Recent content by esoomssab

Ha! I made the exact same upgrade! I've been playing it for almost a year now, and I absolutely love it. Next amp purchase will probably be Markbass as well, just because I love the 102P so much. Very impressed and zero complaints.

Navy Musician of 5 years here. About the felony drug charges, one of my friends was in line behind a guy at MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) who got accepted with waivers for drug charges. Don't know how serious or anything like that, but they definitely have waivers for things like...

Another thing to think about is the voicing - A guitarist hitting his C chord (x32010) is playing 2 Cs, 2Es, and a G - if you voiced an Am7 chord with that much emphasis on the 3rd and the 5th, it's not going to sound too very much like an Am7. The notes will be there, but it'll feel wrong.

Richard - As I learned it there are 3 augmented sixth chords but the German has two forms that sound the same. Relative to the tonic, the first German Augmented Sixth contains the b6, 1, b3, and #4 and the second contains the b6, 1, #2, #4 The Ger+6 in the first form can resolve to the...

I agree with mambo - many of these responses fall into that category of saying a bunch of words without actually saying anything. Groove, pocket, "selling it", etc. are all terms that people throw around when they want something different than what they're hearing, but can't put into words what...

I wasn't saying that a D7 would resolve to a d minor - I was making reference to the A7 mentioned previously - sorry that was unclear. In a modulation, pivot chords are chords that can be analyzed in both keys, and precedes the point of modulation. I may be incorrect (it's been quite some...

It seems to me you may be pigeon holing secondary dominants into one specific possible function. Modulation is by no means the only use for secondary dominants, in fact, I'd say that's far from their main use. For instance, in your first example, you say an A7 pops up in the key of C...

In my experience, a music degree is almost worthless. No one hires you for a gig because of a sheet of paper. I've heard plenty of college educated musicians (even from UNT, Berklee, NE Conservatory, etc.) who I would never hire or want to work with. That being said, the benefits are of...

Speaking of Flash cards - follow this link. http://www.musictheory.net/exercises/keysig/d999y It will drill you on major key signatures in both bass and treble clef - if you want to adjust it so that it doesn't do all of them, you can go to musictheory.net - click on exercises - and then key...

Treble clef definitely - and for people talking about getting Bb and Eb books too...those guys should be reading C parts. Just like bass players should read those melodies in treble clef. So it's a moot point, really. Treble clef C parts is the standard. If you just want material to help you...

Another reason to learn bass clef: The reason to learn to read and write music is literacy. We can share ideas with others. If you write all of your bass lines in treble clef, you're not communicating properly what you want anyone else to play/sing/hear. If you handed me a sheet of music...

The reason the secondary dominant is a useful "convention" is because it describes certain non-diatonic harmony appropriately. In a blues "idiom," the classification doesn't make sense, because the chords do not always have a dominant function and do not resolve "properly." If we were...

In a major key, the diatonic triads are what you listed, yes. I ii iii IV V vi vii(dim). So the answer to your first question is yes, all of these chords are in the key of the tonic. Any of these chords can also be made into diatonic seventh chords, which Febs charts out in his post. So...

To answer your second question, the major and minor pentatonic scales are related in the same way the major and natural minor scales are related. The minor scale is using the same notes as the major scale only a minor third down. Or you can look at it as a C major scale starting on the sixth...

First off, thanks to everyone so far, many of your responses have helped to kind of put me in my place with pigeon holing some people. Just saying scales and modes was probably a mistake on my part in the first post - the major and minor scales should probably be in the rotation for...