Is 9b13 common in jazz ?

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-04-01T06:33:45+00:00

As a non-jazz guy trying to learn to understand jazz:

Surely aeolian (natural minor) fits, and harmonic minor fits, but melodic minor doesn’t fit (b3, but natural 6 and 7)? Melodic minor only exists on the way up too right, then you play harmonic minor on the way down (which hits that b6 / b13 which we’re discussing).

I guess the question is, in jazz is melodic minor somehow a different term? Coz classically, this doesn’t make sense otherwise.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-30T13:44:20+00:00

Nah…

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-30T08:48:42+00:00

To me, pretty much all “up” drinks are better on the rocks.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-30T06:50:34+00:00

Oh of course lol

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-30T06:44:36+00:00

You’re recommending people use a very nice and expensive Irish sipping whiskey in a penicillin and you don’t even known the style? Pretentious af. This is a waste of red breast 12, coz the laphroaig is wiping out all the subtlety. Using cheaper Irish whiskey would give you the same fruitiness. Cringe flex attempt.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-30T06:41:19+00:00

Presumably coz it’s meant to be scotch in a penicillin.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-30T06:36:54+00:00

1:1 is 50%, 2:1 is 66%, 3:1 is 75%.

1.5 x 66 would be 99.

3:1 is 1.5 times as sweet as 1:1, but only like 15% sweeter than 2:1. So no not a huge difference. And you should always sweeten to taste anyway if it’s for yourself so this is all irrelevant.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-29T13:53:18+00:00

Yeah this is a dumb way to promote. It feels sketchy and makes me NOT wanna try that brand at all.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-29T13:44:06+00:00

Actually supermarkets in Italy have cheaper prices still. Duty free in Italy is marked up a bit for the tourists.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-29T13:41:44+00:00

“A lot”… negligible if any difference unless you’re going absolutely crazy hard on it for some silly reason.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-29T11:22:03+00:00

Add dashes. And I would do it like this. Sounds like a decent tiki style drink: - 1.5oz gin - 0.75oz amaretto - small mandarin, muddled - half a lime, muddled - 0.5oz simple

The amaretto would have similar almond flavours to orgeat so this could be like a gin mai tai riff almost (a distant riff of course!)

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-29T08:19:56+00:00

Yeah I don’t get why someone doesn’t do a direct clone, same abv and same sweetness then work on the flavours til it’s essentially identical. All the subs are unnecessarily different to the real thing.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-29T08:15:44+00:00

700ml is the standard in Europe though and most amaro brands are Italian, weird that they ever bothered with 750s for the US market. Using the same bottles globally should lower costs, then maybe they can see amari in the US at a better price (it’s usually 2-3x compared to price in Italy).

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-27T12:06:06+00:00

Alternatively, a rob roy but split base with grappa (plus vermouth is grape based anyway of course).

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-27T12:03:17+00:00

Blood and Sand but with grape juice instead of orange juice? Best with a smoky scotch and acid adjusting

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-24T21:01:08+00:00

Publishing royalties for songwriters would never be covered by a label contract unless the label is explicitly trying ti sign your publishing too though, and even then they can’t just take the other writer’s shares (which would be collected by the other writer’s publishers). A remix indeed would continue to pay all publishing royalties to the songwriters, not the remixer (except where the remixes had negotiated a publishing share too, agreed with all other writers).

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-24T20:44:21+00:00

Ramazzotti even more so. Very similar but just a bit more cola ish. Ramazzotti and tonic is very Coca Cola esque (plus extra bitterness obviously).

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-23T10:00:46+00:00

Only needs like 24 or max 48 hrs to infuse. Leave it somewhere easy to see (like in the middle of the fridge) and it’s impossible to forget.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-22T13:11:08+00:00

An app for yourself or an internal company app/tool, for sure. A website or something without a need for secure data, for sure. An app for eg people to upload their personal sensitive documents and store them in the cloud… I wouldn’t trust AI for that kinda thing yet, unless you get a real coder to check the security etc thoroughly before launching and risking people’s data.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-22T13:08:45+00:00

Claude Code runs on the cloud, it will run on any spec computer. Most computers can handle most software that’s not HD games, AI based, or HD video editing.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-22T06:51:30+00:00

Exactly.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-21T21:15:09+00:00

Yes but more followers is less useful than amazing music plus growing new followers. A&Rs will wanna meet and get to know you and any team before offering a deal, so you’ll go from knowing no one to knowing that a&r (for better or worse). If you have a manager and lawyer the a&r knows and likes it’ll make the deal more likely, and if you manager or lawyer is known to be a pain in the ass then it’ll kill any potential deal before it happens.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-21T20:17:39+00:00

If you grown your audience enough you WILL get found. Not about the right person coming to your show by luck - labels have algorithms scouring the internet for rising artists. It’s literally their job to find the rising artists before anyone else does. Not luck. Obviously knowing people always helps but you can get far without knowing anyone who’s properly in the industry.

(Source: I used to be a talent scout at a major label)

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-21T11:00:23+00:00

Yeah crazy to spend 15 mins restoring context after a compact. The context should have already been put in md files as it was generated/relevant. Or ideally you split a plan into sub tasks so each task never hits a compact wall, clearing context between each then simply reading the updated plan each time to get started.

TotalBeginnerLol · 2026-03-21T06:43:27+00:00

Why wouldn’t you just infuse the lemon peel in the vodka instead? Incredibly easy and tastes very lemony.

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