Re: Pentatonic patterns

On 02 Aug 2007, "E=Fb" <abc@xxxxxxx> wrote in alt.guitar.beginner:


"Charmed Snark" <snark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 02 Aug 2007, "Lumpy" <lumpy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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E=Fb wrote:

Does Al Silverman ring a bell?

If he's that guy I see every December outside
Home Depot, I'd like to smash that freakin' bell of his.


Lumpy

Aren't you that guy in the red suit? ;-)

Snark.

No but we had a guy here named Al Silverman who tried to push his
system on us and tell us to quit fooling with the ancient theory.
It's the same BS as with the cypher system.

It's all intervals no matter how you name it. :)

Of course, theory is just some written ways to describe what we've
learned about the complexity of creating/representing music. But I
have say that a "new system" doesn't add any value if it is only
different. It would have to be an order or magnitude easier or
better in some way to get everyone else to change to that "new
system".

Otherwise there is greater advantage to sticking with what everyone
else knows and communicates with. Like why talk French when everyone
is conversing in English? (some Canadian humour there)

A real life example is in electronics. Diagrams are always written
with the electron flow (the arrows) going from + to - (as Ben
Franklin thought it did). Of course, physics tests eventually
revealed that electrons move from - to +. Well, they could have went
to a new system of diagrams, but after much discussion, the decision
was made to stick with the present "system", and just recognize that
the physics of the situation is reversed. In practice, it really
made no difference which way the arrow pointed, as long as everyone
agreed on the convention.

And that's the crux of it -- agreement for communication.

Now academics like to sit around and consider other ways to do
things, and this is well and good (somebody should do that).

However, if the new way is not sufficiently better, than it is just
an acedemic exercise and best not pushed on the masses. ;-)

Snark.

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