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Jerome,
Shouldn't the triads for E major be....
E F#m G#m A B C#m D#dim ?
since there are 4 #'s in Emaj.
Indeed! Good catch.
The good news is that no one but wierd jazz dudes play the 7th, anyway. 
There is no law that says you can't have more than one guitar. In fact, I'm of the opinion that you aught to have more than one guitar.
Play what you got!
I SCUBA dive, ride mountain bikes (I have 8 frames in my garage), golf, and play in the band.
It's busy being me.
Zurf "making it up" is kind of like playing a bad note in a solo if you repeat the note people will think you intended to play it that way (some of them)
One of the great things about playing bad notes on the guitar is that you're only ever one fret away from a good one.
One of the biggest drawbacks of chords and tabs is there is no way to impart rhythm.
all the answers here look rights whichs does shows that in music theory there are lots of different ways of looking at the same subject.
I will add one other observation. each of the common scales has 8 notes so G has G A B C D E F# G. In some cases it might be appropriate to call the last three notes E Gb G. However that would be quite confusing because there are then two Gs and no Fs in the scale. Infact this doesn't happen in the any of the commonly used scales.
Whether it happens in any of the variations or modes I don't know for sure but I doubt it.
That is why you have two sets of keys, flats and sharps. In no scale do you find a lack of notes. Every scale has an A, B, C, D, E, F and G in it. They may be sharp or flat, but they always contain just one of each.
We have Humptulips, and I'm from Enumclaw.
Jerome
I have an interesting book by Rikky Rooksby called "How to write song on Guitar." it has a extensive guide to chord progressions and chord changes with detailed descriptions of each and a big library of examples. its been a big help in writing songs. you seem very knowledgeable on the subject and I wondered whether you had read it.
So this arrived yesterday, and while I didn't have a whole lot of time to jump into detail with it, I did give it a quick skim before bed. I think I'm going to enjoy going over it. The author seems to take the same veiw of song writing and theory that I do.
Every member of our band sings, and all of us except the drummer do so solo at some point in our sets. I believe that it's all about confidence, but our drummer has been taking some vocal coaching lately, and it's really made a difference in how he sounds. Much more resonant and confident.
thanks for the messages of support guys.my wife keeps laughing at me as my guitar is on a stand in the living room,and when i'm watching a movie or tv programme she keeps catching me looking at it ,fingers twitching haha.seriously-i can't keep my hands off it.my fingertips are sore as hell right now but the pain seems to go away when i'm playing.getting a few chords nailed now which seemed an incredible task 2 days ago! i'm loving it.:)
That is exactly the best way to do it. Keep it out and accessible. You'll play it more that way.
All your favorite three chord ditties in C A G E or D.
You've got GAS. Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
It has no cure.
nascar is stockcar racing?
really? I never knew that.
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing = NASCAR.
It's roots were based in stockcar racing, but you'd be hard pressed to call a modern NASCAR machine "stock." It's origins go back to prohibition, when guys would build the fastest car they could to out run the local authorities when they were moving liquor. After the end of prohibition, they were still liking their cars, and just started to race them for fun.
I still don't see the appeal of NASCAR, though. The cars aren't interesting, and the racing is boring. F-1 Racing is boring, too, but at least they turn right, and the cars are phenomenal pieces of engineering.
Jerome
I have an interesting book by Rikky Rooksby called "How to write song on Guitar." it has a extensive guide to chord progressions and chord changes with detailed descriptions of each and a big library of examples. its been a big help in writing songs. you seem very knowledgeable on the subject and I wondered whether you had read it.
I haven't read it, but I just ordered it on Amazon.
When I write songs, I tend to go holistically. That is, I get a bit of a lyric or a line, and then it grows from there. It may take months for the whole thing to gestate, but when it's done, I'll sit down and write the whole thing down in an hour.
I do tend to be heavily theory oriented when I write. I like to keep things "in key" because it keeps things simple, and I never have to guess as to what the next chord or note should be, or if it will sound "right."
Practice. Every day. No exceptions.
Then when you're sick of practice. Practice some more.
I love hockey, but I can't watch it on TV. It's simply too fast, and the television removes a lot of the ice, where the players are setting up to score. It's like a super fast moving football game.
Well, diminished chords are weird. If you consider the inversions, there is really only four of them. I sat through a workshop with a bunch of freaky jazz guys once and they spent a lot of time on it. They'd break out some crazy stuff, and noodle all day, because the scale simple doesn't resolve anywhere.
It's just bizzare, but when it's done right, I like it.
I'm with Doug. Mics are where its at, followed by the guy running the board.
as to the Vii note, theres no chord which can be constructed on the vii note. some people use a dimished chord.
For th VII, a triad will produce a diminished chord, which is why people play it. If you play a 7 over it, it would be a M7b5.
Those chords are built the same as any other chord. Take the I III and V of the modal scale for that position, and that's your chord. For the VII, that's the Locrian scale. For the ii, that's Dorian. For the iii, that's Phrygian. For the vii, it's Aeolian, or natural minor.
Tried to watch baseball once, but couldn't stand all the close-ups of players spitting. What's all that about? It's just not cricket, old boy!
That is correct. It is not cricket. Baseball has rules that make sense.
Cricket was once described to me as seven straight days of drinking. And while I can appreciate that, it doesn't make the game any more understandable.
For the record, baseball is the greatest game ever invented.
But football is a real close second.
I absolutely do not get NASCAR at all. I *love* MotoGP, F1, and World Rally Car, etc... but NASCAR is 50 year old push rod motors turning left all day long. The racing is boring (check MotoGP and WSB for great racing). The cars are uninteresting (Check F1 for cars that make you all excited) , and the track layouts are lame (Laguna Seca would eat a NASCAR driver). I have tried several times to figure out what the appeal is, and I simply do not get it.
But, for the record, I'll misquote Hemingway, and state that there are only three sports; motor racing, boxing, and baseball.
I think right now is the best time to encourage her to experiment. She may not like the violin, and she might find she likes something else a whole lot better. She may find herself playing all of them. She may find herself saying "This is not my beautiful house..."
Oh wait....
After reading this
Well, I wasn't ever really that interested in playing the bass. I only learned it because that was the only way that the band I was in would let me play with them. And even then they wanted me to play bass exactly like the band leader did (Which is impossible). Anytime I picked up a guitar or brought my own, the band leader would get huffy.
And this
Nobody here wants to play what I want to play (folk and modern style country) in fact I asked my friend Mark who told me we may aswell start a Gary Glitter tribute band as that is how popular we would be! He, like the rest of my friends is into the heavy stuff and I knew I was clutching at straws when I asked!
I'm going to offer up some of Jerome's Patented Unsolicited Advice(tm)
Don't play with people who want to have some kind of "role" in a band. Find people that want to be musicians, rather than a guitar player, and you will have much more fun.
I play bass in my band for the same reason everyone does. No one else wanted to. But if I pick up a guitar for a set (and I do), someone else is happy to play bass. We're constantly looking for reasons to bring in another instrument. Right now, we're looking for a mandolin or a dobro, but if we brought in a slide whistle or a bag pipe, we'd try to find some way to make it work.
Variety is the spice of life.
I can't play guitar and at 65 I think I'm now to old to learn.
I would respectfully disagree.
Never to old to start!
jerome.oneil wrote:And I've not even started drinking yet!
What's keeping you? It's already late Friday morning where you are.
- Zurf
Well, I work for an Irish company, and it's Good Friday. So I have to wait until noon.
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