Seattle Plastic Surgeon returns from Guitar Camp feeling very harmonious.
I just finished a week at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop which accounts for my feeling that I am in perfect harmony with the universe. Hopefully this euphoria will fade very, very slowly – say over the next 51 weeks and then I will get to attend guitar camp again for my endorphin fix.
This past week I learned a quick way to tune an unwieldy stand up bass without having to fret the strings. The bass is tuned E-A-D-G and playing the E and A or the D and G together should sound harmonious. That’s because E is the fifth of the key of A and D is the fifth of the key of G. They sound really, really good together.
This combination of 1 – 5 shows up in all kinds of music from Gregorian chants to rock and roll power chords. Additional notes cans be used to fill out the chord but that 1 – 5 often is the foundation for something that sounds good.
I try really hard at guitar camp not to think about plastic surgery but while tuning up my bass yesterday, I was thinking how important harmony is in the human shape and face.
When I’m evaluating a patient for body, breast or facial surgery, I am always looking at how all the parts fit together or should fit together. Sometimes a patient (and sometimes the plastic surgeon) is so focused on a body area or facial feature, he/she does not appreciate how important it is for everything to harmonize, just like a Gregorian chant or a power chord.
Thanks for reading! Dr. Lisa Lynn Sowder