| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Diminished Runs | | Date: | Monday, January 21, 2008 01:25:15 (-0800) | | From: | Tim Dawdy <beardvc @........com>
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Thank God! Someone spoke up and said it! Now I have something to
practice.
Tim Dawdy
On Jan 20, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Orville Johnson wrote:
> "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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