, and scheduling issues.
  • The student humorously expressed this exasperation by proposing a song titled "Aerobatic Blues," characterized by sobbing over off-tempo minor chords.
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For AVweb fans who are also students of music theory, from reader Mike Toews:

I teach aerobatics part-time at a local flight school and received the following text from a musically inclined student who was getting frustrated with numerous booking cancellations due to weather, maintenance, scheduling issues, etc., etc.

“I’m writing a song called ‘Aerobatic Blues.’
“It’s just me sobbing into a microphone for three minutes over a bunch of off-tempo minor chords.”

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