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I think you're trying to oversimplify this and make it objective when it's largely subjective. There's no single answer - it all depends on several...

I don't give a rodent's rectum what you think about me. I am smarter, better informed and more successful in every metric than you will ever be. ...

I'm excited for the tariffs and mass deportations. No more running roughshod over the US.

Thanks to nevershouldhavesoldit and sgosnell. Compare this: With:

I'll take G, C, D7 and feel good about myself for $100, Alex.

You will if you're wealthy, the billionaires standing behind him at his inaugural address will be his main beneficiaries. His proposed actions...

Good thing you're not a librarian.

They're all gorgeous. A couple of brunettes and blondes--what's not to like? I'll have a couple of each!

Maybe, if you understood the underlying scale/harmonic theory - in which case you probably wouldn't need the app. :smile-new: Then again, as we...

If archtops are so low in popularity why are virtually every luthier making archtops ive talked to booked out months if not years? If theyre to...

Okay … one might even recommend using the app to correct that deficit?

Absolutely, but everyone doubts their own ability to some extent. Wes, for example, constantly doubted his, possibly because he was self-taught....

C Major or C melodic minor, but it just spells out a G11 chord (G-B-D-F-A-C). Maybe I'm just saying that needing an app for it (whatever "it" is)...

Youll want to go into the settings to limit the number of chords that it’s using … the default setting is ……… ………. challenging

Alright I’ll give it a shot

Thank god I've only got an old acoustic :-)

I've heard these called many different things. Triad pairs and hexatonics are pretty common. Charlie Banacos used to call them "double mambos" or...

Yeah I’ve had it for a while. Jordan K had told me about it because Stefon was working on it when he was studying with him. And I was like cool … but...

Are you? Hearing harmony is a weak spot for me.

It sounds like you’re talking about being able to play diatonic triads, but playing triad pairs is developing vocabulary from overlapping inversions...

This just sounds like an argument against superficial scale knowledge. To me, knowing the C Major scale, or any other scale, means knowing, and...

That black Ibanez GB10 BK is gorgeous! From the photo it appeared to have a deeper body, but after checking its specs, that is only an illusion....

I hate to bring up the subject of money but we're never going to see a penny of Trump's cost saving proposals for anything.

You've pinpointed a knowledge gap, technical and/or hearing-wise, which prevents you from being as competent at playing single note lines as playing...

Triad pairs are not really chord-over-chord though, I don't think ... more a modal way of getting around. And honestly I think these are actually...

It's kind of the default tho Notice how in this Kurt Rosenwinkel chart, Phrygian is specified in the chord symbols. Obv. the progression is not...

Anything and everything is good enough to post on this forum, with caveats or without. Everyone should be encouraged to post their videos,...

That was my point, m7b13 does not represent a single scale/mode, it occurs in other scales. As I said, if one knows a scale, one knows what...

Same here. I can pretty much create a chord-melody arrangement of a standard on the first or second try. That, of course, is what pianists always...

Thanks! Let me know if you do, I’m curious to hear your thoughts.

Oh gawd I couldn't take more than 10 seconds of this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVIIdkekjE I think burritos cost $50 at these group...

If it’s not good enough to post, don’t post it. Otherwise, it’s good enough.

I think this is pretty cool. I would use it.

Not to toot my own horn, but I am at the stage where I can "compose" a chord melody arrangement on the fly, at least as long as the tune isn't too...

Hey Allan - I really liked the tune, and your solo shows a great deal of progress compared with earlier things you've shared. I agree with others...

"Even if you try different voicings when composing a chord melody, it's VERY easy to get "married" to an arrangement." I agree, and I think this...

It's laced into everything.

Saw this the other day lol. https://youtu.be/2sxKJeYSBmI?si=PVseA_oW_u838_Oz

Have you been on the internet?

Yeah, of course. I mean I read Godel, Esher, Bach years and years ago, and no-one has done it better since.

Even if you try different voicings when composing a chord melody, it's VERY easy to get "married" to an arrangement. I lied to myself for years about...

When you compose a chord melody, do you try different chord voicings in various positions? If not, that's probably part of the reason you find it...

Up!!!

I suspect that some mathematico-theoreticalists are drawn to Bach because of his use of various schemas--mirror fugues, inverted lines, and...

But, I prefer the truth. :highly_amused:

There are other ways of wiring guitars. I like this one, because it minimizes changes in tone as the volume is changed. I can't get the forum to...

My Advice, don't tell us you did it badly, this puts a negative aura on the clip before anyone even watches it.

I'm finding it challenging to take tunes I have always done as chord-melody, literally from the first read-down of the page, and play the bare...

I appreciate the effort, but that might as well be greek to me. I've read it three times and my head is spinning. I just don't get this part of...

Thanks for posting that interview with Jonathan. (I'll have to look for those transcriptions he mentions by Gary Hanson of CC solos.) I view Jonathan...

Well Done! Performance is the final measure of progress, and you are advancing decisively.

Depending on how the pots are wired, the fattest tone may not be with either pot wide open. There are 3 common ways to wire guitar pots: With...

Mick, As a kid in SoCal, we used to occasionally catch the local variety of king snake in the foothills above the pacific….really beautiful...

Cool idea, get an android version out there please.

This is THE book for me! David Valdez wrote an excellent blog article about it. He also references Gary Campbell's book, highly recommended as well....

I don't know about 'retired', but he reportedly did stop building for awhile. I'm not privy to the cause. I haven't tried to keep up over the past...

I seem to remember the old timers telling me that Leo Fender shipped his guitars with 12 gauge flatwounds in the pre-CBS Era. Those 12's were the...

Could you kindly test if the Hofner Violin style 6 string guitar is neck heavy? Many thanks. :encouragement::encouragement:

Someone needs to tell Jerry that "hexatonics" aren't real.

That Scofield is odd. Rosewood board, and output jack on the face? I believe this is a new Chinese (JSM10) variant. The guitar on the left, is...

Maybe, this is a good book to start the 'Hexatonics' journey:

It ain't my problem. Weak people do drugs like fentanyl. When they perish, it is an example of survival of the fittest. If our government wants to...

Yes, last week, I played (badly) 'Just Friends' live at Trefor Owen's Jazz Guitar Club, I think that I need a few months of playing the song to get...

Looking good but I would've had one or two less frets and pushed the CC pickup further up. I'd also use an all wood bridge and skip the t.o.m. I...

What does this have to do with anything?

As it happens, I run up melodic minor scales quite frequently because they resolve neatly to the I usually. But no one cares because it sounds ...

My guitar came with non-original pots, I might have the other kind. The gear page kind of pots, lol.

Its that stupid logarithmic taper that makes it weird

Yeah, I try to get it sounding rich and fat at wide open, then go back from there. That's the plan anyway.

My dude just saying words about stuff.

I'm not alone. Zucker thought so immediately. So did I, as it happens, because I know something about hexatonic scales. Triads can be combined to...

I think the idea was that $500 "bonus" tempted him out of retirement.

A lot of these debates boil down to whether we should be copying Kurt Rosenwinkel or Wes Montgomery, with the former apparently counts as being more...

Nah I just think you’re being super annoying and pedantic about the name of this dudes app when it makes perfect sense for what he’s trying to convey.

Elmer Snowden, the banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader whose career began in the 1920's(or before?): there are a pair of 1960 albums, headlined by...

I use pedals but don’t mess with them. Just volume knob.

Radio 3 in Concert - Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra - BBC Sounds Mark-Anthony Turnage's concerto begins about 31 minutes into the...

I know, it must be very frustrating. Time to stop messing up HexatonicsApp's thread.

I don’t know anyone who can be as wrong and as pedantic as you at the same time

Ah, I see you've had an epiphany. At last. Bless you, my son. Probably time for your tea and biscuits now.

The Epiphone in that Seeger scene, from 'A Complete Unknown' is a postwar Triumph.

'How To Stop Running Up And Down Scales And Start Creating Music' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWbTdkcvY8w

Oh lord. I suppose I could go back through your 9,000 posts or whatever and make sure that you always tell people that they have to know their...

Guitar String Composition and Swing Guitar — Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander

Maybe, but I don't care. What they do is what they do. Okay, I can see I'll have to talk very slowly... You've heard of people being...

Here's one. If you go to about 8.15 you'll see him just turn the volume down. I suspect he's already set the volume and tone for solo-mode and then...

Up and open for trades, need a good fingerpicking flat top but anything cool let me know

Up. Trades open to ESs teles something cool but more electric. Let me know

This bears essentially no resemblance to how jazz musicians (and most other musicians) talk about and use scales. When you’re using a scale,...

Fentanyl is a weapon, not a drug. Good luck with the cartels. It's on you now.

Well, it was fairly intriguing. Personally, I don't use a lot of triads per se because I use other ways of getting the same results. Nor do I use...

Yes please

Gould is perhaps the most jazz of classical pianists. His identity dominates the music sometimes. Andras Schiff is good if you want someone more...

Thanks so much for checking out the video—I really appreciate it! I was hoping the title might serve as a signpost for musicians and composers...

When jazz musicians say 'scale' they often mean 'pitch set.'

The chord variations in the app are intentionally organized around one or two specific scales for clarity. For example, I’ve used min7(b13) to...

There is very much a cult of Bach isn't there? It's not like the nerds spend all this time mathematically analysing Mozart or Schubert. I think it...

Me too

It can work either way.

I find that with 8th-y lines with lots of enclosures, if you play them as triplets, sometimes chord tones lay on downbeats and sometimes not,...

Welcome to Loonyville.

It's very simple...you just play much louder when it's the solo of your life.:smile-new: You can use a simple guitar booster effect.

I wish the mathematicians would leave Bach alone.

Yes, it is fortunate that frets.com is still available.

I'm sure Ibanez is more aware of the market trends than me, but purely aesthetic I miss the double cutaway PM models. GB looking sharp in black

Yes, coming from a family of ten pro photographers in four generations (guess who's the rotten apple), I'm aware of the resurrection of film...

Oh, I know that one pretty well! I'm all over every little note after I've played a solo. A week later I don't notice a thing unless it's seriously...

I have a book written by Walt Weiskopf "Intervalic Improvisation" - he wrote it about 30 years ago. I recommend it.:smile-new:

An under the radar player but not among those who know. I never heard of him until his Criss Cross recordings started coming out in the late 80s...

Actually, I don't think the term is open to interpretation. 'Putting a spin on it' may be fun but no good if you're trying to accurately convey ...

Don't know about the PM200, but, when it comes to discontinuing guitars, we're the pros! Then we make a few, just so we can discontinue them.

The black GB is a novelty... never seen one before... cool! Have they stopped making the PM200 (that's the PM model I like the best).

I used to catch king snakes when I was a kid (kept them for a day and then released them), never saw any remotely like that one out in the field...

Frankly, I don't see the see the point of this. If one knows a scale, one will know what triads/chords can be built from it, and all of the triads...

The midi file .. I have a remastered CD of Glen Gould playing the Goldberg Variations..I have heard other people play them..perhaps it was the...

King Snake is the brand name. They are made in Terada, apparently built in small campaigns and have distributors only in the EU and Asia.