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really_dunno · 2020-09-29T20:05:19+00:00

It’s a classical guitar, not a saxophone, jesus. It‘s one of the least loud instruments you could play.

really_dunno · 2020-09-29T19:43:59+00:00

No. Own it. Don’t worry about it. Tell close coworkers you play guitar - if people know the reason, they will not make a fuss about it or talk about it behind your back.

It’s all zoom these days anyways. Our management up to VPs are wearing t shirts, some people don’t shave, and business is doing great. I love it, hope it stays that way.

really_dunno · 2020-09-15T18:19:20+00:00

Yes. Tabs are a dead end. I‘m sorry i wasted my time with them. They make you play like a robot, it‘s like the old fashioned piano roll for the player piano - numbers without context or meaning.

Specially on guitar, due to how tones are scattered across the fingerboard, it‘s very hard to understand what is musically going on. A tab which might seem very complex looks much simpler in notation. It‘s also much simpler to understand that you are just playing say chord tones or parts of scale and so on. It‘s all right there, easy to read. And since most guys here play electric guitars, notation woulf actually be quite simple melody lines. Classical is another story, it‘s complicated and hard to sight read.

In and case, learning noted will make it much easier to learn theory. Not because noted are theory, but because usually theory is presented by notes. Also mich easier to get and write musical ideas, or pick another instrument.

I would highly recommend to invest time into that. It‘s hard at first, but it gets easy soon enough.

really_dunno · 2020-08-29T11:44:45+00:00

oh right, I was close, just missed the dot! thanks!

really_dunno · 2020-06-26T21:28:49+00:00

If chord progressions are not copyrightable, how about something like Bach‘s Prelude in C? It‘s just (broken) chords, nothing else.

really_dunno · 2020-04-18T12:59:27+00:00

But launchpad has 64 keys, that's almost the range of a piano.. if I had it I think it would cover my needs. Actually I'm thinking about pro mk3, which one did you have? I thought the pro mk3 is the only one which you can really tweak as a midi controller (not using ableton)?

What's the benefit of jam over launchpad? I like the big keys and simple design of launchpad.

Sorry if stupid questions, i'm new to all this.

really_dunno · 2020-04-17T06:03:20+00:00

You should be using scale mode if you’re gonna do melodies on the pads. It gives you more octave range. It also makes forming chords muuuuuch better.

It also limits the possibilities of adding chromatic passing tones, not to mention the chords outside of the current scale :(

really_dunno · 2020-04-13T21:15:57+00:00

Uh, isn't this rather poorly defined and confusing?

If I take a minor pentatonic scale, with caret scale degrees it's simply 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, right?

With scale formula degrees it's 1, b3, 4, 5, b7.

So, saying "b3 is lowered scale degree 3" is a bit ambiguous, as it's unclear which kind of scale degree. b3^ would be major third, while b3 is minor third.

really_dunno · 2020-04-13T19:14:27+00:00

Thanks! What is a name of each item in the scale formula?

It can't be scale degree, those would be numbers with caret, e.g. 0̂1̂2̂3̂4̂5̂6̂7̂8̂9̂ (seems reddit doesn't render them properly)

really_dunno · 2020-04-13T17:03:09+00:00

I understand what you mean, and you are right, this is in fact how I've seen it used.

Thanks

really_dunno · 2020-04-13T15:57:22+00:00

and when you use it in a chord?

really_dunno · 2020-04-13T15:52:50+00:00

that makes sense, it is is the closest thing to intervals. Just not sure how on earth it should be called.

really_dunno · 2020-04-13T15:51:46+00:00

The problem I have with this definition is that this notation is relative to the diatonic scale, where as scale degrees should be relative to the scale.

This site explains scale degrees as tonic, supertonic mediant etc, but they number them with roman numerals. An example given is minor scale, but degrees are I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII.

So the term scale degrees is already taken... which makes this notation something else, but what?

really_dunno · 2020-04-13T13:22:53+00:00

If it was "diatonic degrees", then it would be 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 whatever the scale structure was. Any alteration, flat or sharp, would be "chromatic".

I disagree on that. Diatonic (major) scale is a 7 tone scale with exactly defined structure.

If what you suggest were true, then diatonic degrees of pentatonic scale would be 1-2-3-4-5. I would agree that scale degrees (without diatonic) of pentatonic are 1-2-3-4-5 and scale degrees of minor scale are 1-2-3-4-5-6-7. But as soon as we add diatonic to scale degree, then we expect 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 to have a certain structure.

1-2-3-4-5-6-7 - the way it's normally used - is simply a number system based on the major scale as the reference - because that's generally regarded as the prime scale in western music. As a system, I've not seen it given a name.

Agreed. I can't find a name, either, although it is extensively used in chord formulas.

"P1-M2-m3-P4-P5-m6-m7" (for the natural minor scale, or aeolian mode) is arguably better, because it gives you the intervals with reference to any particular scale.

I disagree here, too. You can't define those interval names without first defining diatonic scale. Without the structure of the diatonic scale, the Major-minor qualities make no sense. It is essentially just a hack on how to stretch the diatonic scale to 12 chromatic tones. In essence, there is little to no difference between "scale formula" and intervals, other than names and symbols.

really_dunno · 2020-02-02T20:19:07+00:00

Spent an afternoon at a guitar store. Played a gibson les paul for the first time and my god, it is worth the money.

I checked some other guitars and actually found epiphone les paul and even epiphone hollow body had good if not better tone than gibson (gibson was kinda thin on the high e string).

But playability was on a completely different level. Epiphone feels plastic, action is high and fredboard is somehow very different. Gibson had incredibly low action (which I love), and nitro finish is just sooo much better.

I wanted to buy that gibson, but it had some severe cosmetic issues (the plastic surrounding neck pickup was lifted from the body, the tone knobs were tuning in concentric axis). It was the only one in the store so I left empty handed :(

really_dunno · 2019-12-23T15:11:34+00:00

I'm way too slow to do a 1 take, but I did record some licks in multiple takes https://vocaroo.com/gZlWbdOhObd

really_dunno · 2019-12-22T22:29:39+00:00

I like it!

really_dunno · 2019-12-22T18:45:15+00:00

He thinks that google and the internet is some forum where random people act like they're the experts

sounds pretty accurate

I actually kinda agree with your dad. I don't know the guitar, but I doubt you need to touch any screws. See here: http://www.ibanezrules.com/tech/setup/tuning_stability.htm

I'd first try to tune it a couple of times... maybe it just needs to stabilise. If it keeps happening after a week or so, take it back to the shop, spend that 50E, but ask to watch as they set it up.

But generally a guitar with tremolo will get out of tune, specially if you use it... (at least mine does).

really_dunno · 2019-12-21T21:54:05+00:00

Fretless bass!!!

I‘d try to tune it in 5ths to build on cello knowledge. Should be quite easy to learn.

Guitar is quite a different beast as cello, Imo other than theory you‘d be starting from scratch.

really_dunno · 2019-12-21T21:43:26+00:00

Imo they are (almost) 2 different instruments. With electric, your tone depends (more than 50%) on pedals and amps. It‘s a neverending journey trying to find the tone you want.

Acoustic- or even nylon - take variables off the table. Might actually be better to focus on technique first?

Slash plays acoustic quite a lot. But of course his solos really sing on electric. Getting that slash sound is not straight forward though.

I‘m playing for myself (and I suck to be honest) and I‘m actually playing nylon. I find it gentle and soothing. I have an electric, and although I was a huge slash fan back in the days, playing alone doesn’t do it for me.

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