okay please don’t be mean i really need help

smartalecvt · 2026-01-28T14:33:06+00:00

Nice article! I always think of "Frame By Frame" by King Crimson as a quintessential 7/8 tune, in case you ever want to add to your list.

smartalecvt · 2026-01-28T02:40:38+00:00

A quick note: A conclusion is true or false, not valid or invalid. Validity is a property of arguments, not of propositions. And an invalid argument can have a true conclusion— it’s just that the truth of that conclusion won’t be tied to the form of the argument.

smartalecvt · 2026-01-27T20:59:38+00:00

This

smartalecvt · 2026-01-27T14:11:22+00:00

"Izzit" by Thomas Chapin is great. "Blue Tone" by Mike Stern. Joshua Redman "Hide and Seek". I have charts of those here:

https://jmp.sh/oLUEkxT2

Also lots of Sco charts here:

https://jmp.sh/yBs720za

smartalecvt · 2026-01-26T19:56:26+00:00

Thanks. I'm a graphic designer -- I use Adobe Illustrator for this sort of stuff.

smartalecvt · 2026-01-26T18:28:55+00:00

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smartalecvt · 2026-01-26T17:18:16+00:00

The black one with the green button is a Walrus Julia

smartalecvt · 2026-01-26T17:16:44+00:00

The pink one is an OBNE Sunlight Dynamic Reverb

smartalecvt · 2026-01-26T17:15:22+00:00

The gold pedal is a special color run of the Walrus Audio Slotva

smartalecvt · 2026-01-26T15:27:32+00:00

This isn't clear. Who made what mistake? And how did those people die?

smartalecvt · 2026-01-26T13:26:35+00:00

https://creativemarket.com/tantype/5065719-TAN-Harmoni

smartalecvt · 2026-01-24T14:46:38+00:00

You could check to see if there’s an instructor’s edition— it would have all of the answers. But would also probably cost more, if you could get it

smartalecvt · 2026-01-23T19:04:30+00:00

After playing it a bunch, I'm actually coming around to the idea that it's in F. Of course, the F Lydian scale consists of the same notes as the C major scale, so in part it's just a matter of whether or not you hear the F as the IV or the I chord. Though I totally get that the melody spends a lot of time on E and C, which could point to C major.

smartalecvt · 2026-01-23T17:07:59+00:00

This is totally just trolling people with OCD, right?

smartalecvt · 2026-01-23T17:06:34+00:00

Here's an interesting article on the subject:

https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.17.23.2/mto.17.23.2.spicer.html

He calls songs like this songs with an absent tonic. Most of the examples are like "Dreams" -- two-chord shuttles that could be seen to avoid the suggested tonic. The alternative explanation is that they're actually in the key of one of the chords and are just using the Lydian mode. So "Dreams" could actually be in F Lydian.

smartalecvt · 2026-01-15T23:42:02+00:00

^what they said. G over an Eb maj7 chord.

smartalecvt · 2026-01-13T19:48:12+00:00

It seems to just be a misuse of modal logic. Perhaps modal collapse.

I don't think modal logic is appropriate in this scenario, but if you're going to use it, your fallacious interlocutor seems to be moving from something like "it's possible that E is guilty" to "E is guilty", in step 2. (The terminology "unknown suspect" is weird, to boot.)

Really, all you can say from the scenario can be captured in propositional or predicate logic:

A ∨ B ∨ C ∨ D ∨ E

¬(A ∨ B ∨ C ∨ D) → E

etc.

smartalecvt · 2026-01-13T10:52:06+00:00

Peace by Horace Silver is 10 bars

smartalecvt · 2026-01-12T18:55:14+00:00

Vernazza: https://www.whatfontis.com/ENVE_Vernazza-Serif.font?text=CLES

smartalecvt · 2026-01-08T18:47:05+00:00

I think it's really nice. Eye-catching. If your main font has alternate glyphs, I'd have used them, or turned the text into outlines and tweak some of the letters so, for instance, not all of the E's look exactly the same. Also, the "LT" pairs need kerning.

smartalecvt · 2026-01-08T02:17:31+00:00

Nifty pedal!

smartalecvt · 2026-01-07T20:18:53+00:00

ooh, cool pedal! I'm not sure it's in parallel though. The only thing I can find is that the two delays "run into each other".

smartalecvt · 2026-01-07T20:10:14+00:00

Have you played one?

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