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by merlyn
Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:07 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

Most people who have a grudge against music theory don't bother with it and play by ear.
by merlyn
Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:25 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: Diatonic calling the conscious lexicon, over.
Replies: 5
Views: 9855

Re: Diatonic calling the conscious lexicon, over.

I thought you were talking about Jump By Van Halen.

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by merlyn
Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:54 am
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

F A# is a major third. So this is a minor augmented triad. If A# is the bass note, then this is a D+mi (or maybe Dmi+) in the second inversion. You may kick yourself but ... F A# is a fourth. F A is a major third. If it was F Bb you would have noticed. (D-Tuned take note -- this is what happens whe...
by merlyn
Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:14 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Recommended order for XRuns Troubleshooting?
Replies: 11
Views: 13760

Re: Recommended order for XRuns Troubleshooting?

If you have built in motherboard sound you could try starting JACK on that to rule out USB issues.
by merlyn
Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:52 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Recommended order for XRuns Troubleshooting?
Replies: 11
Views: 13760

Re: Recommended order for XRuns Troubleshooting?

I've got a Ryzen 3900x and my system is working well. I got it earlier this year and over the time I've had it the performance has improved. My explanation is that it's kernel updates and updates to amd-ucode . The 3900x came out in 2019. That implies it has taken the Linux kernel two years to fully...
by merlyn
Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:58 am
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

... I asked myself "how many accidentals are there and where do they fit"? The easy way to remember that is to remember there is a semitone between E and F, and B and C. Chromatic scale, chord base names, keys, whatever. For a chromatic scale I would use sharps on the way up : https://i.i...
by merlyn
Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:16 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

In an all-flats list for example it's easy to remember that the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th and last letter are flatted (1245). With the all-sharps list it's just as easy to remember that the 1st, 3rd, 4th and last-two are sharped (134L2). I have no idea what that means. Are you talking about key signatu...
by merlyn
Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:23 am
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

D-Tuned wrote: Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:52 pm Why aren't Db, Ab, Eb & Bb called C#, G#, D# & A# respectively?
Before I answer that you could tell us what the advantage is of doing everything with sharps.
by merlyn
Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:11 am
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

The two chords were meant to be an example of open triads. Is this clearer?

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Here's a longer example :

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Oopsie. You've got an F in the bass.
by merlyn
Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:03 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

When I first read about inversions (first impressions last!), I understood the definition to mean that in a 1st inversion the 3rd moves to bottom (middle E moves to bottom), whereas your interpretation (maybe the correct one) says that the 1st moves to top (low C moves to the top). A low E is the e...
by merlyn
Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:36 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

I suspect there is less to inversions than you think there is. Take this chord : https://i.ibb.co/84Nf7r8/CVclosed.png It's a closed voiced C and it contains all the inversions. Keeping the chord fingered play the lowest three strings : https://i.ibb.co/sWSKY7t/Croot.png and it's a root position tri...
by merlyn
Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:00 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

D-Tuned wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:38 pm yes, but i wrote 3-5-1 from the bottom up ...
When you make a boo-boo you're awful quick to blame music theory. 3 5 1 is a first inversion.
by merlyn
Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:11 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

I agree that you've done enough theory and it's time for some playing. :D Not only that, but the order of 3-5-1 isn't even provided for in triad inversions as far as I know (it's neither a 1st nor a 2nd triad inversion). 3-5-1 (from the top down) is an open triad. It's derived from a closed voiced 2...
by merlyn
Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:53 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

You might think I'm being a stickler. That's not my intention. If you get the basics down the rest is easier. OK, the inversion of chords does exist, I had only read up on triad inversions where the triad note that moves to the bottom defines that triad inversion. Why do you want inversions to go do...
by merlyn
Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:44 pm
Forum: Music Theory/Songwriting
Topic: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.
Replies: 88
Views: 124196

Re: RFC: Chords, guitar diagrams, and digital file-names.

There being no such thing as an inverted chord ... Where on earth did you get that idea? How can you think a triad is not a chord? ... no inversion per-se includes any note above or even outside the triad itself inside the chord. When you say "the triad" you mean the D triad. There are tw...