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I was playing melodies which I cannot re-create but I did employ a chordal interlude: F7 rooted on the 5th C+ rooted on the 3rd, but...

If you want less tension, try concert strings and not baritone strings as previously advised. Just make sure the concert strings are...

I agree that markers are a bit decorative, and on my custom ukes I insist on the decorative pattern of a side dot on all the pentatonic...

The camel wore a nightie.

okay, now it is actually time for bed. Beethoven hasn't copyrighted A, B, and C, so I could argue I am not plagiarizing him but then I...

I have to go take my pre-work nap, but I quickly wanted to annotate what I was doing. Capitalizing on my recent success with A, I...

In Greek they use the word areté which roughly means excellent. The idea is to be excellent. In practical terms that means to have a...

I have been rather satisfied with my perambulations through the modes of E Double Harmonic Δ. Primarily because I was able, though by...

first of all, you probably shouldn't get a custom at the incipient stage of your musical journey. Not because of all that rigamarole...

By including the enharmonic keys

Like a 25 year old, I enjoyed a pyrrhic victory over my wife. I was right, but sometimes, you can be right and still be wrong. Even...

techniically, there are 3 dim7 chords--all the same shape--but varying in position. The dim7 is a quadrilateral; just make sure one of...

to hide the cracks in my melodies I tend to engage in a few practices. Just to name a few: a glissando, using a dim7 to shake things...

I was forcing myself to play some modes which were rather uncomfortable. I don't primarily mean physically uncomfortable although there...

I always play in E. Why? Because it is fairly far away from C and that placates my contrarian need. Because I can. When I was...