| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Diminished Runs | | Date: | Sunday, January 20, 2008 23:23:31 (-0800) | | From: | Orville Johnson <orvillej @.......net>
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"In Cmaj, the 4 is F. The 4# of C is F#maj?"
It would be good to learn the correct way of calling these intervals.
In G, C# is not called 4#, its called #4. That might help you
remember what's happening with the chord. It shows that you're not
doing something to the 4 chord to make it "sharp", you're moving on
to the next tone in the scale and building a chord on that. For
instance, other chord names you might hear bandied about are b5, b7,
#5, b3, etc.
All this music theory stuff is not that hard to learn. I often give a
workshop at music camps I teach at called Practical Music Theory. It
takes about an hour and I explain intervals, scales, and chord
construction. The amount of information I'm working with would
probably fill 3 to 4 pages. Whatever line of work you're in I'm sure
you've had things to learn and memorize that are far more demanding.
If you took the basic music theory course for a quarter/semester at
your local community college you might have to attend 6 or 8 classes
and you'd get all this stuff and more.
i'm a self-taught musician and didn't know a b3rd from a hole in the
ground for the first ten years or so I played and I was making a
living playing that whole time. You don't have to know this stuff to
play good music but I got frustrated hearing the guys I played with
speak this language and I wanted to know what they were talking
about. So i got a couple of books and luckily was able to ask
questions of some of the folks i played with who were trained. It is
helpful to know so stick with it and be assured it's not really that
tough, even though some math is required :)
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