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One other aspect of this 'Melodic Structure Versus Function' thing that really fascinates me is this: If I pick any one of the 144 Intervals on the Tonal Gravity Chart, and play it by itself, it’s just a Melodic ‘Sound’ or ‘Shape’. Like I mentioned in the last post, I don’t think that an acapella me...

The one thing that I've found to be most valuable when working with the Tonal Gravity Interval Chart (the 144 possible interval types found within a Lydian Chromatic Scale) is this: Making a distinction between the SHAPE of the melody (the individual ‘note to note’ movements) and the FUNCTION of the...

@guitarjazz, the interview is from 'The Black Perspective in Music', Vol. 2, No. 1, published in the Spring of 1974. I found it here a while ago: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1214151?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (at the time I first found it, this 12 page interview/article was a free download, but it...

One other thing, regarding 'only melody can be horizontal, and not a chord progression'. From an interview with George in 1974: "I think it's of the utmost importance to reveal all that The Concept can do. I don't know of any organization of musical thought that takes in Bach and Schoenberg and...

@Chesper, As far as 'only melody can be horizontal, and not a chord progression', I would say that the closest thing to a purely 'Horizontal Progression' would be a series of PMG Chords that share the same Lydian Tonic. Like D min 7 (with the possible addition of 9, 11 ,13) from F Lydian, as PMG VI ...

I had a student today who is taking a Theory class in his High School, and was asking about ‘consonance’ versus ‘dissonance’ in a chord progression. Our discussion was based on what I view to be the most important distinctions between Vertical Gravity and Horizontal Gravity (at least in relation to ...

Poking around on the web, I came across this article from guitarist Eric VanDuyne, who studied LCC with Ben Schwendener at the New England Conservatory. Eric wrote: "PAN MODAL IMPROVISATION" An application of the Law of Resolving Tendencies can be used to achieve pan tonic effects in a sta...

I was talking to one of the other guitar instructors that I work with about the LCC, and he said (to my total surprise), "Yeah, when I was student at Berklee back in the mid 80's, George came and taught a special class on LCC that I took." After picking his brain about it a bit, he said he...

This is fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wyXL36PDQ

Great reply Chris! One of my favorite theory teachers (who turned me on to LCC years ago) gave me an exercise that was very similar to what you mentioned with Autumn Leaves - using only a handful of voicings (from Lyd, Lyd Aug, Lyd Dim) to play over an entire tune. It really reinforced one of the im...

@Anatole, exactly. An example I always use with my guitar students is the first 4 bars of Coltrane's "Naima". I have them play these voicings: Db Maj7 (voiced Ab Db F C) Gb Maj7 (voiced Gb Bb Db F) A Maj7#11 (voiced A C# D# G#) G Maj7#11 (voiced G B C# F#) Ab Maj Add 9 (played in First Inv...

@Bob, thank you! I try to speak up only when I feel like I might be able to add to the conversation :) @Fer, when you say "like an inversion of Badd9#5", this was a point that I had raised a few posts back: sometimes it's easier to view a specific voicing as just an inversion of a more com...

A few more options to consider for the Db11b5 chord: (I'm using Secondary Modal Genres here, so the Numerals are going to seem a bit odd... and once again, none of these will give you ALL of your chord tones as well as the 'implied' Major 3rd that you're looking for, but at least you can see/hear wh...

There is one really important thing that I found in the LCC when dealing with these situations (and voicings): When George talks about finding which scale contains the 'Prime Color' of a chord. Once you have established the location of a chord (the Primary Modal Genre of the chord), you then look at...

Seeing how nobody here wants to acknowledge the elephant in the room...

Without the continuing contributions of Motherlode, this forum has become completely stagnant. I haven't been here for months, and after visiting today, I remembered why.