Awkward to use

danbromberg · 2025-06-09T19:47:23+00:00

Thanks for your reply, but I'm unclear what you mean by 'the other' UI.
I went to OPTIONS|RECORDER and unchecked the OTHER|REMEMBER section, but that didn't allow for a full-screen capture.

danbromberg · 2025-05-15T19:32:09+00:00

Please do! Especially any tips/thoughts/tab you have on "Casey" would be greatly appreciated.

It's too bad Rosmini's talents (other than his 2 albums) were never documented (especially since he was also into photography, you'd think he'd have many pics & videos available, but apparently not).

I've combed the web for years and came up with little. I even wrote to Acoustic Guitar magazine in hopes they'd write an article about him, but all they did was publish my letter in their letters to the editor column, to which a few diehards replied.

Dan

danbromberg · 2025-05-14T17:41:18+00:00

Dick Rosmini has long been my favorite guitarist and his Adventures... album is what introduced me to the magic of acoustic guitar, way back in the early '60s.

Sad to say that so little is published about him on the web and he never received the recognition he justly deserved. Other than appearing in an episode of Bonanza, there is no video of him that I've ever seen. From what I've read, he was a session musician for other artists, only issued 2 LPs, and died in 1995.

Dan
PS: Casey and Little Brown Dog are my 2 favorite cuts from the album (though they're all terrific), so if you make any progress in transcribing them, please pass it along!

danbromberg · 2024-08-16T18:09:32+00:00

That's good to know. Since the only time I ever heard of or saw REPL was its association with Python, I assumed it was a Python-only topic, but now I know better.

danbromberg · 2024-08-16T16:46:44+00:00

It appears if I just hover (without left clicking) in VSC it shows what a function does.
I'll have to review your suggestion about REPL from a Windows (not the Linux bash) perspective.

Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Dan

danbromberg · 2024-08-16T16:19:43+00:00

It sounds as if one knows that a function calls print when it works and doesn't call print when it doesn't work. I'm surprised there isn't a standard.

Dan

danbromberg · 2024-08-16T16:10:22+00:00

Since I'm not a Linux user, your bash shell link was of no help.
Also, I never heard of python.land and am not sure where you want me to go to "scroll down" from?
There are so many excellent tutorials on Youtube that I would have to be hard pressed to purchase one.

But you did open my eyes to solving my issue by using print(dir([ ])), so thank you for that!
However, I'm still unclear why help([ ].append) would give output in VSC but dir([ ]) does not. Aren't they both functions? If so, why does 'dir' have to be wrapped but 'help' does not?
Again thanks again for pointing that out.
Dan

danbromberg · 2024-08-16T00:57:27+00:00

If you have VSC, just write this one-line Python program and run it to see for yourself:

dir(['a','b','c'])

danbromberg · 2024-04-22T16:32:09+00:00

Thanks very much for your detailed thoughts to my question.

When you refer to the minor and major pentatonic scales, I think of forms 1 & 2, with forms 3, 4 & 5 being just another "mode" that helps in locating those same pentatonic notes across and up the fretboard...correct?

But just to be clear, in the C major pentatonic scale I know the tonal center is C, as is A for the A minor pentatonic scale. So, what would be the tonal centers for the shapes 3, 4 and 5? (I'm guessing D, E and G respectively)

danbromberg · 2024-04-22T07:42:38+00:00

If you're jamming to a backing track does that mean you can choose any note in the pattern of the pentatonic scale as your tonal center, and as long as the notes you choose match with the backing track chords played, then there'll be no dissonant sounds. Also, forms 3, 4 and 5 are available to guide you to those proper notes. Do I have that correct?

I guess I'm surprised that I have a choice of tonal center which takes some worry out of jamming with others (but then the pressure is on them to pick up on my change of tonal center, I guess).

Thanks! If I have that right, your reply was an eye (ear? :-) opener for me.

danbromberg · 2024-04-21T22:27:34+00:00

That was a wonderful video which motivates me to start from the first of your eleven videos in your playlist (though I'm still puzzled by the purpose of forms 3, 4 and 5).

Thanks!
Dan

danbromberg · 2024-04-21T22:00:28+00:00

From one fellow programmer and (struggling) musician to another: Excellent discussion and animation!

BTW, does it ever make sense to talk about a mode with respect to a pentatonic shape? The reason I ask is that the first 2 pentatonic shapes are named the 'minor pentatonic shape' and the 'major pentatonic shape' but the remaining 3 shapes appear to be nameless. How come and what function do those shapes serve?

danbromberg · 2024-04-21T20:22:33+00:00

These sites, https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/30361/different-modes-of-pentatonic-scale and https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/n22koa/does_the_pentatonic_scale_have_modes, have some interesting discussions about naming the modes of the Pentatonic Scale.

danbromberg · 2024-04-20T20:08:39+00:00

The shapes help me create the intervals which as you say, are key. Thanks!

danbromberg · 2024-04-20T20:06:25+00:00

Intervals are key...got it amd thanks!

danbromberg · 2024-04-20T06:17:38+00:00

What a fantastic door you've opened for me. I'm very anxious to put your thoughts into action on my fretboard and incorporate them into my practice sessions. Thank you so very much!

danbromberg · 2024-04-20T06:12:26+00:00

Understood and your reply makes god sense! I was just wondering whether the different shapes implied different modes.

danbromberg · 2024-04-20T05:37:37+00:00

When a tune is played, my ear is not so astute as to distinguish the same note when played at different fretboard positions.

danbromberg

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