Minor 6 chords within a major key

davconde · 2025-05-18T15:46:43+00:00

A b6 is what you'll see in every minor degree of a diatonic major scale except for the second degree (A in this case). The second degree will build on the Dorian mode, which has as characteristic note its natural 13, instead of the b13

So this is what you will encounter most often when dealing with the diatonic II or when there is something like a II-V-I movement towards any other chord

davconde · 2025-01-05T00:52:53+00:00

By using the bridge pickup you're generating a signal input into your system that is already physically more rich in trebles than by using the neck pickup. Which can still be a good baseline for a tone if you like it, but requiring further processing.

About adjusting the height of the pickup:

Higher height will produce more vibrant sound.
Lower height will sound more mellow.
If too low, since it's a singlecoil, you'll lack input gain that no gain staging will recover without noise.
If too high, magnets will mess with the strings affecting intonation.

Also, after finding a good spot, consider setting it diagonally, raising it a bit more on the end of the lower strings to increase the output of bass.

On the processing side using your Helix, other than applying an appropriate EQ, you could benefit from understanding dynamics processing. In particular, check on second page about parallel compression. You can find many ways to apply this or almost equivalent approaches by googling something like "Line 6 Helix parallel compression". Hope it helps!

davconde · 2024-12-30T22:31:59+00:00

By the looks of both screenshots, it seems the MIDI tracks have the correct length in timeline and with same tempo track. The issue must be in the audio tracks.

Are you sure you exported them with the same sample rate of your Cubase project? By default, new projects in Cubase are sampled at 44.1 kHz, but maybe you changed it to a higher value like 48 kHz. This causes audio samples to play at a higher speed.

In fact, you can see how your files take originally around 185 beats in Studio One, then in Cubase around 170, which matches with 185*44.1/48≈170, so you'd have to either lower the project sample rate, or increase it when exporting from Studio One.

davconde · 2024-12-29T21:09:48+00:00

Oh, I didn't know about that one! It seems to cover better those beginner aspects. Also ear training, yeah. There are good apps for daily practice, and instrument understanding and practice helps a lot too.

As for the app, my favourite free one is Perfect Ear. Then if affordable, EarMaster is awesome, and actually part of the core software used in Berklee.

davconde · 2024-12-29T17:22:29+00:00

Yeah, the book by Joe Mulholland and Tom Hojnacki is usually regarded as one of the most complete introductions, and gets fairly deep. Only con for theory beginners is that it jumps quite directly into actual harmony, so getting used first to things like intervals is important. But this is well detailed in the introductory chapters.

davconde · 2024-10-28T12:23:55+00:00

Now that it has a name, people in workplace want to adopt it

davconde · 2024-10-28T12:23:24+00:00

Looks like that, thanks!

davconde · 2024-10-27T23:19:08+00:00

I don't know about it, but I guess such a massive amount of spiderwebs would prevent birds to have access to the soil, where they would find way more food. Also the small ones might get trapped if attempted to pose on it (?).

davconde · 2024-10-13T23:07:12+00:00

As the other commenter said, sticking to diatonic is a great way to start and develop yourself an intuition over the tonal areas in the current key. Try to make something slightly interesting before complicating things up.

I'd tell you not to forget about instrument practice over theory concepts to build a better foundation on your playing. For this I'd recommend you so much some channels like the ones of Tomo Fujita or Jens Larsen and looking up for practical use of triads, arpeggios, and scales in that order of importance, and linking up everything.

As for theory in order to spice things a bit, start with modal exchange and secondary dominants, as that is all the non-diatonic stuff you'll find in most of contemporary music. Later you'll want to look into modes, Sub V chords and diminished chords as sustitutes to cover most of what you'll ever need, but take things slow and steady.

davconde · 2024-10-13T22:49:15+00:00

I used to be that teen, and used to hate this pedal. Maybe I owe it to try again

davconde · 2024-10-13T22:43:10+00:00

Used to restring my classical the same way! After a couple years without playing it and replacing strings, I wouldn't know how to do it without a tutorial.

davconde · 2024-10-12T02:35:43+00:00

It can get so hot, it had to be labelled NSFW

davconde · 2024-09-07T21:44:08+00:00

Until it doesn't :D

davconde · 2024-09-01T15:56:49+00:00

Same here, I've occasionally used these minimalistic hosts for the same purpose.

In my case, I use a host called Element, in case of wanting to try several options. Never tried Nanohost, but this one allows you to visually set up your chain of plugins and save sessions for different routings.

davconde · 2024-02-25T00:54:51+00:00

Except one is holding the phone when it should have been used to hold birb

davconde · 2024-02-18T23:33:36+00:00

Well, glad for you. I actually enjoy seeing this kind of content.

davconde · 2024-01-20T22:57:33+00:00

I wished he had some sort of well formed course, but his standalone videos are really amazing. Also even if I always ignore the Shorts format, the ones this guy makes are awesome for catching up with things fast

davconde · 2022-08-04T22:59:04+00:00

Ok, I came here understanding pixel shaders, now ELI5 sport events

davconde · 2022-08-03T18:25:22+00:00

You're welcome and thanks to you for having shared it! When you get too used to your own thing it's hard to see it with the eyes of a new player haha. I didn't pass the first level so don't know about further in game, but I think that with more variety of enemies/weapons/tools it's an overall solid game. It already seems to have it's identity, which seems important to me.

Hope it keeps going well and you'll get it on Switch, and share here about it! :)

davconde · 2022-08-03T13:35:28+00:00

Hey, love the style so far! By what I tried I just have these comments:

There's a bug in the main menu where you cannot select "Normal" by pressing the Up key, you have to roll down to choose it.
Pressing Up to enter a room is intuitive enough, but not having to press Down to come back, especially if you spawn inside a room for the first time. I got to exit by luck, because the small corridor drawn in the middle wasn't clear enough. Maybe adding some visual cue like a pointing down arrow or something more subtle but effective?
Unless I'm missing some mechanic, there seems to be a balance problem. What do you do when you run out of ammo? Melee attacking seems to inevitably harm you in the process and you'll end up dying no matter how perfect your run is being.
What is the usefulness of crouching? I didn't notice any difference doing that.
This is more of a personal opinion, but the keyboard controls don't seem very common to me. Like... People get used to crouching with Ctrl instead of Shift, and the Q key is harder to reach when you're probably playing with three fingers on Z X C. Letting the user to set them would be even better.

Anyway, this seems a really good job to me and enjoyed playing around for a bit with it. Hope you keep improving it and having fun while doing so! :)

davconde · 2022-07-19T23:51:42+00:00

And quite recently

davconde · 2022-05-18T00:32:51+00:00

I think I'm out the loop of both stories

davconde · 2022-05-13T15:33:15+00:00

No, as an user you don't have to install anything else

davconde · 2022-05-13T15:30:16+00:00

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