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assimilating this thread will take some further study; i had a little trouble remembering exactly what the original query was - oh yeah - bass lines. one thing about my perception of "bass lines in a LCC environment" is that it doesn't take long to conclude that the member scale used for t...

bob b, i most certainly agree with you in that my commentary regarding horizontal melody was not meant to imply, in the least, that horizontal melody resided in "the bastion of the unschooled" - what i was getting at was perhaps more subtle: that as a guitar player, it has become obvious t...

"It occurs to me, a forum neophyte, that experiential narrative may be off task. If so, forgive me. Years of weaving stories, music theory and philosophy until the Mohitos run out, is a tough pattern to break." - Bob B i can only speak for myself; however, it is my belief that without real...

it looks to me as if you are employing the Bb lydian chromatic scale as a CMG (conceptual modal genre) of the tonic F - there was a discussion of some length regarding this on a previous thread. i would consider using an F lydian chromatic scale in the situation you describe (i play this tune in a d...

i agree with bob: very cool. i guess one of my ponderings has to be: will the concept's contribution to music history be acknowledged by musicologists in the "larger" world in the long run as "radical" or "mainstream"? both? neither? i cannot help but feel that the plet...

i've noticed that the forum has not been active lately and i was hoping that it wasn't due to lack of interest. perhaps we're caught up in the back-to-school hullabaloo or just trying to salvage what's left of the ever so short summer season, but what the heck... i may be posing a ridiculous questio...

it is beginning to look as if there is some confusion as to exactly what CMG or "conceptual modal genre" and therefore, CMT or "conceptual modal tonic" are all about. i confess that i do not have an easy answer. since volume I seems specifically written as a detailed analysis of ...