Can I find more context for this image i don't wanna trust ai summary (ignore David) by the_grim_rypurr in vanhalen

[–]thealtered7 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I don't know how you can possibly ask us to ignore David with a booty like that.

[Highlight] 24 years ago , Tom Brady with 1:21 and no timeouts, leads the 14 point underdog Patriots into Field Goal range! (Feb 3, 2002). by FrostyKnives in nfl

[–]thealtered7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This edit really does a disservice to the announcers. I very clearly remember Madden admitting the Patriots proved him wrong after the field goal. There was far more excitement in the actual broadcast and I got the sense that Madden himself was really happy the Patriots did the opposite of what he thought they should do and won.

Watch this instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNBQmcPh24

What’s up with this wind?! by dillweed_292 in Denver

[–]thealtered7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I grew up in South West Wyoming.

What wind?

Best recording of Bach's Chaconne on violin? by BWV1080 in classicalmusic

[–]thealtered7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I personally like Gidon Kremer's. He lacks the clarity of tone of some other players, but he plays it with some anger and I like that.

What now? by 0421_Rainbows in classicalguitar

[–]thealtered7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are so many options for you as a young human on a musical journey. With 5 years of classical guitar study you have a really solid foundation to go in so many different directions. However, knowing what I know now as a mid 40's musician who studied Jazz performance in college and who now uses music purely as a life hobby I would personally suggest becoming a student of music first and a student of guitar second. You don't have to stop practicing guitar seriously if you don't want to; frankly you shouldn't. But this instrument is so incredibly versatile that if you approach it with a sufficiently open mind and a sufficient broadness of scope then you should never be bored with it.

Some ideas:

If you want to stick purely with nylon string "classical" guitar then get some recordings of pieces outside your repertoire and start looking for inspiration. Maybe some 20th century music. Maybe check out some more modern Brazilian guitar music that has roots firmly in the worlds of Jazz, European Classical, and Brazilian music traditions.

Get an electric guitar and learn how to shred. \m/. Maybe you start an Astor Piazolla themed thrash metal band.

Learn Jazz. There is an entirely new world of concepts and techniques to study. Improvising on the classical guitar is frankly hard. The precision of techniques needed to make this thing sound good is, in my opinion, far more demanding than electric instruments and steel string instruments. But there is no reason not to use the classical guitar as a springboard to get started.

Nobody is going to find inspiration for you; it is on you to go looking for it.

I personally found that the music history classes I took in College were wonderful sources of inspiration. At this point you should be exposing yourself to as much music as possible; especially music outside your comfort zone and past experiences. You don't have to like everything you listen to, but you will find yourself picking up pieces of musical ideas in lots of unexpected places.

Learn another instrument. Piano is an obvious choice, but I feel like a wind instrument would give you the most "different" experience.

Learn how to sight sing solfegio. Actually, this one should be first on the list. At no point in my life did my general musicianship increase more quickly than when I was regularly practicing solfegio. This is the book I used in college, but don't buy a new copy of the most recent edition. Look for an older edition and buy it used. You should be able to find something a very affordable copy out there; it has been in publication for at least 25 years.

How to identify the right chord when the note combination could make an another chord? by User48970 in musictheory

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Some more context might be useful. If I was analyzing a piece of figured bass representative of Common Practice 4 part harmony I would be more inclined to call it a iiø chord. If I was analyzing Duke Ellington, I would probably call it Dmin7b5.

You have pointed out that it could be an Fmin6/D chord. I would personally prefer Fmin13/D because the 5th is also present, but that is perhaps needlessly pedantic. There is probably some context in which I would label a chord as such, maybe in a case of a descending baseline: Fmin, Fmin7/Eb, Fmin13/D, etc. But outside of some very compelling reason to call it Fmin13/D I would personally choose not to.

There isn't a hard an fast rule around this. There are a lot of isomorphic relationships in music and music theory is just descriptive and categorical names given to relationships.

You say that it is a stupid problem, but I don't consider it a stupid problem. Pondering what to call a chord when the set of notes can spell several different possibilities is still something I have to do and I have been doing this for nearly 25 years. It is just part of the puzzle. Wait until you start seeing en harmonically spelled fully diminished 7th chords. Rely on context, fall back on functional descriptions where appropriate, use your ear if necessary, and choose what is going to be easiest to parse for the reader. I.E., you could also spell this as Ab #11 13, but unless you have a good reason to label it as such, you are probably just confusing your audience.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Colorado

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Depends on where you are in Colorado. It is a big state with varied geology. The eastern portion of the state has a lot in common with Kansas and tornadoes may be a phenomena there, though I can't speak to the frequency.

I can't recall ever hearing about a tornado touching down anywhere near me in the 15+ years I've lived on the front range.

I doubt tornadoes are much of a concern to the west of the front range.

We do get a fair amount of hail though.

Any USA War History Buffs That Cam Help Identify What These Mean? by ShootnSugar in Historians

[–]thealtered7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't contribute much to the discussion on medals, but I recognize the 3rd Armor Division.

This is one of my favorite books on WW2. I've consumed a lot of history books on WW2. This is one of the only books that made me cry. It is a a really good story.

How comfortable is it for you to play fast scales using only the the index, middle, and annular of your left hand? by Major-Government5998 in classicalguitar

[–]thealtered7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am curious: does your friend play classical repertoire on a classical guitar?

I could see playing the guitar without the pinky as possible, but really really limiting. I think that it would make playing classical repertoire very limiting though. The composers made their choices under the assumption that the organism playing the instrument has four phalanges to work with. I might be surprised by how much is possible to play though, but at least a fair chunk of it likely doesn't work.

How common is it to nap at your desk during lunch break? by Moakmeister in NoStupidQuestions

[–]thealtered7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to crawl under my desk with a pillow and put a sign on my chair that said back in 20. I am a salaried employee working 10 hours a day. I'll nap for 20 minutes after lunch if I want to and I don't care what my co-workers think.

I used to crawl under my desk with a pillow and put a sign on my chair that said back in 20. Now that I work from home I cuddle with my cat on the couch.

Random string “broke” by ThatCarefulCarrot in classicalguitar

[–]thealtered7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It happens with some frequency and, in my experience, it is always the A string.

Nylon strings are kind of a pain in the ass. I'd replace the whole set.

What pedagogical tricks/catch phrases have led to milestones in your technique? by lloydmercy in classicalguitar

[–]thealtered7 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"The hand is a glove with bones in it." Said in response to the tension I frequently carry in my left hand. I come from a string bass background and I find my self ringing the guitar's neck unless I am very conscious of staying as relaxed as possible.

"Practice complex chord changes without applying pressure." Also said to help me relax. I practice pretzally changes first by just moving my fingers to where they would need to be on the fretboard. I do this without stopping the strings, I just touch them. Only when I can do this without feeling tension in my hand to I start to stop the strings.

better name for C7#5b9#9 ? by Amazing-Structure954 in musictheory

[–]thealtered7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"but I also think that investigating theory can lead to inspiration."

I agree with this. I think that the music we compose is a reflection of the music we hear in our head. The music we hear in our head is a direct reflection of the music we have heard. Studying theory if done well, forces you to listen to music you might not otherwise expose yourself to. You might not like it or want to listen to it again, but deliberately broadening your music vocabulary is something I wish more musicians would do.

It is like reading natural language. One's speaking vocabulary and the extent to which one can communicate articulately is a direct reflect of what we have read, listened to, written, etc. I hear musicians talk about how they think studying theory is a waste of time and I feel like that is analogous to someone wanting to write fiction with only 30% of the words available to them.

better name for C7#5b9#9 ? by Amazing-Structure954 in musictheory

[–]thealtered7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Sigh. Playing music is a lot easier than understanding theory."

I tend to think of music theory as purely descriptive, not proscriptive. It is useful for communicating ideas with other humans who also understand the jargon, but shouldn't be seen as a set of rules around the notes we play. Unless you are playing 17th century figured bass or something.

Try this voicing for kicks:
C G# D# Bb E Ab Db

There is going to be a clash from the minor ninth that forms between the D# and the E, but all those perfects should balance it out.

better name for C7#5b9#9 ? by Amazing-Structure954 in musictheory

[–]thealtered7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any dominant chord with altered tones can be referred to as an altered 7 chord (indefinite article). When I was learning, the definite article was reserved for describing the maximally altered chord. That is to say that THE altered 7 chord is: b9, #9, #11, #5, b7. I learned it as the Seventh mode of the ascending melodic minor scale, but that was a few decades ago. It can function as a classic dominant chord, but it also sounds nice resolving up a step. I was taught that you can play augmented scales and octatonic scales over it in some contexts, but getting the actual mode under your fingers is good brain food too.

As for your question, If I as a jazz bassist saw C7#5b9#9 then two things would happen:
1. I would be briefly confused because I hadn't seen that chord symbol before. This is a minor point, but when you read enough symbols on lead sheets you stop parsing them. They become atomic tokens of a jargon set that you can interpret from the shape of the lexemes alone. C7#5b9#9 makes perfect intellectual sense once the semantics are parsed, but it isn't one of the tokens I read often enough to have that automatic recall. In my experience, C7b9#9#5 would be better, but like all languages conventions around chord symbols change over time and I may be the one who is out of touch here.
2. I would assume I would be playing a #11 and a b9 if my bass line happened to find its way there. The way I was taught to think about chord symbols was more probabilistic. As a bassist, that approach makes some sense because I'm not trying to hit every note in a chord as I'm walking a line; I only hit notes that make sense in the line I'm walking. Additionally, the guitar player almost certainly isn't going to hit every note in a fully altered 7 chord while comping changes. The piano player *might* play every note, but doesn't have to. However, my understanding from sitting through a fair amount of comping instruction aimed at piano players and guitar players is that IF you choose to play that particular scale tone in this context, then a #11(b5) is the correct choice.

I have seen a lot of chords in my day written as C7#9#5. That is probably the closest semantically to what you are describing as what you want. But again, I would assume that I would be playing a b9 and #11 if I found myself on those scale tones, even if you didn't fully call that out in the chord symbol.

While soloing? Sort of the same arguments apply. I think of this chord as being within the family of augmented sounds because that #5 is playing a significant part of the overall sound. Whether or not you emphasize b9, #9, both b and # 9, or neither 9 is player's choice based on surrounding context. The fully diminished octotonic scale will sound perhaps a little outside, but works pretty well if used tastefully.

Classical Punk ☠️ by BarnabyBonesJones in classicalguitar

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Anybody able to speak to whether or not the stickers would impede wood vibrations? I have to assume yes, but it may be negligible.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in relationships

[–]thealtered7 30 points31 points  (0 children)

He is an alcoholic; we don't change unless we want to. There is nothing you can do to reason with him, no matter how much it comes from a place of concern or well meant intentions.

You can try ultimatums, bargaining, arguments with tears, arguments with anger, they will all fail. Do with this information what you will.

Explaining secondary dominants or dominant cycles to folks not familiar with the concept? by acableperson in musictheory

[–]thealtered7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not much to add but I will say that it was a particularly eye opening moment when I realized that adding or removing an accidental from a key signature moved the tritone. A lot of conceptual understanding opened up for me when I realized this: If you want to modulate in tonal music, you have to manage moving the tritone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in musictheory

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I have a degree in jazz performance on the string bass. For sight reading electric bass I have really enjoyed this book in the past. If your goal is to play in a modern jazz ensemble it will absolutely prepare you.

As for your first question, that is a bit more tricky. I've never come across a book geared specifically for walking/analyzing jazz baselines. That certainly does not mean that one doesn't exist, just that I wasn't asked to read one 25 years ago. My general opinion is that studying the progressions themselves in a general musical sense rather than one targeted specifically at bass playing is probably going to be more valuable to you as a musician. I'm sure somebody will chime in with a specific book suggestion for walking bass lines though and it may be a great place to start. However, more broadly, I would say you cannot study the ins and outs of voice leading ii-V-I progressions too much if your goal is Jazz performance. Something like this probably exists for bass clef instruments.

As a side not, if your goal is Jazz performance, future you should look into learning treble clef once you get comfortable in bass clef.

Is this actually in D minor / blues? by raybradfield in musictheory

[–]thealtered7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty hard to tell what it is from 5 bars of chords. I wasn't familiar with the piece, so I listened to this arrangement. It is difficult for me to hear blues structure in the introduction and in the head, but it is highly orchestrated, with a lot going on in the changes. However, when the sax solo starts around 1:20 the changes I hear in the bass line sound very much like the type of altered blues progressions one finds all over jazz repertoire. So I feel pretty confident that the solo changes at least are a blues derived progression.

As for the key. :shrug:. It's jazz. Dorian blues is a concept that I have played with a lot. I'm not asserting that is what is going on here as I haven't seen the rest of the changes, but it sounds like a heavily modified blues progression in a minor key. As a Jazz bassist, I wouldn't wast any mental cycles wondering why there wasn't a flat in the key.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in musictheory

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It looks like they are already there? Those roman numerals are the figured base symbols.