you first learn about forms in html and there basically useless until you have a backend set up. so i was trying to learn php and that was such a headache just getting everything installed. setting up a server and installing sql. then learning about form validation and security ufdshjkf so much to learn just to get a simple form setup. I get that its worth it to take your time and dig in deep so you don't get hacked or spammed.
I was looking at the MPCs 4 x 4 pads. got me thinkin 4 x 2 = 8 thats an octave in 1 key. 12 for semitones most of the time you don’t even use all those anyway though. 3 major keys, 3 minor nobody uses the diminished.
All the 251s in all 12 keys
1/3 of all 12 keys
2
5
1
6
4
Cm7
F7
Bbmaj7
Gm
Ebmaj7
C#m7
F#7
Bmaj7
Abm7
Emaj7
Dm7
G7
Cmaj7
Am7
Fmaj7
Ebm7
Abm7
C#maj7
Bb-7
F#maj7
2/3 of all 12 keys
2
5
1
6
4
Em7
A7
Dmaj7
Bm7
Gmaj7
Fm7
Bb7
Ebmaj7
Cm7
Abmaj7
F#m7
B7
Emaj7
C#m7
Amaj7
Gm7
C7
Fmaj7
Dm7
Bbmaj7
3/3 of all 12 keys
2
5
1
6
4
Abm7
C#7
F#maj7
Ebm7
Bmaj7
Am7
D7
Gmaj7
Em7
Cmaj7
Bbm7
Eb7
Abmaj7
Fm7
C#maj7
Bm7
E7
Amaj7
F#m7
Dmaj7
4x 4 is 16 haha
its not 12 thats great news
that means you get off easy …this time
less to memorize.
when i was looking at those pads on drum machine I was thinking what if each one was a 2-5-1.
The Byzantine Scale Chords
Major, Augmented
Major, Minor, Diminished
Major, Minor, Augmented
Min, Diminished, Sus2
N/A
Augmented
N/A
the scale in C
c
c#
e
f
g
g#
b
its a 7 note scale just like the major scale: c, d, e, f, g, a, b.
how to get to it from major
flat the 2 and the 6.
“another name for byzantine is double harmonic major”
instead of thinking of the 6 I just think of the cycle of 5ths and restart my frame of reference half way up to only see the 2s relative to the first half of the scale its less to think about that way.
i just think of it as phrygian on top of phrygian.
the whole half diminished scale is the closely related octatonic cousin of the byzantine.
c
c#
eb
e
f#
g
a
a#
drawn to the symmetry. I was messing around with diminished and like the harmonic potential of wh but i would always go back to this scale. taking away some of those notes just felt better to me.
wikipedia says…
Symmetry and balance
The double harmonic scale features radial symmetry, or symmetry around its root, or center note. Breaking up the three note chromaticism and removing this symmetry by sharpening the 2nd or flattening the 7th note respectively by one semitone yields the harmonic major and Phrygian Dominant mode of the harmonic minor scales respectively, each of which, unlike the double harmonic minor scale, has a full diminished chord backbone.
This scale (and its modes like the Hungarian minor scale) is the only seven-note scale (in 12-tone equal temperament) that is perfectly balanced; this means that when its pitches are represented as points on a circle (whose full circumference represents an octave), their average position (or “centre of mass”) is the centre of the circle.[6]
Got a great umbrella at Dollarama. was really solid all around except the flimsy aluminum cross beams that bent in the wind. No i'm not throwing it out. Put a splint on it now it kicks ass. I fixed it and its better than before. its almost too powerful. It wont crumple. its kind of like those dogs with titanium teeth. puts those 20$ umbrellas to shame.
The Clove Hitch
The trick to making a splint is to tie a midline clove hitch around the chopstick to start it off then wrap it multiple times, finishing it off with another clove hitch. and of course you want to do some overhand knots and singe the ends to prevent fraying. I used hi viz poly cord "guy line"
the above example is good for hanging stuff up. you can use it to attach stuff on carabiners.
Q: Why chopsticks? A: they came with bbq pork/ wood is good.
I got my chopsticks from the asian supermarket in jackson square. I was on a Sriracha quest but they didn't have. :(
Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017)[1] was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist and composer.
Holdsworth was known for his esoteric and idiosyncratic usage of advanced music theory concepts, especially with respect to melody and harmony. His music incorporates a vast array of complex chord progressions, often using unusual chord shapes in an abstract way based on his understanding of “chord scales”, and intricate improvised solos, frequently across shifting tonal centres. He used myriad scale forms often derived from those such as the Lydian, diminished, harmonic major, augmented, whole tone, chromatic and altered scales, among others, often resulting in an unpredictable and dissonant “outside” sound. His unique legato soloing technique stemmed from his original desire to play the saxophone. Unable to afford one, he strove to use the guitar to create similarly smooth lines of notes. He also became associated with playing an early form of guitar synthesizer called the SynthAxe, a company he endorsed in the 1980s.
he invented his own system for conceptualizing scales outside of regular music theory. hes on a whole other level. he visualizes the entire fretboard as one scale.
I came across him from marbinmusic’s channel I was looking up stuff on byzantine/double harmonic major/ modes of harmonic minor.
he looks like spagett.
* these 2 are of interest bc they both have a m6 or a m7b5 that can be built off them.
Visualizing it in C
Make a c dim triad (C,Eb,F#,A)
Now build 4 harmonic minor scales off of each of those root notes.
Sounds like 4 random keys
What do all these keys have in common?
A 7b9 chord on the 5
This chord can be spelled out rootlessly using 1 diminished chord, D dim (D,F,G#,B)
F dim, G# dim, B dim are all inversions.
In C the minor 1-5 Cm to G7b9
In Eb the minor 1-5 Ebm to Bb7b9
In F# the minor 1-5 F#m to C#7b9
In A the minor 1-5 Am to E7b9
The most Interesting thing is the Major7 that lives on the 6th degree of Harmonic Minor.
The Lydian #2 mode is so cool.
You’ve got these 4;
In Cm you’ve got Abmaj7
In Ebm you’ve got Bmaj7
In F#m you’ve got Dmaj7
In Am you’ve got Fmaj7
This is your new home, your new point of reference. Meet the neighbours.
A half step down you’ll find the 5 chord.
The Phrygian dominant: its like a mixolydian b2, b6 and of course b7.
But what’s so cool about that maj7 chord is its not just major 7
its also maj 6 AND minor 6.
And where theres minor 6s that means theres m7b5 because m6 inverted are the same as half diminished.
In Cm:
Abm6 = Fm7b5
Second degree: Locrian #6 is home to another half diminished.
In Cm: Dm7b5 = Fm6
The fm6 lives on the 4th mode: Ukrainian Dorian. What’s cool about this guy is you can add the 9 to get fm69.
So thats cool 4th mode has fm7b5 AND fm6 with a 9.
One last thing i wanna say is that in Cm, the abmaj7 you can flat the 5th. UNIQUE!
work these chords into your hands in close voice block chords.
Then once you’ve got that down you will be able to harmonize the harmonic minor scale by alternating between each of the different voicings and warping into the 3 other keys with the d diminished.
These are my diagrams for the other keys.
That’s visually how I think about it.
Harmonic minor doesn’t have a minor 6 chord on the one like melodic minor. I often like to borrow it anyway because I like the movement options it brings.
7th mode of melodic minor has more even sound imo
than the harmonic minors 7th mode.
These are some hand signals for musicians. My teacher told me he played with some jazz ppl who also had secret signals to modulate and alter chord quality. Highly skilled improvisers can really run with this.
Like a dashboard that combined your subscribed websites together into one page. Instead of manually bookmarking and visiting individual sites it automatically aggregated them for you before we had social media.
Benefit of rss
Maybe less addictive/brain damaging. The info isn’t filtered by a complex algorithm designed to keep you endlessly scrolling. It displays the newest articles on top and if you run out of articles that’s it.
>> an article about why google got rid of their rss reader.
With reddit now charging for their API people are pissed their favorite 3rd party readers aren’t working. Made me think of olden times.
How To Set up TT RSS
Newsboat - RSS in the Terminal
Rss on iphone
NetNewsWire is the app i chose to roll with. I like it’s dark theme. I like how you can make a widget on your Home Screen to show latest articles/ unread articles.
ive been thinking alot about the 6th mode of the harmonic minor scale lately.
that lydian sharp# sound. its so cool it can be diminished m6, minor maj7, major7, major 6. its got that phrygian kinda sound love recentering my whole world to revolve around it instead or the major key paradigm. love mapping out its alterations.
Thinkin bout those bebop scales
what is the passing tone for each?
dorian bebop = the major 3rd
melodic minor = the #5 (just like regular barry harris)
harmonic minor = the b7
dominant = natural 7
WH scale = good for diminished 7
1,2,b3,4,#4,#5,6,7,8
HW = 713b9
1,b2,b3,3,#4,5,6,b7,8
ALT = 1,b2,b3,3,#4,b6,b7,8
Thinkin bout those minor scales
what do they have in common? what sets them apart?
obviously they all have a minor third.
melodic minor is just major scale with a flat 3 its got a natural 7 so does
Harmonic minor again with the maj 7 also got b6
dorian phrygian aeolian all have b7
phrygian flat 2 obviously. also flat 6 b7
natural minor (aeolian) aeoli sauce. has flat 6 also like phrygian
okay so phrygian and aeolian have b6 and of course b7 and b3.
they can be ordered in sequence with each one having one more alteration than the last.
major scale: NOTHING!!
melodic minor: b3 = 1
dorian: b3,b7 = 2 = 2
aeolian: b3,b6,b7 = 3
phrygian: b2,b3,b6,b7 = 4
btw the font im using is redhat mono.
I like monotype fonts. reminds me of the terminal.
I like permanent marker . monotype fonts also remind me of the realbook. like something that was hammered out out a typewriter and then photocopied.
Now that I figured out how to use newsboat I am going to consider accessibility more. I love being able to read stuff in the terminal. bloggers editor is ugly as hell its like a flash bang. I got into using stack-edit to write in markdown bc it uses bloggers api. but what sucks are the changes aren't always synced up if you want to make some changes sometimes the main one is a few commits behind and its easy to save over a blog. its cool that is can be used with local storage but its annoying having to nuke it every time and pull down the latest changes because theres a welcome text file you gotta delete every time. its kind of stupid having to use a whole other website to edit a site. Thats what got me looking for other alternatives. Hugo markdown and github pages, although each one kind of has its own things going for it. Now that I know you can easily link youtube videos in a blogger post thats a huge plus. its kind of hacky to do that on gh pages. its a whole process.
How to get youtube videos on GH pages
take a screenshot
shrink the image. on iphone i think theres an app callred resizr? make it 320px
i use mweb to upload the image to imgur and grab the md link
make a link and put the image markdown inside where the text description would go
its like a russian nesting doll of markdown inside markdown.
markdownception.
all that just for yt video because gt doesn't do youtube iframe embedding. but yeah its cool that it can be done its just a whole lot of hassle. you really learn to appreciate it when you don't need to go to all that trouble and it just works.
BLACK SCREEN GOODNESS
as much as I love nice layouts and css. It gives you perspective when its all gone. A bare bones page in the terminal is wonderful. I tried to rassle with the blogger layout and didn't get too far with it even after I learned a bit of html css and javascript i figured they just don't give you that much freedom and i've kind of made peace with it and learned to cope. The github page i've gone all in on styling and its taken me away from what I was actually trying to say in the first place. I welcome this change. no bs-ing here. you couldn't do it if you tried and i like that.
that lets you cd into the new dir you just made
“this is what you would type to move from your desktop, make a new folder called music and cd into that folder.” cd desktop; mkdir music && cd$_
Targus Keyboard
I invested in a nice 100ish dollar keyboard once, Logitech Bluetooth one from Best Buy unfortunately lost it when I was sick. I had this stomach problem I felt like i needed to throw up but couldnt. Instead of sticking fingers down my throat I decided to drink… I dont usually even drink but I decided to go all in and planned my night around it. I bought groceries for my post puke recovery all these healthy foods. But then I blacked out in a park and woke up sleep walking down the street and my backpack was gone and so was my keyboard. I told this. To Nelson and he seed “ go get help go get therapy”.
Anyway I went to London drugs on grandville and found a sweet deal for this keyboard the “Targus Multi-platform Bluetooth AKB55TT” for 19.99$.
Its lightweight runs in AAA bats. V portable weighs nothing “ feels like I’m wearing nothing at all”.
Price and weight and BT are very important to me. I don’t wanna be carrying around a brick. My goal was to get the laptop typing experience with my phone. To replace my laptop because i cant live life worrying about a 2000$ MacBook getting stolen or rained on. I cant afford to keep loosing these keyboards. This one has served me wonderfully. In 2023 this is what i found at London drugs closest to the ol’ faithful. https://www.londondrugs.com/targus-compact-antimicrobial-multi-device-bluetooth-keyboard---black---akb862us/L1718763.html
There’s a similar clone on amazon I’ve seen floating around. Ive also seen a white model some Japanese knock off at value village.
It would be really sweet to have 300 bucks to blow on a keyboard with mechanical switches custom key caps.
It sucks loosing a keyboard. Especially a really nice one ugh. It’s been 4 years.
Ive been taking good care of my stuff.
Haven’t lost anything haven’t blacked out. It bugged me being told to go get help.
nobody’s around when you need them and i was doing my best to take care of myself i just went a little to far.
even if i didnt black out i was already against the idea of having an expensive thing that could be easily lost. I lost and it just depended me into the search for a disposable alternative. Just in case. Because everything is temporary. I didnt want to be heavily invested in something that had a monopoly over my ability to write, like my MacBook. Still got the MacBook, upgraded the battery, upgraded the phone battery too I take good care of my stuff.
Document
double column grids
Used to think blogger sucked. thought the html editor was ugly and lacked features. kind of like it now, just keep a tab with codepen open to generate some boilerplate and emmit. I like to put comments with emojis so i can find my way around better visually. One thing i didnt understand before was line wrapping in text editors. knowing when to break the line and why. my big breakthrough was when using this vim editor on iphone called buffer. Whats the point in using jk to go up down when you have arrow keys? Realized that arrow takes you up to the above text (like any normal editor) while j and k go to line numbers!!! So that can be really annoying untill you wrap your head around it. Its actually really great if you untrain yourself to stop pressing enter to manually break the line in between tags. I hated how they didnt go all in with the vim commands in buffer. its lacking the {} jumping)( vi} it was really bugging me but the good thing at least was that it forced me to get creative with moving around. using /? to jump to words because T and F dont work either which is brutal. at least It taught me some new tricks by trying to think how to get the motion i want by working backwards from the available commands in the manual. I never wouldve come up with that if my default choices were available. (idk if theres no rel line jump or i forgot to turn it on) at the time I thought gg23 was too much to type if i wanted to go down to 23 was trying b and w around but i got some good practise also with ^ $ 0 going to the start of the lines and entering in text with a and i. really getting to know the dif between the two especially when editing the beggining of a tag vs the end of a tag. I edited 20 articles, converting the headings and p tags from plain text to html. it really got me thinkin. really good vim drill. its those times where you really appreciate what vim can do for you. when you think about going back to the mouse afterwards its actually painfull.
Aww I broke it. Switching to the compose mode may lose a part of your content. once you go in too deep and save, you can't get out of html mode. and theres no live server live vscode. well I guess you can just keep ol trusty codepen going in another tab and just push the changes manually from time to time. that grid generator is also soo good. emmits got me feeling powerfull "div.links>a*2". yeah okay it kind of sucks a little bit that you your going in blind and if you break your code theres no going back but thats also part of the fun. "its not a bug its a feature". yeah thats still not good. probably just coping so hard I have no clue anymore I need to sleep. It was really good for a while though untill it broke and now theres a big gap a the top for no reason and I dont know how to get rid of it. is it my emojis? i hope not. maybe an unclosed tag somewhere. I think the emojis are a bunch of unicode symbols put together and maybe there spelling out something like blank space ampersand (n b s p). arrgs thats bugging me now. Theres this thing called "bike sheddding" where you waste a bunch of time on something less important when dividing up your time between tasks. something to be avoided. maybe this instance isnt that but it reminds me of that word I recently learned. losing the big picture getting hung up on details. And time goes on. thats the problem is being able to focus is a gift and a curse. some people cant focus at all. sometimes the best thing you can do is fold up your laptop and walk away from the computer to touch the grass. go outside get some sunlight. breathe the good air. go for a walk. thats where the real good ideas come from. no good ideas happen in front of a computer. its all from the walking around in the forest thats where real websites come from.
sandbox for the other blog to practise posting and try out ideas. build up that muscle memory.
codeblocks semi broken
blogger sanitizes inputs sometimes lines get stripped out of codeblocks which can be annoying at times.
but on the upside...
im now using highlight.js for syntax highlighting with a base16 gruvbox pale dark theme so they look nice at least!
