Re: Music Theory Question

I thought I was done and I won't continue the discussion itself, however I
do want to explain myself regarding your comments.


I never said any such thing. I wasn't even talking about how you sound.
That was not the discussion. You are shifting the goalposts.

Since you has nuance I am reading you as meaning Me Lon Smith as opposed to
a generic you. If so I did not say, imply or feel that you were somehow
impuning my ability to play. I just claimed that I am not stupid enough to
think that Eb would sound good over E in any universe and I while I didn't
specifically say it, I do feel that Lumpy, since it was him not you that
challenged this, was just being difficult because it is unlikely he thinks I
was saying that it would!


I also said I focus on chord tones and other things too when I play.

Listen, Lon, I don't appreciate you deliberately misrepresenting what I
say on this group. It's dishonest and you are playing dirty.

I wasn't playing dirty and I am sorry that you misunderstood what I was
trying to get across. I was careful to state that "I interpret John B. as
implying..." which was thoughtfully intended to indicated that you DID NOT
say these things directly, but it was how I interpretted your statements. I
looked back and while I may have missed it, I never saw the "focus... on
other things." in any of your comments. I was trying very hard not to be
playing dirty, especially when I was being challenged to make an Eb minor
sound good over an E minor which IMO was an asinine and misleading attack by
Lumpy. I was also meant to indicate, but probably forgot to continue in my
thoughts, that while I believe that attention to the chords without
consciousness of the root does a weak solo make, I doubt that you actually
would do this even though your perevious posts do not say otherwise.

I say the G major (or any major) has root, major second, minor third,
perfect fourth, perfect fifth, major sixth, major seventh and root. The
E minor has root, major second, minor
third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, minor sixth, minor seventh and
root. I believe it is equally obvious that these two scales are not the
same.

That's only from an analysis point of view of intervals from different
notes within the scale. But all those intervals exist exactly the same in
the G major scale. You can analyze the intervals from each of the 7 notes
in the scale.

But they are all still exactly the same. Same chords, same notes. It's how
you use the notes and the chords or arpeggios while you play that are
important.

To say to people if they 'think' G major scale when they are playing in E
minor that they will sound bad is just not true.






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